The hardest diamonds are black and fell from the sky
If fate has ever taken you to the Wikipedia list of the largest known rough diamonds, you will have seen...
astronomy
The enigmatic origin of globular clusters
Stars do not usually appear isolated in the universe. On the contrary, they tend to focus on those huge clouds...
There are giant diamonds and they are in space
In addition to being the chemical pillar of life on Earth, which is not little, carbon is a very curious...
The supermoon does not exist, it is marketing
We all like special things. Those that stand out above average in any aspect. Records and rankings drive us crazy...
Observed the remains of two planets that destroyed each other
If you have had occasion to see the sunrise or sunset with the clear sky and from a place away...
The oldest land rocks are on the Moon: how did they get there?
If you want to understand what the solar system was like in the remote past, the ideal is to take...
Could Venus lose her moon?
Venus is known to be the "twin planet" of the Earth, largely because the two worlds have an atmosphere and...
When a dead star dies again
Lately there has been a lot of talk about Betelgeuse, a giant star with a mass 11 times higher than...
The extraterrestrial mineral that came in a meteorite
1951. It was early morning in the small town of Wedderburn, in Australia. Its inhabitants were already asleep when a...
Polar auroras, beyond our planet
ScienceThe polar auroras are not something exclusive to our planet, Jupiter, Saturn and even Mars seem to produce their own...
The future home of humanity?
After flying over Pluto and obtaining images of its surface with an unprecedented level of detail, the New Horizons probe...
UFOs that pollute the night sky
Daniel López, one of the most prestigious astrophotographers in Europe, who collaborates in La Palma and Tenerife with the Instituto...
How does Saturn maintain the shape of its rings? The secret of the Pastoral Moons
The titan of the rings, Saturn. Of all the gas giants that populate our cosmic neighborhood Saturn is possibly the...
Tycho Brahe: astronomer, alchemist and "stuffed" with gold
As far as people of science are concerned, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) is likely to be one of the most peculiar...
"Which planet has more moons?" A trick question
A few days ago I was throwing old junk and I ran into one of my favorite childhood books, the...
