Secrets of space 2024, November

Physicists from the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a theoretical description of the behavior of matter inside black holes and have found a possible way to reconcile quantum physics and the theory of gravity, according to an article published in the Journal o

Astronomers from the Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University found that the shape and size of galaxies were determined in the distant past by how many "embryos" of supermassive black holes contained their outskirts, according to an article published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astro

One day, in the spring of 2018, professor of astrophysics Jason Wright set a difficult task for his students: to get serious results on the problem of communication with extraterrestrial civilizations (SETI) and at the same time keep within one semester

So Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, a scientist who is an employee of the Moscow Institute of Nuclear Research, is inclined to think that black holes can hide forms of life unknown to us, there is a possibility of finding there highly developed civilizations, which are different

Observing the "jitter" of merging black holes will help scientists figure out if there are axions, ultra-light particles of dark matter, or other candidates for the "sixth force of nature."

In the works of science fiction writers, you can find many versions that black holes can serve as "gates" to other universes. Black hole - it is a very massive object, and its gravity is not uniform

This spring, astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 stellar system, which is only 40 light years away from Earth, which is very small by cosmic standards

Leonid Ksanfomality, an employee of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, intends to defend his hypothesis about the possible existence of life on Venus

Did you know that the universe we observe has fairly definite boundaries? We are used to associating the universe with something infinite and incomprehensible

The ufologist, known in UFO circles as Streetcat1, found the same unusual object in three different photographs from the Moon (see video below)

While studying the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that is a dwarf satellite of our Milky Way, scientists have found traces of unusual, carcinogenic substances in it

Until now, people around the world have not received a sensible explanation as to why we no longer fly to the moon. Moreover, the space programs of both the Soviet Union and the United States were closed back in the early 70s

New research suggests that the biggest danger in the event of an asteroid falling to Earth will not be the fact of its collision with the surface

Trans-Neptunian objects 2004 VN112 and 2013 RF98 are part of a small but important group of bodies, whose orbits were used to justify the existence of planet X

When the universe was born, it resembled the underworld, where electrons and protons ran randomly in the pitch darkness

Humanity has reached great heights in space exploration. It is in a relentless search for undiscovered wonders, incredible riches and terrible secrets hidden in the depths of extraterrestrial canyons

The last remnants of Martian rivers and oceans could not evaporate into space, but literally soak into its rocks and change their chemical composition, coloring the planet red, according to an article published in the journal Nature

In the northern part of Argentina, there is an area that the ancient Indians called Campo del Cielo, that is, "heavenly field"

The force of gravity can become an insurmountable obstacle for extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps that is why there have been no guests from other galaxies on Earth until now. The larger the planet - the greater its surface gravity and the mass of objects on it

Each of us is made up of atoms that were once part of an exploding star. Including there are carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms - some of the basic ingredients needed to start life

Forbes magazine has compiled a rating of places in the universe, the sight of which scares people. The leader of the list is the Dark Nebula SH2-136, 1200 light years distant from Earth

Russian scientists have explained the situation around the large asteroid Florence, which will approach Earth on September 1, 2017. TASS reports their words

Spanish astronomers have shown that the asteroid 2016 HO3, discovered in April 2016, will cease to be a quasi-satellite of the Earth in a few million years. Research on this is published on arXiv.org

Now it is difficult to imagine that the luminary familiar to people was not visible at all in the sky. However, ancient sources describe a lunar period, after which it was created by aliens and attracted by the Earth

Why do we live in a universe with three spatial and one time dimensions - 3 + 1, as cosmologists would say? Why exactly this combination, and not 4 + 2 or 2 + 1? Over the past decade, physicists have explored this question many times, contemplating other universes with different properties in order to understand whether complex life could exist in them or not

Everybody heard how the time is calculated. Who does not know seconds, minutes, or count the year (God is god) and who counts as hours or the number of years (years means the time of the sun standing on June 21, summer time), but all this is an error in calculation

13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a hot Big Bang. Since then, it has expanded and cooled, up to the present day

At the beginning of the last century, the general public did not hear anything about the existence of magnetic storms. For the first time, our compatriot A. Chizhevsky began to study this phenomenon - outstanding Soviet scientist, biophysicist and philosopher

Conspiracy theorists discovered in the CIA documents declassified in January, information about the ancient Martians and pyramids, which were allegedly built by aliens on the Red Planet about a million years ago

According to the plot of the 2012 movie hit "Prometheus", life did not originate on Earth, but was brought here by the highly developed space civilization of "engineers"

Chang'e-4, a Chinese probe that successfully made a soft landing on the dark side of the Moon (for the first time in human history) and named after the Chinese goddess of the Moon, among other scientific experiments, took with it a 3-kg aluminum container with several

Astronomers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata concluded that the Milky Way had an active core billions of years ago

How and how did the universe begin? Almost all religions, creeds and cults offer answers to this question, as old as the world. But science has taken it seriously quite recently - only in the 20th century.The simplest answer will be the shortest - it all started with the Big Bang

Mysterious discrepancies in measurements of the length of the day on Venus turned out to be associated with a giant "standing wave" in the atmosphere of Venus, recently discovered by the Akatsuki probe

Scientists have found that once upon a time, about 3 billion years ago, a mild climate reigned on the planet Venus and life was in full swing, according to The Guardian

Today Mars is a desiccated desert. Conditions on the planet's surface exclude the possibility of stable existence of liquid water. But it was not always so. At the dawn of the solar system, Mars had a full-fledged hydrosphere

This ancient structure on Mars was found by Jean Ward from Youtube this week. The structure has right angles and an internal baffle

Scientists often fall into a state where it seems to be possible to assume that most of the fundamental laws of nature have already been discovered, and we know most of the rules that govern the universe.Usually, however, lack of humility is punished, and physics, when it comes to a theory of everything, suddenly needs to be darned using indirect concepts

"May the Force be with you" - this phrase from George Lucas' Star Wars is played up by many fans as a pun: May the fourth be with you

Space can get closer - exactly 20 kilometers: scientists from the International Aeronautical Federation (FAI) invited their colleagues from the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) to discuss the possibility of lowering the official boundary of the space