Curiosity captures Mars’ stunning clouds: grayish, bright and strikingly similar to ours
NASA describes them as soft puffs of ice crystals. After years of chasing these clouds, the Curiosity rover has finally managed to capture their formation in the thin, delicate Martian atmosphere. A grayish, iridescent...
Pacific Ocean floor hides radioactive material from other stars
Recently, a Japanese oil company conducting operations at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean found something totally unexpected: plutonium from outside the Solar System. Plutonium that can help us better understand how this radioactive...
This is the world’s smallest chip: it is injected with a syringe and monitors...
Chips are getting smaller and smaller, this is the obsession of manufacturers to improve their efficiency and also the effort of researchers to improve existing technologies and solutions. Proof of this is the latest...
Starship lands successfully for the first time: SpaceX’s interplanetary spacecraft closer to travel to...
It has finally done it, Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully landed the SN15 prototype of the Starship. The giant spacecraft has tried several times before, but it is only now with the SN15 prototype...
Africa’s oldest human burial found: Mtoto, a child who died 78,000 years ago
The skeleton of Mtoto -translation of child in the Swahili language- is part of the oldest human burial in Africa. From his remains it is deduced that he is between 2.5 and 3 years...
Chinese 50-meter-high rocket is about to re-enter the atmosphere, will fall out of control
Last week China was preparing to start assembling its own space station. After the successful launch of the first part of the station, the rocket that carried it into orbit is about to return...
World’s deepest pool will be used for extreme diving and space flight simulation
Its name is 'Blue Abyss' and it is a gigantic pool of water that will be used for extreme diving, research and aiding space exploration. Designed by English architect Robin Partington in 2016, the...
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut who went to the Moon with Neil Armstrong and...
Michael Collins, an astronaut who flew on one of the most famous space missions of all time, Apollo 11, died Wednesday at age 90 from cancer, the family said in a statement. He was...
Russia considers abandoning the International Space Station after 2024
More than 20 years of age are taking their toll on the International Space Station, which has often had to undergo repairs to keep going. Instead, alternatives such as the construction of private space...
Follow the first flight of Perseverance’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars
This Monday NASA is going to make history again, if everything goes according to plan. This time on the occasion of the Mars 2020 mission. Perseverance and Ingenuity are part of this mission to...
