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Closer to Finding Alien Life: Upcoming Mars Rover Will Drill Deeper Than Ever into the Red Planet’s Soil

Astronomers are not giving up hope when it comes to finding extraterrestrial life, and it’s completely understandable. Our planet cannot be the only one in the Universe supporting life, and even common sense tells us that. But still, we need…

September 17, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The International Space Station Had an Alarm Triggered Due to Smoke

The International Space Station (ISS) has been in the Earth’s orbit for over 20 years, and it initiated a lot of useful experiments for the sake of science and for finding out more about how the human body behaves under…

September 12, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Hubble Captures Jaw-Dropping Photo of “Sword” Piercing a Star

We’re all part of an amazing Universe that never ceases to amaze us. Not to mention that more and more astrophysicists are in favor of the idea that a so-called Multiverse could exist, meaning a totality of many universes such…

August 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Hubble Captures Outstanding Image of a “Furnace” Galaxy

It’s only a matter of months until the Hubble telescope that’s operated by NASA and the ESA will be replaced by the next-generation James Webb Telescope. Even so, Hubble still seems to have some important things to prove. The over-three-decades-old…

August 17, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Astronomers Discover Planet “With No Known Equivalent” Located Close to Us

Scientists estimate that there are planets in almost all of the solar systems out there. In other words, every time you spot a shiny star, it can also mean that a cluster of planets exists there as well. Think about…

July 28, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The Hubble Telescope Comes Back in Big Style, Offering Outstanding Pics of Misfit Galaxies

Our publication wrote a few days ago about how the Hubble Telescope operated by NASA and the European Space Agency became reactivated after a period when an onboard computer started to malfunction. The American space agency saved the day by…

July 20, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Huge Amount of Dark Matter is Missing From a Galaxy – Scientists Encounter Even New Conundrum

Judging by the information astrophysicists have, any galaxy should contain a significant amount of dark matter, the mysterious form of matter that’s responsible for some of the stars’ movements within galaxies. But as it always happens in astronomy, the Universe…

June 18, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The International Space Station Moves Tremendously Fast Through Space, and a New Photo Proves It

Since 1998 when the International Space Station (ISS) was launched into orbit, it had pretty simple tasks: to make us all understand our place in the Solar System and learn more about how our cosmic neighbourhood works. The space station…

June 15, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Hubble’s 31st Anniversary: the Telescope Captures Footage of One of the Brightest Stars on the Edge of Destruction

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into Earth’s lower orbit in 1990, and it had some impressive achievements while aimed towards the depths of the Universe: it discovered two moons of Pluto (Hydra and Nix), it helped pin down the…

April 24, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The International Space Station Throws its Most Massive Object Ever to Remain in Orbit as Space Junk

Many scientists are worried about the huge amount of space debris that’s trapped in the Earth’s orbit. In some cases, waste material even has the potential of jeopardizing the possibility for astronomers to detect space objects through their powerful telescopes.…

March 17, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0