Author: Daniel Tom

This is Valles Marineris and it is one of the largest canyons in the Solar System. It’s more than four times as deep as the Grand Canyon, and its length surpasses the United States from coast to coast. Credit: NASA The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of…

If you had to identify Saturn out of a crowd, you’d most likely know it by its famous rings. They are our solar system’s largest and brightest rings. Extending over 280,000 kilometres from the planet and wide enough to fit six Earths in a row. Saturn won’t look like this for long now. Because its…

A strange anomaly in the sky was observed over Ecuador. If you rotate the video below, you’ll see a peculiar light that isn’t the sun, in case you were wondering. The funnel, which extended to the sky, was also responsible for the brightness. The viral video quickly gained attention from many experts. It was assumed…

Heracleion is located in the middle of the Egyptian coastline, in the Mediterranean Sea. Its privileged location made it the most important city in ancient Egypt, since it was the main international trade port. It is currently submerged about 10 meters below sea level. Heracleion has nothing to do with Heraklion, the capital of Crete.…

Over 400 years ago, Galileo shattered humanity’s understanding of the cosmos when he realized that Earth wasn’t the center of the universe, and that our world orbited the Sun, proving Nicolaus Copernicus’ theory from the 1500s correct. A mere century ago, astronomers believed the Milky Way comprised the entire universe. It wasn’t until 1925, when…

New simulations suggest that when two stars collide, the resulting product can be extremely magnetic, and it may ultimately wind up as a magnetar.   These snapshots of two merging stars in action show the overall strength of the magnetic field in color (yellow is more magnetic), as well as the magnetic field lines (hatching).…

It’s the Secret Plane with secrets. Read this amazing article to discover the 16 secrets of the SR71 Blackbird, the plane that could outrun a missile.       The SR71 Blackbird is, without doubt, one of the most advanced aircraft ever made, and there are many secrets of the SR71 Blackbird. Its beginnings were…

If you really want to intensify your Monday existential dread, NASA has made the sound a black hole makes available. The Alien catchphrase, “In space no one can hear you scream,” may be well known to you, but it doesn’t seem to apply to the noise produced by black holes. The US space agency said…

Andromeda is on a collision course with our galaxy. Now begins the best time of year to capture it with the naked eye. This is what Andromeda galaxy will look like in the night sky if it were brighter. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its neighbor twice its size, Andromeda, are on a collision…

Stratolaunch Prepares for Reported In-Flight Drop Test of Talon Hypersonic Testbed   A tip from one of the most accomplished spotters in the U.S. on Thursday, October 13, 2022, led TheAviationist to the Mojave Air & Space Port to find “Roc”, the world’s largest aircraft, the one-off Stratolaunch, outside of its massive hangar. The next…