Far beyond all planets, a boulder rotates in orbit around the sun. It is the furthest object in the solar system that has been discovered so far. The distance from the sun to the rock is 120 times the...
At the edge of our solar system, far beyond all planets, there is a mysterious object. It is a small boulder that takes 44,000 years to orbit around our sun.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised his compatriots to gradually raise the minimum wage and pensions in the coming months and years and to reduce the tax burden. However, the country can only be stabilized for the long term if the reforms continue and investments are made.
The American probe New Horizons has been taken out of hibernation. With a speed of almost 1.25 million kilometers a day, she sets course for Ultima Thule in the Kuiper belt. The spacecraft, which made spectacular photos of Pluto and its biggest moon Charon in 2015, has to fly past that boulder on New Year's Day, make images and take measurements. This then becomes the furthest object studied closely by man.
Our solar system appears to have an immigrant. It is a rock that came from outside our system and stayed here. It is the first time that such a \u0026 aposoid has been found.
A distant space rock that will receive a visit from the earth next year has been given a name. The block 2014 MU69, past Pluto, is now called Ultima Thule. For the Greeks and Romans, Thule was a mythical island in the far north. Ultima Thule, which means 'beyond Thule', indicates that the probe goes 'beyond the limits of the known world'.
Our solar system has been visited outside for the first time. An asteroid that originates from the endless space between the stars has surfaced in our environment in recent weeks.
An asteroid the size of the Rock of Gibraltar next week skims along the earth. Although there is no chance he touches the earth NASA calls it 'a very close approach of an asteroid this size.'
A French artist who was previously in the news because he was shut for a week in a stone, has a new project. He's in the next month on a nest to hatch a dozen eggs with his body heat.
The French artist Abraham Poincheval survive the next week not covered, but in a stone. Wednesday afternoon, he let himself locked up in a gallery in Paris.
The contractions of the pregnant Sosha Adelstein in Colorado had already begun, but that did not stop her from needing to use its voting rights.
The discoverer of the comet where Europe has performed a historic landing in 2014, is deceased. Ukrainian astronomer Klim Tsjoerjoemov died Saturday. He was 79 years old. The 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko is named after him.
"The summer of 2016 was a bad year for ice in the Arctic. In 2012 disappeared after previously much ice in the Arctic region. The state last summer along with that of 2007 in second place."
A girl of seven years old died at the zoo in the Moroccan city Rabat by a stone hurled by an elephant at her side. The animal had the stone taken up with his trunk and hurled the boulder then to the public.
A comet appears to contain two important building blocks of life on Earth. The boulder 67P / Tsjoerjoemov-Gerasimenko are glycine and phosphorus. That the University of Bern and the European Space Agency announced Friday.
A jury in Boulder in the US state of Colorado has convicted a 36-year-old woman of murder because an unborn child was cut from the abdomen with another woman. The baby did not survive, the mother was seriously injured but survived.
A group of international scientists has discovered an enormous icy abyss under the ice of Antarctica. They speak of a 1 100-kilometer gap. No ravine on earth is so big, reports the journal Geology, the journal of the prestigious Geological Society of America.
The colossal space rock " Spooky " that Saturday ' narrowly ' skims past our planet at a speed of 125,000 kilometers per hour does its name proud. The asteroid looks like a skull.
' Spooky ' is coming! The colossal space rock, with the official name TB145, shaves next Saturday at a speed of 125,000 kilometers per hour ' narrowly ' along our earth.
Pluto may compared to Earth barely have an atmosphere, what little gas around the dwarf planet seems something in the atmosphere around our planet. New color photos of the New Horizons probe has sent back, clearly shows a blue shell around Pluto.
