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The USA commented on the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation about the destruction of Starlink satellites

This week, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow considers American commercial satellites working in the interests of Ukraine as “legitimate targets.” The Russian diplomat Kostiantyn Vorontsov did not specify which satellite devices he was referring to. However, it is not difficult to guess that the occupiers consider the satellites of SpaceX, […]

October 29, 2022

NASA sent the D-RATS crew to the desert

The D-RATS crew, made up of representatives from NASA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), will spend a week in the Arizona desert, simulating a stay on the moon and testing prototypes of pressurized all-terrain vehicles. NASA continues to work on technologies that will enable a long-term human stay on the moon during future Artemis […]

October 17, 2022

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SpaceX sent the Crew Dragon-5 spacecraft to the ISS with four crew members, including Russian Anna Kikina (video)

The Crew-5 mission successfully launched on October 5 at noon EST and the first stage launch vehicle landed on the autonomous drone ship. The crew is currently en route to the ISS. The launch was delayed for several days due to the devastating Hurricane Ian that passed through Florida last week, and today the historic […]

October 6, 2022

NASA’s DART probe rammed the asteroid Dimorphos

NASA’s $324.5 million DART mission, which launched last year, is nearing its dramatic climax — on the night of September 27, one of the automated probes is expected to collide with the asteroid satellite Dimorphos at a speed of 6,258.56 m/s. This is the first attempt by mankind to deflect an astronomical object in this […]

September 27, 2022

NASA’s scientific breakthrough: Perseverance rover has discovered a potential source of life on Mars

The spacecraft found Martian rocks with the highest concentration of organic matter of any discovered. Scientists from the Perseverance rover team presented another major report on the spacecraft’s work on Mars. The rover was able to collect rock samples from one of the best places to look for ancient life on the Red Planet, they […]

September 16, 2022

Ukrainian astronomers claim that a large number of UFOs were observed in the sky above Kyiv

Ukrainian scientists in their article, which they recently published, claim that they have seen unknown flying objects (UFOs) more than once. They were spotted in the sky over Kyiv. A preprint of the article was published on the Cornell University archive website arXiv, VICE reports. The research was carried out with the help of two […]

September 15, 2022

James Webb sent new pictures of the Orion Nebula (photo)

As the researchers emphasize, the images reveal complex details of the formation of stars and planetary systems. The James Webb Telescope was hard at work this weekend studying the amazing inner region of the Orion Nebula, Inverse reports. Orion is a constellation in the night sky that can be identified by a ‘belt’ of three […]

September 14, 2022

The most detailed pictures of the Sun have been published

The National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA summarized the first months of operation of the largest ground-based telescope for observing the Sun – the Solar Telescope named after Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) with a mirror with a diameter of 4.24 m. In honor of this, two spectacular images of the star, the […]

September 10, 2022

NASA has released an updated 3D map of the Solar System with the ability to ‘look into the future’

NASA has released an enhanced, detailed interactive Eyes on the Solar System with the ability to rewind time and watch the motion of the planets in real time. An updated version of NASA’s 3D map of the Solar System is now available on Eyes on the Solar System. Specialists have been developing this update for […]

September 7, 2022

The James Webb telescope was the first to photograph a planet outside the solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States was used by astronomers for the first time to obtain images of a planet outside the Solar System. The announcement was published on the official website of the aerospace department. ‘For the first time, astronomers used NASA’s James […]

September 2, 2022