Luna-25, the first probe launched by Russia towards the Moon since 1976, crashed on the Earth's satellite after an incident that occurred on Saturday during a maneuver prior to landing on the moon, which was scheduled for Monday, the Rosco space agency announced...
The waves have a hypnotic effect. We can spend hours watching, without getting tired, how one after another breaks in front of the beach. You don't have to be very observant to discover that waves increase in height before they do so. To understand this…
He is the scientist who has served as president of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University for the longest number of years (from 2011 to 2020). Scientific advisor to the White House, Abraham (Avi) Loeb currently directs the Galileo project and the Ins…
The Russian space agency Roscosmos reported this Saturday that an "emergency situation" has occurred on the Russian Luna-25 spacecraft, which was preparing for a pre-landing orbit, according to information compiled by 'Azernews'. "It was issued…
During the summer weeks it is not exceptional that the news programs open with the increasing impact of heat waves as a consequence of climate change. A summer nightmare that is increasingly being experienced in a greater number of European countries. How…
At this very moment there are two ships, one Russian and one Indian, orbiting the Moon and ready to make history. Both strive to become the first probe to land on the sought-after lunar south pole, a place where it is believed that there are large reserves of...
When a very massive star runs out of fuel, it collapses under its own weight and finally explodes in the form of a supernova, one of the most violent and energetic events in the entire Universe. If the star was big enough, na…
At the end of the last Ice Age, about two-thirds of Earth's large mammals in most regions of the world disappeared. This extinction was the largest of the Cenozoic, and coincided with the climatic changes of the Quatern...
An embryo is formed when sperm fertilizes an egg. Or, at least, that was what biology had taught us until a new scientific trick made it possible to give them life in the laboratory, without eggs or sperm. With the new tools…
The first spacecraft aimed at the Moon launched by Russia in almost half a century has successfully entered the orbit of our Earth satellite this Wednesday, as announced by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. «For the first time in contemporary history...
