Our galaxy is truly an amazing place and as scientists, physicists and astronomers develop even more sophisticated methods of exploring it so we discover even more weird and wonderful things about it. Here’s five of the strangest space-facts we could find, kicking off with…
As far as we’re aware, Mars is a barren, lifeless world. Up until now, scientists have struggled to figure out why this is the case, but new evidence has provided a reason: Mars lost...
When compared to our planet Mars is very tiny, possessing around ten per cent of Earth’s total mass. This has long puzzled experts in planetary formation, as in the standard model objects of a...
A celestial wonder, the Sun is a massive star that formed from a massive gravitational collapse when space dust and gas from a nebula collided, forming into an orb that is 100 times bigger...
NASA have announced an incredible new discovery on Mars. They have revealed that LIQUID WATER runs down canyons and crater walls during the Red Planet’s summer months. For years scientists have known that Mars...
The astronomer Percival Lowell predicted the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. Lowell failed to find Planet X in his lifetime, but Clyde Tombaugh – using the...
Last week NASA Administrator Charles Frank Bolden Jr. was quizzed by UK children on all manner of space related topics. When asked if he believed in aliens by one of the panelists, to which...
The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, when part of a giant molecular cloud experienced a gravitational collapse. The centre became the Sun, which comprises more than 99 per cent of the solar...
NASA’s latest space exploration plan is well under way and involves sending a robotic spacecraft into deep space, where it will capture an asteroid and redirect it into the Moon’s orbit. Astronauts will then be able to...
1) Venus has phases like a moon When closest to the Earth, Venus appears bright and crescent-shaped. When it is further away, the planet is dim and round. 2) It rotates backwards Venus has a retrograde,...
