Few know that the Vatican jealously guards about 150 kilos of extraterrestrial material. These are more than 1,200 meteorite fragments that are kept in the collection of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, next to the former summer residence…
Successful return of samples rescued by NASA's Osiris-Rex mission, the first of the American space agency to collect remains from an asteroid. The maneuvers began as planned: around 1 in the afternoon (time is…
With the 250 grams of regolith taken from that 500-meter space rock, there are now six samples from extraterrestrial worlds brought back to Earth.
El equipo de Johannes Fritz lleva 20 años liderando migraciones de ibis eremitas, una especie que llegó a extinguirse en Europa. Ahora, el cambio climático les ha obligado a buscar nuevas rutas en España
As the day goes by we spend energy and ATP – the energy currency of living beings – breaks down, releasing adenosine as a byproduct, a neurotransmitter that transmits information between cells. The longer we have been...
Seven years have passed since the Osiris-Rex spacecraft took flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA). NASA's goal was to collect samples from Bennu, a rare primitive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building in New York, so…
NASA's Osiris-Rex mission will approach Earth this Sunday to deliver a cargo of incalculable scientific value. They are samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building located about 300 million kilometers…
In the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, a creature that surprises the scientific community has lived hidden, the 'Promachocrinus fragarius', a species of sea feather star of which there was no record, whose discovery reconfirms that the origin…
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe brings a capsule with remains of the asteroid Bennu, the one with the highest risk of colliding with Earth
