Science and space

SpaceX has announced the next Starship launch. It will take place on the day of «Pi» March 14.

SpaceX has announced the date of the third Starship test flight. It will take place on the day of March…

06.03.2024

SpaceX has launched three Falcon 9s in less than a day, two of them — in a record-breaking 1 hour and 51 minutes.

In less than a day after the launch of the crew to the ISS, SpaceX delivered 53 commercial satellites (including…

06.03.2024

Webb telescope «peered» into the most distant galaxy known — it existed when the Universe was only 430 million years old

The galaxy GN-z11 was first discovered by the Hubble telescope, and now its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has…

05.03.2024

Contrary to the laws of physics: Oxford scientists have discovered that particles with the same charge can still attract each other

The basic principle of physics is that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same —…

04.03.2024

This is how the re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere looks like «through the eyes» of the Varda Space space capsule

The company installed a camera on its private W-1 capsule to capture its first mission to return to Earth. The…

04.03.2024

A scientific journal retracts an article with an AI-generated illustration of a rat «with a disproportionately large genital organ»

An open-access article that contained bizarre, artificially intelligent-generated images of rat genitals, unclear graphics, and captions was withdrawn by the…

01.03.2024

SpaceX reveals the cause of Starship anomalies that caused delays from the FAA

Three months after preliminary launch of the Starship launch vehicleThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed an investigation into…

27.02.2024

The Odysseus mission will soon run out of power, and Japan’s first lunar module suddenly «woke up» after a two-week night

Last week, the Intuitive Machine's Odysseus spacecraft finally landed on the moon, although the mission was not without its challenges…

27.02.2024

Astronomers have discovered two unknown moons of Neptune and one of Uranus — in total, the planets have 16 and 28

Thanks to ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered three previously unknown satellites in the space around Uranus and Neptune: one orbiting…

27.02.2024

The Odysseus mission on the Moon almost crashed, due to a switched off switch — saved by luck and skill

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft experienced difficulties and was nearly lost due to a human error — a switch not turned…

25.02.2024

SpaceX has requested permission from the FAA for at least 9 test launches of Starship this year

SpaceX is approaching the first Starship launch in 2024 from its Starbase in Texas, probably in three weeks. But the…

23.02.2024

Odysseus has managed to land on the Moon. It is the first American in 50 years and the first private vehicle on the Earth’s natural satellite

The Odysseus spacecraft of the Houston-based private company Intuitive Machines has successfully landed on the lunar surface. This is the…

23.02.2024

A newly discovered black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns is swallowing another one every day. Its disk — 7 light-years in diameter

The Sun has a mass of about 330,000 times that of the Earth, but this figure is dwarfed by the…

21.02.2024

Fingerprints can be played back by the sounds of finger movement on the touch screen — research

A research team from the United States and China has uncovered a new danger associated with biometric authentication. Their work…

20.02.2024

The ADRAS-J satellite, designed to combat space debris, has entered orbit and headed for its target

On February 18, Rocket Lab successfully launched the ADRAS-J satellite of the Japanese company Astroscale into space using an Electron…

19.02.2024

The Intuitive Machines lunar vehicle has sent home its first images from space

Intuitive Machines' Nova-C spacecraft, which was sent into space on February 15, has sent back the first incredible images of…

19.02.2024

The scientific journal illustrated the article with an artificially intelligent generated rat «with a disproportionately large genital organ»

This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published a study that used fake images made with…

16.02.2024

$1.2 billion investment, almost 10 years and 121 g of «prey» – the result of the mission to the asteroid Bennu

NASA has released the total mass of the Bennu asteroid sample that was delivered to Earth last fall. Thus, the…

16.02.2024