Category: 2. Space

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen (N2) and 5 percent methane (NH4) that require radar…

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System.

Heating of complex organic matter in the presence of water may be an important source of Titan’s abundant atmospheric nitrogen and methane gases, according to new research from Southwest Research Institute and Carnegie Institution for…

In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According to meteorite experts, the event is likely the first and only time the sound of a…

In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, planetary researchers used high-resolution images and compositional data captured by orbiters to understand the geology of thousands of kilometer-scale mounds in the lowlands north and…

When two particles collide, they normally fly off in opposite directions, like billiard balls on a smooth table. But in a recent physics experiment at the Weizmann Institute of Science, instead of flying off, the particles seemed to engage in a…

Vortices are a common physical phenomenon. You find them in the structure of galaxies, tornadoes and hurricanes, as well as in a cup of tea, or water as it drains from the bathtub. Normally, vortices are formed when very fast-flowing air, water…

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.

Proponents of this theory suggest that the event triggered the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling…

A study by a team of archaeoastronomers are investigating the possible connection of the moon in influencing the Stonehenge builders.

According to a press statement by the Royal Astronomical Society, academics from Oxford, Leicester and…

The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger is an iron forged dagger with extraterrestrial origins.

During the Bronze Age, iron was more valued than gold (evidenced in the Kültepe tablets of 1950 BC), and very few ancient cultures had the smelting…