Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus’ environment. It was also the program aimed at returning the first images of the surface of another planet. Over the course of the program, …
According to astronomers there are billions of galaxies in the universe, each one of them contain at least a trillion stars. This ultimately means there are likely trillions of habitable planets in the cosmos. But, if such habitable planets…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is planned to be launched in 2021 and astronomers consider that this telescope is their best hope of finding life beyond Earth. The JWST is the successor to the Hubble Telescope and is way much more powerful. T…
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie further away from the Sun don’t get nearly as much at…
Just last year, a Long March 2D rocket lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert transporting a satellite called Micius , named after an ancient Chinese logician from 391 B.C. Micius is in a Sun-synchronous orbit so that it …
Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus’ environment. It was also the program aimed at returning the first images of the surface of another planet. Over the course of the program, thirteen p…
According to astronomers there are billions of galaxies in the universe, each one of them contain at least a trillion stars. This ultimately means there are likely trillions of habitable planets in the cosmos. But, if such habitable planets are so m…
NASA’s flying observatory, t he Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA , lately finished a comprehensive study of a neighboring planetary system. The studies confirmed that this close planetary system has a design strangely similar to…
Everybody knows that Earth is old, but it’s quite hard to put into perception just how old it is. In the end, what does 4.5 billion years *actually* mean? How do you even grasp that amount of time with our short-term human brains? Well, Business Insid…
Passage of time is faster for your face than for your feet (supposing you’re standing up). Einstein’s theory of relativity states that the nearer you are to the center of the Earth, the slower time passes – and this has been already measured . For an …
