Science

The liftoff took place on May 5th, 1961. It allowed Alan Shepard Jr. to go down in history as the fi ...

They stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and their height reaches 100 meters. Unlike Earth’s, Titan’s dunes are made of organic compounds.

The Sámi people claimed that creating a song about the aurora borealis is dangerous and threatens to draw polar light on themselves, which bode inevitable death.

Snow crystals are almost perfectly symmetrical, although most are irregular in many respects. The ru ...

On its surface, there are both geologically young areas and much older, darker, and covered with many craters.

It can produce static electricity when negatively charged by applying friction. Because of that, ancient Greeks named amber “elektron,” which became the basis for the word electricity.

Ham, aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket, blasted off on January 31, 1961. “Ham the Astrochimp” was b ...

These craters are less visible than on the other moon because they are filled with regolith (rock dust).