NASA has just purchased the rights to four batches of future lunar samples collected by private companies. Total investment amount:US$25,001 only. But why is it so cheap? China is preparing to bring back to Earth the first new lunar samples since the American Apollo program (1969 to 1972) and the S

Astronomers recently released an incredibly detailed image showing us a huge sunspot as it temporarily darkened the surface of our star. We owe this shot to the Daniel K. Inouye solar telescope, currently in the final phase of testing. Sunspots appear as dark imperfections on the surface of our sta

The lander Change 5, which has just collected samples with the aim of returning them to Earth, has unfurled a small version of the five-star red flag from China this Thursday, December 3. In 2012, NASA shared with us the images of the Apollo landing sites taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (

The pandemic context has slowed the activities of many aerospace companies and agencies, but one of them has still managed to stand out:SpaceX. Indeed, the company has just broken its record for launches in one year thanks to the recovery of its boosters. This Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched

Boeings Starliner capsule has just successfully completed its final parachute drop tests. The company is now planning a new test flight to the ISS as early as next year. Small reminder of the context. In 2014, NASA signed up with two private service providers, SpaceX and Boeing, to operate commerci

A recent weather report from our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, suggests that life probably has no chance of developing around it. Located only 4.2 light years away, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun. About four years ago, a team of astronomers from the European Southern

NASA has just selected the group of astronauts for its Artemis program. Among them are the next man and the first woman to walk on the Moon. This highly anticipated mission is due to take place in 2024. Astronauts selected for the Artemis program Three years ago, the Trump administration set a very

In a year, the Artemis program should begin its first mission to the Moon. At the dawn of the realization of this very ambitious project, NASA recently published a report defining its scientific priorities concerning this time the Artemis III mission, the one that will allow astronauts to land on th

The Chang’e’ 5 space capsule has just begun its return journey to deliver new lunar samples to Earth. If successful, China will become the third country to achieve this technical feat after the United States and Russia (ex-USSR). Back home On November 23, China launched its Change 5 mission. The ob

Analyzing a world in an unlikely orbit around a pair of stars gives us clues to the famous, but still hypothetical planet 9 . In 2015, a team of astronomers noticed strange gravitational effects on several objects in the Kuiper belt that wraps our star beyond the orbit of Neptune. To explain this t

The Hayabusa-2 probe returned to Earth on December 6 with samples from the asteroid Ruygu in its luggage. Japanese researchers have just confirmed the alien contents of the capsule, noting in passing that the probe also collected more material than expected. A few years ago, JAXA, the Japanese spac

The European Space Agency (ESA) continues to develop its groundbreaking mission to intercept a comet entering the Solar System. Its launch is scheduled for 2028. Weve visited comets before. On March 13, 1986, the British probe Giotto, for example, approached very close to Halleys comet. In 2016, ES

A team of astronomers announces the detection of radio bursts possibly emitted by an exoplanet. If the discovery is confirmed, it would be a first opening a unique window of observation on the magnetic field of this extraterrestrial world. Looking for signals emitted by a nearby exoplanet In 2018,

After a failure last year, SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit organization, will attempt to land on the Moon again with not one, but two landers. The launch of this ambitious mission is scheduled for the first half of 2024. In February 2019, a spacecraft signed by the Israeli non-profit organization Sp

In a presentation held a few days ago, NASA researchers presented their Mars Dogs, robot-dogs specially developed for evolve over rough terrain. Researchers plan to train them on Earth so they can one day deploy them to the Red Planet. Pushing the limits of Mars exploration Traditional rovers have

The Canadian Space Agency announces that a Canadian astronaut will fly around the Moon in 2023 as part of the first crewed mission of NASAs Artemis program. Objective:prepare for the return of humans to lunar soil in 2024. In 2017, the Trump administration asked NASA to return to the Moon in 2024.

Astronomers recently detected an intriguing radio signal apparently coming from Proxima Centauri, the closest star system to the sun, reports The Guardian. For now, astronomers are still trying to determine its origin. Found about 4.2 light-years away, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Su

New data collected on Mars by Curiosity proves that a mega-flood swept through Gale Crater (where the rover is operating) about four billion years ago . Details of this work are published in Scientific Reports . About four billion years ago, a gigantic body of water at least twenty meters deep move

An artisan living in Indonesia became a millionaire overnight. Indeed, a meteorite crashed in his garden and aroused the interest of an anonymous buyer wishing to repatriate the object to the United States. With the money raised, the young retiree wants to build a church in his country. When millio

The Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently came across a curious metal monolith planted in the middle of the desert. Its origin is still unknown, but many suspect a tribute to the film 2001:A Space Odyssey . The discovery was made a few days ago quite by chance by the crew of a Utah Public