SpaceX has submitted a plan to the FCC for the first orbital test of its new Starship prototype spacecraft. The test date is unknown at the moment, but company officials have repeatedly said they plan to test it this year.…
On May 15, the landing platform of China’s Tianwen-1 mission made a successful landing on Mars. It delivered the Mars rover Zhuzhong to the surface of the Red Planet. Thus, China became the third country (after the USSR and the…
This photo was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 9. On that day it made its final flyby of the asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu). The purpose of the visit was to map the surface of the small body and…
On May 15, Rocket Lab conducted its 20th launch of the Electron small rocket. The main purpose of the mission was to orbit two BlackSky satellites, designed for remote sensing of the Earth. The company also wanted to re-test the…
Scientists at Belgorod State National Research University (BelSU), together with colleagues from Japan, have been able to increase the accuracy of measurements of particle parameters in colliders several times, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to the authors, the new…
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…