NASA’s SpaceXCrew 1 mission holds the record for the longest spaceflight. The NASA team, led by Michael Hopkins, spent 64 days growing the two species of plants. This is the longest period to date. Extra dwarf and mustard Amstra varieties of Chinese cabbage were cultivated in space. NASA had earlier released details of their space…
The Ingenuity helicopter is known to have flown to Mars. This is the first time a vehicle has been controlled on a planet other than Earth. At present we do not have aircraft or vehicles capable of flying over other planets. But in the future, that may be the case. So if you fly in…
Wasp 76b is a planet with a cloudy sky all the time. The new planet was discovered about 390 light-years from Earth a few years ago. Researchers say that instead of rain clouds, there are clouds full of iron. It has an atmosphere similar to that of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System….
The asteroid between Mars and Jupiter was discovered in 1852 by the Italian astronomer Anibal de Gaspiris. He also named it Psyche, after the ancient Greek goddess. But recently, NASA came up with a mission to study this. Early studies showed that iron and nickel were the main metals found in psychics. Subsequent studies have…
Fluorescent frogs were found in the Amazon rainforest of Argentina. Researchers at the Bernardino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences are behind the discovery. During a study of the specific color scheme of the spotted frogs (polka-dot tree frog) commonly found in these areas, the researchers accidentally discovered the feature of these frogs glowing in the…
A piece of rock with a diameter of only 370 meters is in a light collision probability course with our Earth. It will reach its closest orbit to Earth in 2029. This time the probability of a fall is low but again it will return to 2068. The Subaru (Japanese) Telescope made a worrying discovery….
The sun is a fusion reactor that is running out of fuel. The Sun has a lifespan of about 5 billion years. This does not mean that we have time for another 500 billion years. A recently published study estimates that our atmosphere may lose oxygen in about 1 billion years. During the last days…
Images taken by NASA’s Juno Orbiter from 8000 km above clearly show the shadow of Io, a satellite above Jupiter. The shadow of IO, about the same size as our moon, is only a small shadow above the globular giant Jupiter. This is an event similar to our solar eclipse. The eclipse is a small…
The Van Allen Belt is an atmosphere in which high-energy charged particles are blocked by our Earth’s magnetic field. The radiation belt was discovered in 1958 by James van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa (USA).What are particles?The Van Allen belt has an outer belt and an inner belt .The outer belt is…
The “flash” of the impact was large enough to be seen through the telescope from Earth.The size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 16,350 km (April 2017). This spot is 1.3 times the size of Earth’s.There are other spots on Jupiter that are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Perhaps this “object” that might fall to…
