There are mainly two major families of supernovae: type Ia supernovae and those known as core-collapse supernovae (types Ib, Ic, and II). Ia supernovae originate...
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Aboard the Vostok 1 capsule, he completed a single...
Asteroids quietly follow their orbit until a planet, especially Jupiter, passes close to them. The massive gas giant, with its powerful gravity, seriously disrupts the...
At the beginning, the solar system was just a large diffuse cloud of gas and dust known as a solar nebula. Gradually, under the effect...
The rings of Saturn likely come from the debris of a moon or a comet that got a bit too close and was torn apart...
Our atmosphere acts like a kind of dynamic filter in front of our eyes when we look at the stars. The layer of air surrounding...
Our planet rotates on itself from west to east. It is this constant rotation that creates the phenomenon of day-night alternation, giving the sensation that...
The Moon doesn't emit any light by itself; it is simply the Sun that illuminates it. As it orbits around the Earth, it presents us...
At the beginning of the solar system, everything was a giant cloud of gas and dust. Over time, these particles clumped together to form larger...
Initially, the solar system was just a huge cloud of gas and dust, called a nebula. Gradually, due to gravity, this cloud began to collapse...
