About 10 years ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in September 1977, entered interstellar space, leaving the solar system. Currently, this probe is the farthestRead More
As we explained in the previous article, two Chinese geologists have recently come to the conclusion that the inner core of the Earth has slowedRead More
As it has been news during the last few days, a team of Chinese seismologists, formed by Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, published an articleRead More
The theory of the Big Bang states that the universe started in an extremely dense and hot state, and that it has been expanding andRead More
A few centuries ago, everyone believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe and that everything orbited around us. This vision of theRead More
Some hundreds of years ago it was thought that the Earth was the centre of the universe, that our planet was stationary, and that allRead More
The Earth, also known as the blue planet, is the third planet that orbits the Sun. The latter is one of the billions of starsRead More
An exoplanet (also named extrasolar planet) is a planet that is found beyond the solar system. Due to the great distances that separate us fromRead More
Direct imaging of exoplanets can seem to be the most simple system of all the different methods that exist, but, in fact, it is theRead More
Exoplanet detection has developed a lot during the last decades. Since the first detection of an exoplanet in 1994, many methods have been put intoRead More