A cloud of dust and gas revolving around the infant star system 1,300 light-years away, we are not yet like a disk forming a planet. It consists of three rings, wrapped around three stars – and all three rings have different directions, with the other two incorrectly connected. It is …
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The moon is both amazingly close to Earth and cosmicly far away: after the end of the space race, it is extraordinarily expensive and really hard to get there. The journey got a little easier, however, thanks to the newly published NASA discovery. The agency’s patent does not cover a …
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Our closest global neighbor, the moon, and the only other body in the solar system, on which man has set foot, is well known to us. We know that there is practically no air. We know that water is ice, but not liquid water. So you can understand why the …
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Earth, with its convincingly familiar continents, arranged in a reliable configuration that you know and love, does not always look like it does today. The masses of its land, once closed together in the supercontinent, have broken and broken and drifted away from each other, and have come together again …
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When the signs of life are discovered in the universe, we find very specific things based on what we know: Earth-like planets, in orbit around stars, and at distances that allow liquid surface water. But, imaginatively, there may be other forms of life that seem like nothing we have never …
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