Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
Had we located the address of an alien civilization? Same if not the case, the discovery is still surprising. Huge mysterious blast of radio waves was located precisely at a distance of 3.6 billion light years in a large galaxy. "This is the great breakthrough we've been waiting for since astronomers discovered rapid radio explosions […]
NASA’s new exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered its smallest planet yet: a world somewhere between the sizes of Earth and its smaller sister Mars. The planet is called L 98-59b because it sits in a nearby star system called L 98-59 that’s 35 light-years from our solar system in the southern constellation Volans. L 98-59b is not the […]
A giant asteroid the size of a car showed up on the University of Hawaii’s survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth’s atmosphere about 240 miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of first observation, the asteroid was just farther out than our Moon – at about 500,000 km from Earth (the Moon sits […]
The satellite has conditions similar to that of Earth 4 billion years ago and can help reveal how life on our planet came about. NASA said on Thursday it is sending a nuclear-powered drone to Saturn's largest moon to explore various locations in search of habitability and life. Called Dragonfly, the device will fly from […]
NASA has announced a mission to search for chemical evidence of past or existing life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The exploration will be performed with the drone Dragonfly, which will fly in various parts of the surface of Titan to analyze the progression of prebiotic chemistry. The Dragonfly drone will be released in 2026 […]
The next phenomenon of this magnitude, in this region, will only happen in 2103. When the Earth and the Sun align and the Moon is in the middle of the two, a solar eclipse occurs. It can be of three types: total (when the moon totally covers the sunlight), partial (only part of the illumination […]
The idea of the "life cycle" appeals to many people regardless of faith. In a nutshell, it's life turning to life – death is in the background. The Italian project The Capsula Mundi is a perfect representation of this concept. Developed by designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, the design consists of an organic and […]
Every once in awhile, as a person who writes about space, I encounter folks who don’t believe in it. Or don’t believe we’ve ever been there, anyway. Or that our robots have been there. Or that the Earth is round (but that’s a whole other thing.) But while tweets about how “astronauts” on the “International” “Space” […]
The Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (BRAMON) is composed of hundreds of operators throughout Brazil that aim to point cameras to the sky and capture the famous "shooting stars" – popular name for the meteor phenomenon. One of these stations, operated by Edgar Mendes Merizio and located more precisely in the city of São José do […]
Super Earth. Resting within the constellation Leo in K2-18, a system of red dwarf stars approximately 111 light-years away, lies a newly discovered exoplanet. Astronomers call this class of "Super Earth" planets. It was found using ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), they detected this planet by exploring an already discovered exoplanet (K2-18b). […]