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…
Immediately after sunset on the evening of December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be in the night sky closer to each other than ever since the Middle Ages, and amateur astronomers around the world will have a unique opportunity to…
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle of SpaceX launched from the Vandenberg Cosmodrome in California and successfully launched the world ocean sensing satellite Sentinel-6, Ilona Mask’s website said on Saturday, November 21. Flight is normal: why Europe’s space successes became possibleMost…
One of the world’s most famous and largest radio telescopes at the Puerto Rican Arecibo telescope will be dismantled due to the threat of collapse. According to engineers, the design has become so unstable that repair is not possible. In…
In 2018, a new atmospheric phenomenon was discovered, reminiscent of the polar lights. In the period from 2015 to 2016. Amateur astronomers reported 30 cases of observations in the sky of a purple strip, just below which, as a rule,…
Theories of the formation of the Milky Way can be revised as a result of a discovery based on the study of the behavior of the oldest stars of our Galaxy. A study of the orbits of the most metal-poor…
The Vega booster failed a few minutes after the launch of 17 November from French Guiana, resulting in the loss of two satellites as a result of the second missile failure in its last three launches. The Vega rocket launched…
A group of astronomers led by Anna Schauer from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, found that the lunar telescope, the idea of which was considered by NASA about 10 years ago, can solve a problem that none of…