According to our current understanding of physics, nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, which is approximately 186,282 miles per second. This is a fundamental principle of Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity. As an...
And What Are The 6 Global Hurricane Seasons? When European explorers travelled to the Caribbean centuries ago they experienced especially violent storms that battered their ships. They would later learn that the local people referred to these storms as hurakan and...
5 Freshly Found In 2023 When we hear so much about deforestation and declining habitats and dwindling species, (at a rate of 273 species a day), it can be a relief to hear that last year scientists discovered in hundreds of new-to-science species. These include an...
How Have Earlier Cultures Interpreted An Eclipse? April 8th, 2024, saw a spectacular total solar eclipse – for the lucky Americans, Mexicans, and Canadians beneath its path at least! Us Britons 4000 miles away to the west will have to settle for a partial...
… And Does Earth Have Any? A quasi-moon, also known as a quasi-satellite, is a celestial body that temporarily orbits a planet, but is not gravitationally bound to it in the same way as a natural moon. Instead, a quasi-moon follows a complicated and often...
