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Liquid water is considered to be the main condition for the emergence of life similar to Earth. It has a number of properties that allow it to be a medium for biochemical processes. However, scientists are thinking about what substances on other planets could replace it. Water and other substances may be biological solvents on […]
Two small lunar rovers called LEV1 and LEV2, which Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) managed to free before the landing, took pictures of the inverted lander and transmitted them to Earth. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV2) lunar rover, which is shaped like a ball, […]
This was the second test of the Space Launch System’s engine in less than a week. On January 23, NASA completed the second test of the RS-25 engine, which will power the world’s most powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the Artemis-5 mission to the Moon. The test lasted approximately 8 minutes and was […]
On January 26, Lina Borozdina, a native of Odesa who lives in the United States, will join Virgin Galactic in a suborbital flight of the Unity ship. She will be accompanied by three other space tourists. She wrote about this on her Facebook page, and the information is confirmed by the Virgin Galactic website. “After […]
Scientists have detected an asteroid that flew over the German capital before it burst into flames over the Earth. It has been possible to predict a collision with a celestial body only 8 times in history. The asteroid, named 2024 BXI, was first discovered by Hungarian astronomer Christian Sarnecki. He identified the space rock using […]
A recent NASA satellite photo taken over Canada provides a unique opportunity to look at the Aurora Borealis in infrared light. The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA/NOAA National Polar Orbiting Partnership satellite. The VIIRS instrument, sensitive to emission of faint light in a broad spectral […]
Japan became the fifth country to successfully land on the moon. However, the celebration of this event was short-lived. The SLIM landed at 10:20 a.m. EST, but its solar panels never opened, leaving the device to operate on a battery that would last for several hours. This landing has attracted considerable attention, especially after the […]
NASA opened a container with samples of the asteroid Bennu after several months of attempts and showed a photo of the filling. The image shows the rock that the OSIRIS-REx probe took from the asteroid. According to OSIRIS-REx team member Lindsay Keller, the scientists examined the samples almost at the atomic level. The asteroid Bennu, […]
On Friday, Chinese private company LandSpace completed a series of tests of the reusable Zhuque-3 methane-powered rocket. This is the second privately developed reusable rocket in China that uses environmentally friendly fuel. Earlier, iSpace conducted a series of lifts of the Hyperbola-2 rocket. Thus, while SpaceX is trying to successfully launch the giant Starship rocket, […]
The exoplanet, discovered just 73 light-years away, allows us to see what baby Earth might look like if it were locked in a very narrow orbit with its star. The world is named HD 63433 d, a newborn exoplanet that is only slightly larger than the Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star. It is the smallest […]