On September 24th, 2014, India becomes the fourth country that launches a satellite into Mars’ orbit. The satellite was successfully launched at the first attempt, thus placing India as the first country which managed...
The following video explores the planet Venus, our strange neighbor. This is the only planet in our Solar System that needs more time to rotate once around its own axes than around the Sun....
The following video gives us a short review of planet Mars. Its earthlike surface, an atmosphere, days and seasons gain our attention through the decades, because if its similarity with our planet. As the...
This video shows the mysterious light-toned material in the southeastern area of the Vinogradov crater on Mars. How do these light-toned blobs emerge?
Above the Earth’s atmosphere, here and there exist some dangerous zones, where the high energy particles interfere with observation from the satellites. Sometimes, these observations become impossible. One of these areas is known as...
Alexander Gerst, an ESA astronaut, has spent three months on the International Space Station, working on a Blue Dot mission. This video shows what is the Blue Dot mission all about and how his...
In the beginning of this year, on January 21, astronomers have found out the closest supernova in the Messier 82 galaxy. Gaining data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the astronomers easily detected that supernova...
After the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle program has dominated through the last 30 years and performed the space research, launched satellites and installed the international space stations. Now, when the Space Shuttle era...
It is expected that the MAVEN, Mars’ orbiter will enter the Mars’ atmosphere soon, after travelling 10 months through space. Then, its real mission of gathering information from Mars can start.
On August 21, an astronaut Reid Wiseman on ISS witnessed the unusual flame that behaved like jellyfish of fire. The following video shows us how the fire burn in microgravity.
Astronomers have found very peculiar object, which seems to have very long and strange history. The object has characteristics that suggest its old existence. Although, this ancient object is now cool with its temperature...
Betelgeuse is the one of the brightest stars in our night sky. It is about 430 light years away from Earth. Betelgeuse is a vast, extremely brilliant star which belongs to super giant stars....
The next total lunar eclipse will occur on October 8th, 2014. This is the latter of the two preceding lunar eclipses in 2014. It comes after the Harvest Moon and it is called the...
The scientists have found more than thousands of planets outside of our Solar System. They are trying to find the planet that is mostly Earthlike. Because of that, they are searching for exoplanet which...
Mars and Earth are two planets of our Solar System suitable for life. The only difference that makes the huge impact on the life on Earth is its magnetic field. The magnetic field protects...
For the answers to this question, we have to go back 13.6 billions of years, to the period just after the Big Bang. During the period without planets and the stars, young universe was...
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