Category: Science

As a Sun-type star age, it begins to swell until it becomes a red giant. When it nears the end of its life, the star finally expels its outer layers of gas, losing up to 80% of its mass. It leaves behind only a dense core, a corpse of a star called a “white dwarf”. […]

Seven billion years ago, two huge black holes came together to become one. The latter would be of intermediate-mass, an “elusive” class of object. LIGO (United States) and VIRGO (Italy) are the two largest gravitational wave detectors in the world. In September 2015, these two instruments detected their first ripples in the fabric of space-time: […]

Just minutes after the two American astronauts landed on Sunday, several pleasure boats gathered around the capsule. NASA and SpaceX intend to put in place the necessary means to prevent this from happening again. You may have followed him live. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley landed this Sunday off Florida, successfully closing the Demo-2 mission. […]

On July 14, 2015, the US probe New Horizons approached Pluto within 12,500 kilometers, capturing incredible views of the most famous of the dwarf planets. Demoted and reclassified as a dwarf planet since 2006, Pluto (2,372 km in diameter) and its moon Charon evolve more than six billion kilometers from Earth. The same year, NASA […]

Famous American actor Tom Cruise wants to shoot a film in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA will collaborate on this project and said it is delighted, intending at the same time to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists. NASA behind the project L’Espace, a subject that still arouses public passion. […]

The famous auction company Christie’s has been offering for a few days to buy a lunar meteorite named NWA 12691, found two years ago in the Sahara Desert by an anonymous researcher. With its 13.5 kilograms on the scale, this extraterrestrial stone is “the fifth-largest piece of the Moon ever found on Earth,” read the […]

If you’re a lover of NASA missions, Casio has unveiled a space mission-themed wristwatch that, while out of stock right now, promises new batches of units over the next few weeks. There are many wristwatches that try to be inspired by space events, but Casio’s association with NASA is unique and that is why it […]

Due to the incessant fires that have occurred in recent days, a dense layer of smoke has covered much of the country’s skies, which was evidenced by satellite images captured by NASA. The National Aeronautics Administration of Space (by its acronym in English NASA), showed an image that shows how the smoke covers the department […]

Yesterday a team of astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, tumbling into a world very different from the one they left. Cosmonaut Oleg Skrypochka and astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan successfully landed near the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 05:16 UTC on Friday, […]

The Artemisa project includes the construction of a camp for four astronauts. It would be the first step and then replicate it on Mars. NASA is developing a plan to create a base at the moon’s south pole. The idea is to be able to build a camp there so that astronauts can stay for […]