We talk a lot about science and what it can give us as a society. But, in the end, science does not happen alone; people grow it. What motivates us scientists?
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Classifying is one of the main scientific activities, it helps to understand the nature of things. We owe the star classification that we use today to a group of women from the late 19th century, among whom we highlight Annie Jump Cannon.
How many things are there in the universe? We start by telling (telling) what we know well and really counts (measuring) on the scale.
General Relativity, optics, the concept of time, all come together in Earendel's story, the end of which was written, but has not yet happened.
Perhaps we should give thanks for being able to quench our thirst and, more generally, for existing, to the king of the planets, to a frozen and disappeared planet and to a satellite that emerged from the designs of both and from gravity.
What is the water on Earth like? Has it always been here or does it have a different origin? We start by explaining how to distinguish water from different origins
Venus, Earth and Mars share their beginnings, but at some point they separated their paths, being today very different, especially in the characteristics of their atmospheres and in a small detail: only in one did destiny entail that life would appear and evolve through everywhere
A good physical theory makes predictions that can be tested with experiments. In the case of the most accepted theory of formation and evolution of the universe from the Big Bang, a good example of a proven prediction is what is known as baryon acoustic oscillations.
Known as the “mother of Hubble”, one of the great protagonists of the exploration of the universe from space, she was a pioneer in the search for extrasolar planets.
Our knowledge of the universe is fundamentally based on collecting and analyzing photons, a method that has many limitations. We need completely different perspectives