Astronomy

The Perseid Meteor Shower, also known as "Tears of Saint Lawrence", will reach its peak this morning. The best time to look will be during the hours of maximum darkness, before sunrise on Tuesday, August 12.

So it is . The Milky Way is on a collision path with its neighbor Andromeda , which, located just over two million light...

"Soon we will be able to detect many super-Earths" Diana Valencia is the new star of the prestigious Department of Planetary Sciences at Harvard. This young researcher, trained in geophysics and seismology at the Canadian University of Toronto and the University of the Andes in Bogotá, where she was born, was the first to call a type of extrasolar planets similar to ours but more massive super-Earths. Today they are the great object of desire of astronomers.

Stars look like bells: acoustic waves travel on their surfaces . This is all due to the fact that, like a pot of water...

For centuries the full moon has been attributed the cause of epilepsy. This disease, which is characterized by the seizures it causes, has even been called "mole disease", and those who suffered from it, "lunatics".

"My plasma rocket will take us to Mars in three months" Born in Costa Rica in 1950, experienced in seven missions to space, the physicist and astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz investigates with plasma engines at the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory in Houston. Their objective is to propel the Vasimr rocket with them for use in future flights to Mars.

In the night sky, we can see that the stars describe an arc in the sky: they slowly appear over the eastern horizon, a moment that is called ortho; they reach a higher point -the transit- and they hide in the west, a moment known as sunset.

If the pair of stars are only a few light years away from us, the distance between them is measured by the so-called trigonometric...