All the space exploration missions we look forward to in 2021
byMost of us will remember 2020 primarily as the year of the great pandemic, but let’s not forget how space exploration and astronomy had…
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10 mega black hole findings from 2020
byPhysicists are currently living in the golden age of new knowledge about black holes. Since 2015, researchers have been able to obtain direct signals…
NASA’s Mars rover and ‘seven minutes of terror’
byNASA has released an animation showing how its one-ton rover will land on Mars on February 18. The robot is sent to a crater…
All of the dark matter in the universe may be primordial black holes – formed from the collapse of children’s universes shortly after the Big Bang
byby Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe December 28, 2020 Small universes branching out of our universe shortly after the…
Pluto’s atmosphere is as foggy as Titan, but for a different reason
byZoom in / Pluto’s atmosphere is somewhat foggy. Saturn’s moon Titan is distinctive, partly due to its orange color and hazy atmosphere. It is…
2020 saw many successes in space exploration
bySpace exploration gave moments of hope in a difficult year. Three countries sent Space ship Towards Mars in 2020. Astronauts set off into orbit…
Astrophysicists discover large, unintelligible filaments of gas between galaxies
byOptical image of the Abell 3391/95 system captured with a DECam. Overlaying the eROSITA image (darker = higher gas density) and radio lines (yellow)…
10 geological discoveries that totally rocked 2020
byScientists this year discovered some of the planet Earth’s most well-preserved secrets. They found hidden rivers, bits of lost continents and remnants of ancient…
Watch: When the astronauts on the International Space Station celebrate Christmas in space and Santa visits them
byAlthough this year the Christmas celebrations around the world were quiet due to pandemicThe festive joy, however, managed to spread to outer space. The…
Scientists have identified potential biomarkers to correlate when the submerged corpses died
byOphelia (1852) by John Everett Mehlis, inspired by Shakespeare’s character Hamlet , Who gets mad and drowns in a stream. It can be difficult…