As part of a federal review process, details of SpaceXs proposed future spaceport in South Texas were released at the end of the week last. Heres what we know. The small village of Boca Chica (Texas), which has no more than twenty inhabitants, currently houses the SpaceX facilities intended to serv

A meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert last year is older than Earth. More interestingly, its age and mineral content suggest that it once formed part of the crust of a forming planet. The pinned meteorite EC 002 was discovered in May 2020 in the Erg Chech sand sea, Algeria. The rock quickly

Heads of the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement on Tuesday to build a research station on the Moon. Other countries are also invited to join the adventure. Dmitry Rogozin, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Zhang Kejian, head of the Chinese National Spac

A team of astronomers announces that they have captured the radio signal of a quasar evolving just 780 million years after the Big Bang. It is the most distant object of its type ever discovered to date. A quasar is a very energetic galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center that ingests a

The Perseverance rovers SuperCam fired its first laser beams at Mars, targeting a rock a few meters away. These operations made it possible to analyze its structure. Once again, these new tests have been successfully completed, now paving the way for the rovers next scientific missions. A first sho

A team of researchers proposes the construction of a Noahs Ark on the Moon to save millions of species of plants and animals. If the project seems technically very complicated, it is nonetheless fascinating. Almost everyone has heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Built to withstand the hard bl

Today and always, astronauts on missions in space consume little fresh food. And yet, when establishing a base on the Moon and a colony on Mars, it will be necessary to find a way to generate food on the spot. Feeding in Space As part of the Proxima mission, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet had occu

A team of researchers hypothesizes the existence of hemispherical tectonic activity on the exoplanet LHS 3844b. It would be the direct result of a significant temperature contrast between its day side and its night side. Their work is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Discovered in 20

In Russia, researchers have placed one of the largest underwater telescopes in the world inside Lake Baikal. Objective:to detect neutrinos, these mysterious particles that could give us answers about the cosmos. Neutrinos, elusive particles Neutrinos are elementary particles 100,000 times smaller t

A team of astronomers announces that they have isolated several clues indicating the possible presence of a giant planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the world. night sky. These results, which remain to be confirmed, are published in The Astrophysical Journal. Vega is the brightest

Opportunity passed away two years ago after fifteen years of good and loyal service. The rover had been caught in a global storm and, too tired, it had never been able to recover. But his story is not over. Good Night Oppy , is a documentary in production from Amazon Studios, Film 45, Amblin Telev

SpaceX has just filed a case with the Federal Communications Commission to connect its network of Starlink satellites to trucks, boats and aircraft. The application was filed on March 5. Starlink is moving forward Since October 2020, several thousand North American users have participated in public

SpaceX released a new batch of sixty Starlink satellites into orbit this Sunday, March 14. Named B1051, the Falcon 9 booster then returned to land successfully at sea for the ninth time. New record for the Falcon 9 Sundays mission (the eighth total flight for SpaceX in 2021) has a special flavor.

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &Smithsonian have spotted a moving supermassive black hole in its own galaxy. Details of the study are published in The Astrophysical Journal. We know that almost every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole. Until now, we thought these

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will join the International Space Station (ISS) for a second time in the spring of 2021 as commander. This is the first time that a French astronaut will lead a space mission. Former airline pilot, Thomas Pesquet (43) became on November 17, 2016 the tenth Frenchman t

Several billions of years ago, liquid water shaped the landscape of Mars, sheltered by a beautiful atmosphere. All that water has since disappeared from the surface. The question is:where did she go? According to researchers at JPL and Caltech, much of it is likely hiding underground. About four bi

A month ago, Perseverance made a memorable landing on the surface of Mars. Since then, the teams have been working to check the rovers instruments. We also have several audio recordings available. Researchers are now gearing up for its next big step in the mission:getting Ingenuity to fly. A month

NASA just signed a deal with Blue Origin to use a modified version of its New Shepard vehicle. The objective will be to offer suborbital flights capable of simulating the reduced gravity felt on the surface of the Moon. As you know, NASA aims to set foot on the Moon, this time aiming for a permanen

A team of astronomers announces the discovery of three new planets orbiting a much younger version of our Sun. The system evolves within the Pisces-Eridanus star stream that spans more than 1,300 light-years. Stellar streams form when our galaxys gravity rips apart star clusters or dwarf galaxies.

When examining the core of a globular cluster near Earth, astronomers expected to stumble upon an elusive object:an intermediate-mass black hole . Eventually, they came across a concentration of small, stellar-mass black holes. Details of the study are published in the journal Astronomy &Astrophysic