Space science

878 asteroids are likely to collide with the Earth in the next 100 years, according to the European Space Agency, quoted by Daily Mail.

This risk should be kept to a minimum because even a small asteroid impact could result in devastating damage, according to scientists at the agency.

A magnetic storm is expected to hit the Earth on the last day of August. The warning is from the Center for Space Weather Forecasts at the US National Agency for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans. The cause of the geomagnetic disturbance is high-speed solar wind. At this stage, the forecast is for a light magnetic storm (G1).

The head of Greece's Geodynamic Institute Akis Tselentis has warned of the prospect of a strong earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale in Athens.

"We must all be prepared," Tselentis said. "We have a beast near us. The Alkionides [islands on the eastern side of the Corinthian Gulf] at some point will groan and woe be unto us. We must be prepared," he stated.

The measurements of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences points out that the geomagnetic activity on Tuesday is much higher than normal. 

In the morning, the Earth's Disturbance Storm Time (Dst) indexreached level 7 of a total of 9 on a scale that corresponds to a strong geomagnetic storm.

Seismic experts are monitoring the area of Ileia in the Peloponnese following Monday's moderate quake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale, Efthimios Lekkas, head of Greece's Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization and director of the Geology and Geoenvironment Faculty at Athens University, told ANT1 TV on Tuesday.

A mild earthquake was recorded near Svoge. This shows a reference to the site of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The quake has a magnitude 2.8 on the Richter scale and has a depth of 21 km. The earthquake was recorded at 19.48.

An earthquake measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale was registered in the area of Petrich at 7.10 this morning, Focus News Agency learnt from the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The quake was registered at a depth of 10 km and there is no information that it was felt.

An asteroid that visited us from interstellar space is one of the most elongated cosmic objects known to science, a study has shown, reported BBC.

Discovered on 19 October, the object's speed and trajectory strongly suggested it originated in a planetary system around another star.

A team of Greek researchers from the Academy of Athens in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University of the United States have performed groundbreaking studies on the solar system.

Scientists from Bulgaria, which is the third country in the world in the production of space food after Russia and the USA, have developed the first space greenhouse on Earth.

The aim of this programme is the production of space food, which does not differ from the genuine taste of food, private NOVA TV station reports.