Astronomy

In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space ...

The book tells about the history of the emergence of the concept of time and the associated paradoxes of the modern scientific picture of the universe. The a...

Why is 22% of the matter in the Universe called dark? Because it is not visible in the traditional sense and even in the optical wavelength range, as ordinar...

Geologist Tim Gregory shows that beneath the charred crusts of these celestial stones lies a stunning variety of rock types. Their unique ingredients, vibran...

The Universe is the great mystery of existence, the alluring mystery of knowledge - the endless overcoming of the boundaries of the unknown. The first step o...

The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tra...

Did the USSR lose the “moon race” to the USA? Why were American astronauts the first to land on the Moon, ahead of Soviet cosmonauts? Could it have been othe...

This is the first book in Russian, almost entirely devoted to the cooling relics of stars, known as white dwarfs. But the fate of almost all stars, except th...

The article was written as a response to the Swiss edition of the book “Aliens” by Americans Doris and David Jones. The book, which describes the possible ap...

The picture of the Universe in scientific books on cosmology and in science fiction looks completely different. “Mastered” by science fiction writers, Space ...

The author describes his attitude to the UFO phenomenon. For this purpose he uses four groups of arguments, which can be conditionally classified as factual,...

Nina Mikhailovna Subbotina (1877–1961) can rightfully be called the Stephen Hawking of Russian science. One of the first Russian women astronomers, she recei...