The black holes are gigantic swallowing matter objects, which, as by their very existence, challenge the laws of physics. They are so strange that when Einstein first predicted them by the equations, he couldn’t believe that they actually exist. Аs … Read More
Have you ever wondered what is the biggest meteorite that have crashed to Earth? The answer is – Hoba. The meteorite hit the Earth about 80,000 years ago, but was only discovered in 1920 near Grootfontein – Namibia, by farmer … Read More
The three are often mistaken – especially when two of them flew near the Earth in the same day, as happened about 10 days ago.Here you can find a short explanation. Asteroids are rocky objects in space smaller than planets. … Read More
Something’s wrong with Jupiter. Photos by astronomer Antony Wesley shows that one of the two dark areas in the planet’s atmosphere (the belts) has disappeared. Maybe Arthur Clark was right in his Odyssey and the gas giant would become a … Read More
If you still think our Earth’s weather is bad, think again. With the ice giants Neptune and Uranus, for example, incredible pressures and super cool temperatures cause cascading rain of … diamonds. Now scientists have recreated these effects in … Read More
The perfect combination of enough land and water turns out to be a rarity in the Universe. According to scientists at the University of Barcelona, it is quite difficult to find a planet that has conditions suitable for life … Read More