Pan-STARRS1 opened within the review the space object which received name 2020 SO can be on September 17, 2020, the Hawaiian observatory Haleakala artificial. Initially, scientists mistook it for a small asteroid. However, further observations of it showed behavior uncharacteristic…
SpaceIL, a non-profit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed while trying landing on the moon last year, announced yesterday, Wednesday, the planned launch of another lunar mission, whose partners will be Israeli government agencies. This project, called Beresheet 2, involves the…
The ExoMars probe discovered large reserves of ice in one of the deep canyons located in the center of the Mariner valleys of Mars. The results of the study were published by the scientific journal Icarus. “The TGO probe can…
A comet exploded over the Atacama Desert in Chilie. This is the conclusion reached by geologists from the USA. The catastrophe led to the fact that in some places in the desert melted the sand and formed glassy rock. The…
Participation in the international isolation experiment SIRIUS will take three Russians, two Americans and one representative of the UAE. They must spend in isolation for 240 days. It became known participants isolation experiment SIRIUS-21, which will begin November 4 and…
The most unsaturated year for amateur astronomers will end with a real celestial miracle – the Christmas star will light up in the sky! In fact, this event will be a combination in the sky of two planets – Jupiter…
SpaceX completed its first test flight of the prototype of its Starship launch vehicle on December 10, while the device successfully detached from the site, but exploded when trying to land in a few minutes. The Starship SN8 launched from…
Many processes in the universe take place on gigantic time scales, taking billions of years, so to study such a process, astronomers have to prove on the example of several different space objects that these objects are a reflection of…
The company SpaceX launched a new, larger version of its Dragon space truck to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time in the company’s history that two capsules of this model are in orbit at the same time.…
The Japanese space agency is pleased to celebrate today, Tuesday, the return of a small capsule containing samples of asteroid soil obtained using the Hayabusa2 spacecraft (Hayabusa-2), and the agency’s scientists are looking forward to looking inside after all the…
The Indian space agency intends to launch its orbiter into Venus’s Shukrayaan orbit at the end of 2024, which is more than a year later than planned, the ISRO scientist told the planetary science planning committee established by NASA on…
Scientists at the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) of the Slown Digital Sky Survey have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden deep inside our Milky Way galaxy. These results can significantly change modern ideas about the evolutionary path of…