An alleged threat to national security has shaken Washington in recent hours. According to the Administration of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, Russia He would be designing new weapons to shoot down foreign satellites in space. This information, which arose from a leak from Congress, has generated all kinds of speculation, but […]
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US space company optimistic about next Moon mission despite failure
The director of the American space companywhose module lunar landing failed this week in its mission to reach the Moonexpressed optimism Friday that the next attempt will achieve its goal. “Now I am more confident than ever that our next mission will be successful and land on the surface of the Moon“, declared John Thornton, […]
Blue Origin returns to space after a year-long hiatus
A New Shepard rocket Blue Origin took off this Tuesday Texasa success that marks the return to space of the company founded by the American millionaire Jeff Bezos more than a year after an accident. Ten minutes after takeoff, the NS-24 unmanned mission capsule, containing scientific material, landed in the desert, according to a live […]
Scientists show how to make lunar soil fertile for agriculture
If the humanity establishes long-term foundations in the Moon, you will need a regular source of food. However, it is not practical to think that you can plant corn either wheat in greenhouses on flat lunar soil on the Moon and expect a bountiful harvest, or none at all. But scientists are taking steps to […]
NASA launches spacecraft to explore metal-rich asteroid Psyche
The POT launched on Friday a spacecraft from Florida toward Psyche, the largest of several known metal-rich asteroids in our solar system and which scientists believe is the remnant core of an ancient protoplanet, offering clues to the formation of Earth. The Psyche probe, folded in the cargo compartment of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, […]
NASA presents new carbon-rich asteroid sample
On Wednesday, the POT released a first look at what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to the Land last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample extracted from the surface of a asteroidincluding clay minerals that contain water. A small amount of material collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from […]
NASA collects first samples of asteroid that fell to Earth
The first samples of a asteroid collected by the POT in deep space parachuted into a capsule over the Utah desert on Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule with the samples at an altitude of 100,000 kilometers (63,000 miles). The small capsule landed four […]
First sample of an asteroid taken by NASA will land by parachute
The first mission of the Pot to retrieve a sample of asteroid and return to American soil is expected on Sunday in a dangerous descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope that the material – possibly the most abundant recovered by such a mission – will give humanity a better understanding of the formation of […]
Sunday will be the best day to see Comet Nishimura, which will not return for 434 years
He kite Nishimura, which was discovered on August 12 by an amateur astronomer, can now be seen from the Landalthough the best day to appreciate all its splendor will be during the evening of Sunday the 17th, then it will pass by and will not return for 434 years. “In recent days, the comet has […]
NASA announces creation of a department to study UFOs
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced this Thursday the creation of a department specialized in the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, in English), which will try to make sense of the “anomalies in the skies” that are frequently found. “We will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to search for anomalies in the skies and […]