Neptune is the eighth planet in our solar system and orbits around the Sun at a distance of 2.8 billion miles. In comparison to Earth, that is approximately 30 times further from the Sun. In August 1989, Voyager II passed…
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NASA’s spacecraft, New Horizons, quickly passed by Ultima Thule on 31th of December 2018; it flew around 2,200 miles(3541 km) from its surface. The collected data helped scientists understand how the solar system looked in the past. Ultima Thule has…
SpaceX, which is a company of the billionaire Elon Musk, launched the first round of 60 satellites into low-Earth orbit with the goal of creating satellite constellation called Starlink. The idea behind Starlink is to provide star-based internet service around…
The city of Paris owns a tiny and tucked away metal cylinder. We refer to it as Le Grand K. This hunk of 10% iridium and 90% platinum has been the prototype kilogram for about 130 years now . And…
In between the massive ones, experts say that millions of minor and undetected earthquakes shake the Earth. A recent study exposed those concealed ones in Southern California. After this, the number of detected earthquakes has increased by tenfold in this…
Researchers have found how single-celled organisms have outplayed us. Namely, it would seem that the tiny bacteria in our guts have adopted a clever method which helps them resist our antibiotics. According to a report, the two-part system is beneficial…