On May 10, 1503, Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands. The navigator Christopher Columbus is known to everyone from his high school geography course as the discoverer of America. But there is another, small, but significant discovery. We are talking…
A team of European astronomers has published a new catalog of celestial bodies located within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) of the Sun. It was compiled from data collected by the Gaia telescope. Its measurements have significantly refined the coordinates,…
A volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted in April of this year. Even though the winds blew much of the eruption away from the island, it still rained tiny pieces of crushed rock and shards of volcanic…
The Perseverance team has published several test pictures taken with the camera included in the MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer) weather station. They show the night sky of the Red Planet. The images were taken on May 4 at three-minute…
Biochemists FITs biotechnology RAS as part of an international team of scientists deciphered the mechanism underlying the activation of orange carotenoid protein – photoreceptor cyanobacteria, protecting them from excessive exposure to light. The creation of a unique mutant variant and…
Falcon 9 first stage makes record tenth flight The Falcon 9 rocket was launched on May 9 from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome. It successfully delivered into orbit the 27th working batch of spacecraft Starlink. But the main focus of the…
The TESS space telescope is designed to detect exoplanets using the transit method. But, as is often the case in astronomy, the device began to be used for additional tasks and managed to make a number of unplanned discoveries. For…
The PSP probe (Parker Solar Probe) passed its eighth perihelion on April 29. This convergence was a record: the device flew at a distance of 10.4 million kilometers (0.07 AU) from the solar surface, and its heliocentric velocity exceeded 532…
Chinese experts have successfully completed the installation of the Changcheng-5B heavy rocket on the launch pad of the Wenchang Cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for April 29, which will be an important milestone for China’s manned space program. The fact…
In 2025, Russia plans to withdraw from the ISS project and start building its own orbital station. A statement to this effect was made by Roscosmos management and published on the corporation’s website. The station will be launched into a…