Asteroidi so majhna, kamnita telesa, ki so ostala po nastanku planetov pred 4,5 milijarde…
Zemlja je premična tarča v strelnici. Skoraj vsak dan majhen košček vesoljske skale…
Vsak dan na zemeljsko površino pade približno 50 ton kamnitega materiala iz vesolja. Te skale so…
Marca 1986 se je vesoljsko plovilo Giotto agencije ESA približalo jedru Halleyjevega kometa na razdaljo 600 km. Poslalo je nazaj…
Večina asteroidov je tako majhnih in tako daleč, da jih lahko vidimo le kot drobne pike…
Even with the largest telescopes it is very hard to see much detail on Mars. In the late…
The Cassini-Huygens mission, involving ESA, NASA and the Italian Space Agency, has changed many of our ideas about…
Luna kroži okoli Zemlje že več kot štiri milijarde let. Toda od kod je prišla…
Everyone on Earth is a traveller through space. First, the Earth zooms around the Sun at a speed…
Pictures sent back by spacecraft such as ESA’s Mars Express show that Mars has many large impact craters.…
Studies of fossils in ancient rocks tell us that life probably began about 4 billion years ago, when…
The Moon is too small to hold onto any air. Without any winds, the sunny side is hotter…
Millions of years ago, the Moon was much closer and bigger in the sky. It was also spinning…
Leta 1877 je ameriški astronom Asaph Hall odkril dva majhna lune, ki krožita okoli planeta Marsa. Poimenovali so ju…
Earth is like no other planet that we have yet observed. It is the only world we know…
Saturn has 31 known moons – more than any other planet except Jupiter. One of them, Titan, is…
Saturn is famous as the ‘lord of the rings’, even though the other three giant gas planets –…
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It was thought to be the furthest of the planets…
Mars is often called the ‘Red Planet’ because it appears in the sky as an orange-red star. The…
Earth is the largest of the four rocky planets in our Solar System. It is very heavy for…
Titan is larger than the planet Mercury. It is also the second largest moon in the Solar System,…
In many ways, Mars is the most Earthlike of all the planets. A visitor would find that a…
Most stars take millions of years to die. When a star like the Sun has burned all of…
The Sun is a star. Like most stars, the Sun is a ball of very hot gas that…
We live in one of the arms of a large spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. The Sun…
Tako kot ljudje se tudi zvezde rodijo, starajo in umrejo. Njihova rojstna mesta so ogromni, hladni oblaki…
Večina astronomov meni, da se je vesolje začelo z velikim pokom pred približno 14 milijardami let. Takrat,…
V vesolju nihče ne sliši tvojega kričanja. To je zato, ker v vesolju ni zraka –…
Ne moremo videti ničesar, kar se je zgodilo v prvih 300 000 letih obstoja vesolja. Znanstveniki poskušajo…
Danes znanstveniki niso več tako prepričani, da se je življenje začelo na zemeljski površini ali v njeni bližini. Kamor koli pogledamo,…
