Universe

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has set two new world records for the longest distance and duration reported for lightning flashes, respectively, in Brazil and Argentina. New records for these “mega-lightnings,” verified with state-of-the-art satellite imaging technology, double previous values measured in the United States and France. The findings…

There is hardly a mission in space that has passed without a single strange occurrence. Quite often we have heard confessions from astronauts about unidentified flying objects, strange phenomena, and mysterious whistling or knocking sounds in space. The story of Yang Liwei, the first Chinese…

If you think that now in 2020, everything is bad – the coronavirus, the ruble, oil, and the entire world economy in general – you should know: there were worse times in the history of the Earth. And when I say worse, I mean much…

The more we explore, the more we learn. The more we peer into the Universe, the more we understand how little we know and how much there is left to explore. Now, a new cosmological model suggests that the Universe we live in has a…