Category: Science

This is the clearest photo ever taken of our neighboring planet. The NASA Curiosity rover captured with its powerful cameras the sharpest photograph ever taken of the planet Mars. It is an image composed of more than 1,000 photographs put together. The final product has more than one thousand eight hundred million pixels of resolution. […]

The first official results of the Insight mission, published by NASA, confirm that Mars is seismically active. But it’s a different seismicity from Earth. After just over 480 million kilometers traveled, the American probe Insight successfully landed on Monday, November 26, 2018 on the surface of Mars. The real heart of this mission was to […]

Within days, a team of biologists had identified fewer than 55 blue whales in the coastal waters around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia (UK). Unheard of since the end of the commercial hunt. Decimated at the start of the last century, blue whales then took advantage of the ban on their capture in 1966 […]

A ship of the US space agency managed to detect the natural processes in the north pole of the planet. With the help of the Mars Recognition Orbiter, NASA captured evidence of the collapse of the polar ice sheet of Mars. The HiRISE camera, installed in the device, which orbits the red planet since 2006, […]

Understanding how space travel affects the human body is the goal of India with its humanoid robot Vyommitra. This feminine-looking robot will travel through space between December 2020 and June 2021. A female humanoid robot in space As the Indian daily The Tribune explains in an article published on January 22, 2019, the Indian Space […]

Spain and part of southern France have experienced a very significant weather phenomenon in recent days. Two departments were placed on meteorological red alert and several deaths were deplored in Spain. The storm caused heavy gusts and unleashed the sea, generating waves up to 14 meters high in places, torrential rain and an invasion of […]

NASA is exploring new technologies to build mushroom houses. These types of structures could be a sustainable solution to generate homes on Earth as well as on Mars and other planets. Yes, that sounds so futuristic, like living on other planets today seems to be getting closer. Proof of this are the advances and investigations […]

Research suggests that some volcanoes on Venus may still be active today. Eruptions could even have occurred just a few days ago. Besides Earth, Io (Jupiter’s moon) is the only known object in the solar system to host active volcanoes. However, there are indications that Venus may also be affected. It would not be so […]

Researchers studied small T-Rex fossils and finally concluded that they were young dinosaurs. It all started in 1946 with the discovery of the skull of a small T-Rex in the Hell Creek formation, in Montana (United States). Some believed it to be a previously unknown pygmy species and others argued that it was a young […]