Do you know why you sleep less well on full moon nights? Yes, the Moon affects our body and our mind to the point of preventing us from sleeping on certain nights. Besides the passion that Man has had for the Moon to the point of going there regularly, the natural satellite of the Earth […]
When you look up at the sky, all the stars you see belong to the Milky Way, the spiral galaxy to which we belong. The Milky Way is home to every alien world man has ever discovered, and the billions of other planets that exist in the galaxy that we don’t yet know to exist. […]
Scientists have found over 4,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sun-like star in 1995. More than half of these discoveries were made by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2009 on a mission to determine how common Earth-like planets are throughout the Milky Way galaxy. Discovering the first true […]
June 8 is World Ocean Day. This day, created in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio, aims to raise awareness of the crucial role that the ocean plays in our lives, our economy, and society in general. This day is an opportunity for us to better understand how the ocean fits into sustainable development, […]
Mangroves are very weird plants; in between land and water, they are very mysterious. Mangroves cannot be found everywhere; they are located in Africa, Australia, and between Florida and Argentina. Mangroves are salt-tolerant as they can be found on the coastline and also thrive in muddy waters. These places have the richest soil and a […]
Many people continue to confuse the terms astronomy and astrology. Although they were initially the same, more than seven centuries ago, astronomy and astrology parted ways. The difference is so significant that they will most likely be offended if you call an astronomer an astrologer by mistake. That’s right. Everything that happens outside our planet […]
Is there life on Mars? Humans have long been intrigued by this question. In 1895, Percival Lowel erroneously documented what he thought were artificial canals running through the planet. The thought that intelligent beings might inhabit our neighboring planet captured the imagination of the world and gave rise to numerous visions of Mars, some peaceful […]
Normal planets orbit in the same direction as their star – in a plane a few degrees from the star’s equatorial plane. But it turns out that many planets tend to behave wildly, with steeply inclined orbits, orbits that extend far or insanely close to their parent stars. Some even dare to orbit backwards. Mercury, […]
Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system – they can be beautiful Earth-like environments or worlds called ‘hell planets’ because of their rough surfaces. You’ll find everything from diamond planets to frozen planets. Planets are so close to their stars that their matter explodes every second, and the planets are so far from […]
With an age of 13,700 million years and an extension of more than 150,000 million light-years, the Universe is absolutely everything. The more we learn about it, the more it surprises us, and the more unanswered questions seem to arise. Our Earth is nothing more than a small rock that revolves around a star, […]
