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The first metal 3D printer to be used in space is headed to the International Space Station. The Cygnus NG-20 delivery mission, which carries a printer weighing 180 kg, started on Tuesday. Astronaut Andreas Mogensen will install a printer developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency. After that, the spacecraft will be controlled and […]
China plans to send two astronauts to the Moon by 2030. At an event titled “Exhibition of Achievements of the Chinese Manned Space Program,” which opened in Shanghai, China showed models of rockets and spacecraft that the country is developing to send its astronauts to the moon, Space writes. The exhibition features the Chang Zheng-10 […]
The analysis of data collected by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope allowed the researchers to detect a deceptively “quiet” black hole. Its latent activity affects star formation processes throughout the galaxy. How black holes affect their galaxies At the center of almost every large galaxy is a supermassive black hole, whose powerful gravity draws in gas […]
Astronomers have discovered a unique system of planets consisting of six young exoplanets, and possibly a seventh, orbiting the young star TOI-1136. This discovery not only helps to deepen our understanding of the process of formation and development of planets around young stars, but also may be analogous to our solar system in the early […]
The potentially dangerous asteroid, almost 300 meters wide, will not come this close to Earth for almost 200 years. According to scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on Friday evening, February 2, an asteroid 271 meters wide will come to the closest distance to Earth in more than 100 years. It’s almost like three football […]
NASA has shown a photo of the golden glow of the Earth’s atmosphere, which was taken from the International Space Station (ISS), Space reports. Atmospheric glow, or air glow, occurs when sunlight interacts with atoms and molecules in the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. Nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, and ozone molecules are excited by ultraviolet […]
On January 31, Rocket Lab launched four satellites into orbit as part of the Four of a Kind mission, Space reports. The Electron rocket launched from the Rocket Lab in New Zealand at 08:34 Kyiv time, launching four space surveillance satellites (SSA) for NorthStar Earth & Space. The Low Earth Multi-Role Receiver (LEMUR) satellites were […]
Asteroid 2024 BJ, discovered only 10 days before its approach to Earth, was recorded by astronomers of the Virtual Telescope project. It is noted that at the closest distance, the asteroid was only 353,000 kilometers from our planet, which corresponds to about 92% of the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. Participants in […]
As an important step towards creating the conditions for human missions to Mars and beyond, NASA has chosen deep sleep technology for development. The Studying Torpor in Animals for Space-health in Humans (STASH) experiment, developed by researchers from Fauna Bio Inc. aims to study the possibility of inducing “torpor” in humans to reduce health risks […]
On January 29, SpaceX launched two batches of Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from different launch sites in the United States, Space reports. The first Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites was launched from NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:15 Kyiv time. The second Falcon 9 rocket launched another 22 […]