Astronomy

The troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculation. The asteroid Vesta is the second biggest asteroid in our planetary system. With a size of 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids played for long a part in building popular fascination with space. “Marooned off Vesta” […]

Learn everything about the Venera missions, which were introduced between 1961 and 1983. Over a third of the 30 space missions to date to successfully fly near or orbit Venus belonged to the previous Soviet Union’s Venera series of robot probes. The Venera (or “Venus” in Russian”) missions, launched between 1961 and 1983, focused on

Located more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not presumed to be particularly warm. Based on the quantity of sunlight received, the average temperature level in the planet’s upper atmosphere should be around minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit or a freezing minus 73 Celsius. Instead, the measured value rises to

Like a golf cart relocating at 15,000 miles per hour slamming into the side of a football stadium.’ It would have been good if the dinosaurs had a space program. They did not, but some may claim a space program that cannot protect its people from space-based dangers, like colossal asteroids, was not that terrific,