A team of researchers led by the University of New South Wales (Australia) has discovered a planet very similar to Earth, potentially habitable and quite close: only 16 light years away.
These days we have the opportunity to contemplate a phenomenon that only occurs every 17 years: the alignment of the asteroids Ceres and Vesta, two of the brightest objects in the asteroid belt.
The feeding of insects and slugs by our ancestors may have played a key role in stimulating the brain and its cognitive capacity, says a new study carried out by the University of Washington in San Luis (USA). The work has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
The first spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), begins its journey at 11.56 a.m. from the Vandenberg base, California (USA), aboard a Delta II rocket.
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission has discovered that the Sun's atmosphere, known as the corona, is much larger than previously thought, reaching up to 8 million kilometers above the surface of the astro. The results of the study have been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The list of planets located outside our solar system that are potentially habitable continues to grow. The new member of the list is Gliese 832 c, a super-earth that orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 832, already known to the astronomical world for hosting a planet similar to a cold Jupiter, Gliese 832 b.
An international team of researchers from the universities of Bonn (Germany), Linyu (China), the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (China), the University of Kansas (USA) and the Natural History Museum in London (UK), has discovered the fossil remains of a spectacular and unusual parasite that lived in the freshwater lakes of present-day Inner Mongolia (China) about 165 million years ago.
This is what storm clouds and lightning flash look like from where we never see them. These incredible photographs were taken from the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometers.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
