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A 2.9-ton cargo pallet used for a battery modernization mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is flying toward Earth. It will soon re-enter the planet’s atmosphere, Gizmodo reports. The pallet was ejected from the ISS in 2021 and is expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere. However, Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell notes that the pallet […]
A Chinese scientific expedition is preparing to drill a huge ice lake in Antarctica. This ambitious project can help reveal the secrets of the continent’s unique ecosystem and the possibility of the existence of various life forms that have been able to adapt to extreme conditions. This was reported by Xinhua. We are talking about […]
The researchers were able to name the most dangerous places during a thunderstorm where lightning strikes most often. Lightning sparkles during thunderstorms at least 60 times per second all over the planet, and sometimes they can be found even near the North Pole. Each giant spark of electricity travels through the atmosphere at a speed […]
Researchers have obtained evidence of the existence of the fastest moving crack in the ice sheet. The climate crisis that has hit the planet has a particularly dangerous impact on the ice-covered continent. Scientists have been studying glacial melting in Antarctica for years to predict the rate of ice loss and the consequences of this […]
About 20 meters of space in Earth’s orbit saved the American NASA satellite TIMED from colliding with the inoperable Russian Cosmos-2221 spacecraft. LeoLabs announced this on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The company said that the collision between the two satellites almost occurred around 04:30 Kyiv time. The LeoLabs equipment recorded that at the […]
During the close approach of 2008 OS7 to the Earth on February 2, the Deep Space Network’s planetary radar collected the first detailed images of the stadium-sized asteroid. On February 2, a large asteroid flew safely past the Earth at a distance of approximately 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7.5 times the distance […]
By 2050, Mars will be home to at least a million people. They will be delivered there by a flotilla of Starship spacecraft. This is the biggest dream of the American inventor and billionaire Elon Musk, which he shared a few years ago on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The talented engineer, who is […]
NASA has shown radar images showing a stadium-sized asteroid flying past the Earth, Space reports. Asteroid 2008 OS7 flew past the Earth on February 2 at a distance of 2.9 million km, which is about 7.5 times further than the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Although there was no risk that the asteroid […]
During a walk in the Polish forests last November, Petro Horlach of the Yaroslavl Historical Research Society discovered a very rare artifact near the village of Korzenytsia: the blade of a copper dagger. The discoverer reported the valuable find to the restorer of the monuments of Podkarpacie in Przemysl, as well as to archaeologists from […]
NASA astronaut Jasmine Mogbeli has taken pictures of the green aurora from the International Space Station (ISS), Space reports. “The aurora borealis is spectacular from here” Jasmine Mogbeli Mogbeli saw the aurora on February 15. She noted that it was one of the highlights of her space mission. The Aurora Borealis occurs on Earth when […]