Astronomy

In this 2015 we will have a total of eleven Meteor Showers (three less than last year). Faithful to its appointment, the Líridas rain begins one more year during the month of April, specifically this year they can be observed from April 16 to 25. The maximum of this storm of luminous particles will occur on Wednesday the 22nd.

A team of scientists from the University of Washington (USA) has solved the mystery that surrounded the dunes of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, within its dense and hazy atmosphere. The fact that the sand dunes pointed in the opposite direction to the air currents that circulated just above them was a mystery that we could not answer. Up to now.

Thanks to the images offered by NASA, ESA, JAXA, etc., every day we bring you a spectacular image of the universe. We show them to you in this photo gallery.

An asteroid baptized as 2012 TC4 and that could measure between 12 and 40 meters in diameter, that is, a considerable size, will pass dangerously close to our planet on October 12, 2017. The conclusions of the observations made by the experts have been published in the magazine astrowatch.net.

Since NASA's Curiosity rover reached the surface of the planet Mars in August 2012, it has been sending a large amount of data that has shown us, among other things, the presence of nitrogen fixed in sediments (an essential element for the existence life as we know it). Now, a team of scientists led by the Spanish Javier Martín-Torres from the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, has just demonstrated that liquid (salty) water can continue to exist on the red planet. The work has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Do not miss the most spectacular photographs of the surface of our planet taken from space.

Thanks to one of the most precise simulations that have been made of the formation process of the planets in our Solar System, the mystery surrounding the formation of our satellite, the Moon, has been revealed. How was it really formed?

When a solar storm reaches the Earth it can give rise to a beautiful spectacle: the polar auroras, colored lights that appear in the sky from both poles. They are commonly known as the Northern Lights.