Discover what exist in the universe
Space travel is the ability of humans to leave Earth and its atmosphere and travel into outer space. Space travelers have been taken beyond Earth’s “sensible” atmosphere since the beginning of the Space Age. Humans have been dreaming about space travel since the beginning of time. In the 1600s, famous […]
The sky above Earth is very vast. You cannot imagine what matter is present above you once you leave Earth’s atmosphere. Another world starts with no boundaries, measurements, or fields, known as space. Exploring space has been one of the biggest passions of scientists for a long time ago. Many […]
About 70 years ago, scientists discovered that the universe was expanding and galaxies were moving away from each other, meaning the universe was once smaller than it is now. Several decades later, in the 1990s, astronomers discovered that this expansion was accelerating due to a form of energy known as […]
The first stargazers discovered that the bright planets in our sky follow the same path as the Sun and Moon, more or less. The zodiac is the name we give to the sky path. Today, we know that this sky path – this zodiac – is the result of our […]
The solar system comprises of nine planets since the discovery of Pluto in 1930. Most of that changed in the late 1990s, when scientists started disputing whether Pluto was a planet or not. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the very contentious decision to label Pluto as a “dwarf […]
The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral structure with hundreds of billions of stars, including the Sun. The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral structure of stars. The Milky Way, an irregularly brilliant band of stars and gas clouds, gives the Galaxy its shape. Even though Earth is wholly within […]
The Quest for the Galaxy’s Core Every star seen in the sky is a part of the same massive Galaxy. The Milky Way contains our solar system and between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of which have their planets. The Milky Way earned its name from how […]
Dwarf planets are too small to be classified as full-fledged planets but too huge to be classified as dwarf planets. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about Pluto losing its status as a planet in the solar system. Pluto is no longer regarded as the ninth planet […]
Is the Sun only one of the hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy, a vast cosmic sphere? The Milky Way is a massive cluster of stars, dust, and gas that stretches across the sky. It’s termed a spiral galaxy because it appears to spin […]
WHAT ARE CONSTELLATIONS, AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? A constellation is a group of stars that form a shape in the night sky. People, animals, and things from mythology are commonly used as names. People throughout the world have shaped the same groupings of dazzling stars. It’s like a dot-to-dot. […]
