Tag Archives: space

[ad_1] Barranquilla resumes preparations for the assembly of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 2021. Mayor Jaime Pumarejo Heins visit the American city of Washington to meet the new president of the international organization, Mauricio Claver-Carone. The meeting is scheduled for this Friday at 2:30 pm and it is the first official …

[ad_1] Astrophysicists first detected an explosion of cosmic radio waves within our solar system and identified its source, according to research released Wednesday that sheds new light on one of the Universe’s mysteries. The origin of the powerful fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense bursts of radio emission that last …

[ad_1] Paris – Astrophysicists first detected an explosion of cosmic radio waves in our solar system and identified its source, according to research published Wednesday that sheds new light on one of the mysteries of the universe. The origin of the powerful fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense bursts of …

[ad_1] Astronomers have identified a distant exoplanet that is so incredibly extreme, life as we know it wouldn’t last there for a second. Temperatures of over 3,000 ° C, oceans of lava and supersonic winds terrorize the planet’s surface, while intense heat vaporizes the rock which then rains down from …

[ad_1] For more than a decade, astronomers have questioned the origins of mysterious and fleeting bursts of radio waves from distant galaxies. Now, scientists have discovered the first such explosion in the Milky Way and traced it to its likely source: a small, rotating remnant of a collapsed star about …

[ad_1] A distant asteroid following the gravitational trail of Mars has been observed in more detail than ever, and the foreground reveals a striking similarity, which raises some interesting questions about the object’s ancient origins. The asteroid in question, named (101429) 1998 VF31, is part of a group of Trojan …

[ad_1] The asteroid the size of three football fields, named after the god of chaos, was found to accelerate as it approached Earth. Scientists say this situation increases the likelihood of Apophis hitting Earth in 2068. Researchers from the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy found that the asteroid Apophis …

[ad_1] As humanity celebrates the 20th anniversary of continued human presence in low earth orbit, a leading UK space expert has described the International Space Station (ISS) as an invaluable scientific resource. Libby Jackson, who is the head of the human exploration program at the UK Space Agency, said having …

[ad_1] An extremely rare asteroid made primarily of metal is worth approximately $ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s 10,000 quadrillion dollars or one followed by 19 zeros. While most asteroids are made of rock or ice, the mysterious asteroid 16 Psyche is nearly 27,200,000,000,000,000 (27 quadrillion and two hundred trillion) tons of iron …

[ad_1] Titan, Saturn’s already rather weird moon, just got a little weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in its atmosphere, an extremely rare carbon-based molecule that is so reactive that it can only exist on Earth under laboratory conditions. In fact, it is so rare that it has never been …