China has become the first country after the United States to successfully land a rover on Mars. On May 14, 2021, China’s Zhurong rover rolled from its platform onto the red sand, with this historical […]
The red planet has been an object of fascination to us for thousands of years. Going from a god of war to a potential alien world with alien people and large canals to our current […]
Asteroids are a common objects in our solar system. Most of them originate from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, followed by the ones that come from the distant Oort cloud that encircles us […]
Last year was a tough one, loaded with natural and man-made disasters to the point where many people jokingly predicted a giant asteroid hitting Earth for December 2020. Now that we have safely passed into […]
An international team of astronomers want to build a 100 meter in diameter telescope on the Moon. No this is not the plot of some sci-fi movie, it is very much something that could happen […]
NASA’s flying SOFIA telescope has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon’s sunlit surface. This proves that water is not just present in the shadowy craters, but could be all over the lunar surface. […]
Ceres is the Asteroid belt’s largest object, making up around one third of the total mass or the entire belt. This dwarf planet is the largest remnant of what could have been a planet, had […]
Meteors are constantly entering and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, providing stargazers with some of the most awe inspiring celestial events of the year. There are currently more than 900 known annual meteor showers, of […]
The dwarf planet designated 136199 Eris is named after the Greek goddess of strife, while its satellite, designated Dysnomia, is named after the goddess of lawlessness, who incidentally was Eris’ daughter. Eris is the most […]
Phobos is the larger and nearest of Mars’ two natural satellites, the other being Deimos. Both moons were discovered a few days apart in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall from the U.S. Naval Observatory […]
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