Located approximately 384,000 kilometers from Earth, the Moon is the eternal companion of our planet. But what would really happen if she disappeared tomorrow? The Moon is leaving us, slowly but surely, moving away about 3 cm/year . 66 million years ago, for example, the day the non-avian dinosaurs

Elon Musk, the companys CEO, announced that SpaceX has begun development of a dedicated platform for its Starship spacecraft at Kennedy Space Launch Complex 39A NASA Center, near Cape Canaveral. Objective:aim for the Moon. A sacred ground In 2014, SpaceX signed a twenty-year lease agreement with NA

NASA has just selected ten new astronaut candidates. After two years of intensive training, they will be likely to join the International Space Station or even walk on the Moon within the decade. Ten future space explorers This is NASAs 23rd class of astronaut candidates since 1959. At the time, se

The third space power to have sent a human into space, China would like to impose its presence on our satellite. With this in mind, the country is working on developing several missions to land astronauts on the Moon as early as the early 2030s. However, this timeline could be shortened. Chinese on

A new audit from NASAs Office of Inspector General (OIG) has just estimated NASAs spending on its Artemis program, which aims to establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by the end of the decade. The bill will be salty. As you know, NASA and its main partners aim to permanently e

At the end of November, the DART mission will launch a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid to change its orbit. The small LICIACube satellite will separate from its companion ten days before impact to film the hostilities. A brand new mission Space agencies are considering different ways to defend

A new telescope called TOLIMAN will soon focus on Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, to probe for the presence of new potentially habitable planets. To do this, the observatory will rely on the radial velocity method. Its launch is planned for the mid-2020s. Located approximately 4.2

A new document signed by ministers from the twenty-two member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) outlines five urgent initiatives to be developed. Among them is the need to develop a European astronaut launch system and a mission to Enceladus, one of Saturns moons. This new document paves th

An American company had already made headlines some time ago for communicating its objective of sending objects into space using of a giant catapult. Recently, first successful tests have taken place for a first prototype on a reduced scale. Only 20% of maximum capacity In 2014, the start-up SpinLa

In October, Indias Chandrayaan-2 orbiter had to adjust its trajectory around the Moon to dodge NASAs LRO probe, according to a recent statement from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). As space debris poses more and more problems in low Earth orbit, the recent evasive maneuver of the Int

The companies Northrop Grumman, AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Michelin will join forces to design and build a new rover. The latter will be used to transport the astronauts of the Artemis program to the Moon. As part of the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions, astronauts were able to move on

An international team of physicists has just made the first-ever detection of candidate neutrinos produced by CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In an article published in the journal Physical Review D, the researchers describe how they observed six interactions in a pilot test conducted in 2018. G

The American probe Parker Solar Probe has just survived its tenth encounter with the Sun, setting two new records in the process. On November 21, the spacecraft approached less than 8.5 million km from the surface of our star, traveling at more than 586,000 km/h. Two new records for NASA Just under

Next fall, after traveling more than seven million miles, a ship will pounce on a small asteroid in an effort to alter its trajectory in the frame of the DART mission. A few years later, a probe named Hera, launched by the European Space Agency, will assess the consequences of this impact. A little

New simulations of long-duration Mars missions suggest that future crews will quickly detach from the control center to evolve independently. The challenges of human exploration of Mars Several agencies aim to send humans to Mars before 2040. To do this, many challenges will have to be overcome. On

Will humanity be prepared if the next pandemic-causing virus is of extraterrestrial origin? The question may seem surprising, but researchers from several countries believe that the risk does exist, even if it is low. Humans contaminate, what about the reverse? According to a publication in the jou

In a recent email sent to his employees, Elon Musk discusses problems with the Raptor engine production line. SpaceX boss says company could even face real risk of bankruptcy if she is unable to fly her Starship at least once every two weeks starting next year. The Raptors are the engines that will

On May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev left Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, more than 350 km above sea level, the country that sent him ceased to exist. He then became, within a few months, the last Soviet citizen. Freshly graduated in mechanical engineering in Le

A team of astronomers announces that they have discovered the pair of supermassive black holes closest to Earth known to date. They are also very close to each other, preparing for a possible upcoming merger. Two nearby black holes The closest supermassive black hole to Earth is none other than Sag

01Data from the European Gaia mission reveals that galaxies traditionally thought to be satellites of the Milky Way are actually new to our cosmic neighborhood. Some will join our galaxy, while others will continue on their way. Often composed of thousands to billions of stars, dwarf galaxies are t