Turned out the Moon was 4.51 billion years old

According to scientists, it turns out the moon was older than previously thought, which is 4.51 billion years old. Thus the latest estimates, thanks to the rocks and soil samples collected by the astronauts of Apollo 14 on the moon. The study has put the age of the Moon at at least 4.51 billion years — up to 140 million years older than previously thought,...

Not a comet or asteroid, this strange celestial object is being approaching the Earth

An infrared telescope belonging to the NASA detects two objects that are approaching the Earth. But one of them, identified as 2016 WF9 made the scientists confusion. NEOWISE telescope first spotted the WF9 on November 27, 2016. The object was apparently shot from the direction of the Jupiter and entered the path of Earth's orbit in 4.9 years. An illustration...

The dwarf planet Ceres turned out to be covered by ice

The dwarf planet Ceres is a rocky place that is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and is based on research done by NASA, it also contains a lot of ice on its dark surface. The study, published in several reports in the journals Science and Nature Astronomy can lead to commercial mining on asteroids for both robotic and human expeditions...

Scientists find a clue when the apocalypse occurs on the Earth

Five billion years from now, the sun apocalypse. Doomsday. After our sun exhausted their fuel, and will start to burn the heavier elements in its fusion core. When this process occurs, the Sun will swell, and also will spew most of its constituent materials into space through a strongly blow of the stellar winds. Imagine, then the sun will expand about...

The most rounded star in the universe discovered

There are no space objects really spherical. The shape is influenced by the force created by the rotational motion and magnetic fields. No wonder so many the space objects that looks more bloated, especially around the equator. One example is our sun. At the equator area of sun was 10 kilometers longer than the radius at around its two poles. The average...

Could the Pluto have clouds like Our Earth?

Data from New Horizons spacecraft were examined the Pluto last year showed that in addition to fog, the dwarf planet may also have a cloud. Earlier, New Horizons has found a thin haze in the atmosphere of Pluto, with an altitude of 120 miles and is separated into at least 24 different layers. Pluto's face turns colorful, composed of pale blue, yellow, and...

Could this icy world is a sign of the ninth planet in the Solar system?

Our solar system has a new extreme object named L91. Not just the name that might make the forehead frowning, its orbit too. Yes, something very cool until its natural deserve to be called as the icy world is orbiting so far from the Sun so that one year in there is equivalent to 20 millennium on the Earth. So imagine. If you live there, the time span since...

Rosetta mission ends with a heroic action

Rosetta mission 'FINISHED'. Unmanned spacecraft ended its mission with heroic action, by crashing to the ice surface of comet 67P. Rosetta mission control in Darmstadt has not been able to confirm when the final seconds Rosetta occur. Contact with the aging spacecraft was abruptly broken off (which indicates the occurrence of damage). The Rosetta spacecraft...

World's largest radio telescope begins operations

China started to operate a radio telescope Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) on Sunday, September 25, 2016. The telescope is now the largest in the world, ahead of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that operates with the funding of the US-National Science Foundation (NSF). Being in between two cliffs in the mountains of Guizhou,...