The European Space Agency (ESA) has just announced its plan to establish a network of satellites around the Moon. The project, called Moonlight, will aim to support a permanent human presence by facilitating space navigation around our satellite. It will also discuss preparing the way for manned mis

In a few weeks, four civilians will travel with SpaceX around the planet without the presence of a professional astronaut. In the meantime, its time to prepare. On the program:centrifuge, climbing and flying lessons. Jared Isaacman, Founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments; Hayley Arceneaux, employee of

Firelfly Aerospace has chosen SpaceX to launch its Blue Ghost lander to the Moon in 2023. On site, the vehicle will unload a dozen payloads on behalf of NASA . Last February, NASA set its sights on Firefly Aerospace to deliver a set of ten payloads of research on the Moon in 2023 under its Commerci

The Chinese government has just announced the creation of a group dedicated to the development and operation of constellations totaling nearly 13,000 broadband satellites. These will be added to the American constellations developed by SpaceX and Amazon. Chinas State-owned Assets Supervision and Ad

A team of astronomers announces that they have identified the oldest known spiral galaxy in the universe, formed around 12.4 billion years ago. This work could allow us to learn more about the origin and fate of our own galaxy. Details of the study are published in the journal Science. A very old s

A few months ago, astrophysicists spotted the largest flare ever recorded on the star Proxima Centauri, the suns closest stellar neighbor. Details of the study are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Located just over four light years from Earth, Proxima Centauri is of interest to the s

A few days ago, Ingenuity made aerospace history by hovering over Jezero Crater. We now know that it is possible to fly on Mars. Enough to free up new mission options in the future. And NASA is already thinking about it. You havent missed it. On April 19, NASA achieved the feat of flying its small

On Monday, Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office challenging NASAs choice to select only SpaceX to supply its next lunar lander. Last year, NASA announced the awarding of three contracts to Blue Origin, Dynetics and Sp

The gnomon is a rudimentary piece of wood planted in the ground, very used during Antiquity in Babylon. L The idea was recovered in order to determine the geographic North of the planet Mars as part of NASAs InSight mission. A kind of gnomon in the InSight probe More than 4,000 years ago, the Babyl

During its first months of operation, the James Webb Telescope will focus on two planetary systems hosting giant worlds that are still very young. The main objective of these missions will be to determine how these planets form. A few days after its launch next October, the James Webb Telescope wil

The core module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS) lifted off this Thursday, April 29. A dozen additional launches are already planned to complete its assembly by the end of 2022. The International Space Station (ISS) is the only space laboratory currently in orbit, but not for very long. China has

Astronaut Michael Collins died this Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The man was particularly famous during the Apollo 11 mission as a pilot of the Columbia spacecraft . While his two colleagues made history on the surface, Collins found himself alone for more than 45 minutes as he passed on the other sid

For decades, UFOs have unleashed passions and often do not leave skeptics indifferent . A US journalist recently detailed his theory that could explain this type of phenomenon. For the interested party, UFOs would only be drones for the general public. Classic drones sent by other countries First o

How to react in case of possible impact? Will we even have the means to respond to this threat? What should we develop to better prepare ourselves? These are the questions that a group of researchers had to answer during a simulation. Simulate the arrival of an asteroid As far as we know, no known

China and Russia have officially invited other countries to join their future lunar base project. Other details have also emerged with a first phase of activities which could begin as early as 2025. Heads of the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement last March to build a research s

Despite numerous complaints, SpaceX will be able to adjust the orbits of several thousand of these Starlink satellites. They will evolve lower than expected, in the vicinity of those soon deployed by Amazon. The Federal Communications Commission has just granted SpaceX permission to operate 2,814 o

NASA is so pleased with the progress made by Ingenuity that the latter will play extra time. And incidentally, he will go up in rank. Over the next thirty sols (Martian days), the small helicopter will help Perseverance locate sites and other interesting targets to explore. Unheard of on another pla

Chinas next manned space mission, the first since 2016, will normally launch next June. During this mission, three taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) will integrate the central module of their new station. The International Space Station (ISS) is no longer the only space laboratory currently in orbit.

A NASA team is working on the development of a new mission to probe the interstellar medium. This very ambitious project would aim to answer the questions that the Voyager probes could not help answer. The Voyager 1 and 2 probes have been evolving for a few years in interstellar space. Here, where

The Chinese Space Station (CSS) Core Module successfully lifted off this Thursday, April 29 aboard a Long March 5B rocket. The launchers booster is about to re-enter the Earths atmosphere, but it is not yet known exactly where or when this debris will hit our planet. The first stage of Chinas Long