NASA has just calculated an unprecedented trajectory guaranteeing faster and less expensive access to the Moon. These various orbital maneuvers have also been patented. In other words, the various private companies and agencies that would like to benefit from it will have to check out. The most imp

China has just placed a mysterious reusable experimental ship in orbit. Little information has been released about this mission. Nevertheless, it could be a device similar to the X-37B space plane, deployed for a few years by the US Air Force. Chinese authorities on Friday, September 4 launched a L

An Australian telescope has scanned part of the sky for very low frequency extraterrestrial radio signals. But he came back empty-handed. For several years, the SETI program has been working to search for traces of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Universe using radio telescopes. Last year, as

In Australia, geophysicists working for a company prospecting for gold discovered a huge impact crater. The age of the crater has been estimated at around 100 million years. With a diameter of several kilometers, it is quite simply one of the most imposing craters in the world. Five times bigger th

SLAC researchers tested the future camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Chile), recording the first digital snapshots of 3.2 billion pixels in the world. American researchers from SLAC (Stanford Center for Linear Acceleration) have been working since 2015 to build the largest and most powerful

The construction of the main mirror of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope was completed a few days ago. Thanks to it, NASA will be able to observe space with a field of view 100 times greater than that of Hubble. The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope (formerly WFIRST) is, along with the James Webb Telescope

The United States Space Agency has launched an unprecedented call for tenders. It is about paying companies to go to the Moon and take lunar samples. The goal? Make progress on the development strategy for the exploitation of mining resources in space. Prove technology, save money In a tweet posted

Not so long ago, Soviet cosmonauts went to various space stations armed with a three-barreled gun. The goal ? Ability to defend against attacks. Not in space, but in the event of a failed landing. In the 1960s, the potential militarization of space led several countries to draft and sign the United

NASAs famous Mars 2020 mission includes in its program a return of samples. Thus, these would be added to the other samples already taken in Space. How are they stored and preserved? Bring Martian Rocks to Earth Currently and since the end of July 2020, the Perseverance rover continues its journey

The Royal Astronomical Society has just made a potentially groundbreaking announcement. Astronomers have indeed isolated the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus. It is a gas which, on Earth, can be produced by anaerobic bacteria. Venus, once our planets twin, is now considered the worst pl

Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), mutant mice have been the subject of significant study. This research concerns the consequences of life in microgravity on muscle and bone mass. For researchers, its about finding solutions to help combat muscle atrophy in astronauts. Bodybuilt mice In

How many moons does Jupiter have? Today, we know of 79. But according to three Canadian astronomers, there could be many more. In our solar system, moons are discovered every day. In October 2019, in particular, a team of researchers announced the exceptional discovery of twenty new moons around Sa

For years, NASA sent laser signals to its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, without success. The first returns to sender were finally recorded a few months ago. Upon the arrival around the Moon of its probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), in 2009, NASA immediately began firing lasers at it. The ide

Japanese researchers claim to have discovered the largest impact crater in the Solar System. This is found on Ganymede, Jupiters largest moon. The object would have crashed on this satellite at a speed of 20 km/s. It then generated a crater with a radius of 7,800 kilometers! A giant impact crater o

A new model suggests that the shape of the heliosphere, the Suns bubble of influence, has the shape of a deflated crescent, rather than that of a comet at long tail suggested by other research. The heliosphere is the area of ​​influence of the Sun. Generated by solar wind particles, it extends twi

US researchers have come up with a new design for a nuclear power plant. The goal? Send a test reactor to the moon in a few years. However, its design and installation represent a real challenge. Moreover, it is a technology whose ultimate objective would be to contribute to the colonization of Mars

Recently, researchers published the first-ever magnetic map of the solar corona, part of the Suns atmosphere. However, this is an advance that could in the future make it possible to accurately predict solar storms whose impacts on Earth are not negligible. A difficult crown to study Our Sun emits

Surrounding the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered a new star shooting at more than 24,000 kilometers per second, or about 8% of the speed of the light ! But thats not all. While the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is a relatively quiet object

The TESS satellite, a worthy successor to the Kepler telescope, has just completed its two-year main mission with several significant discoveries to its credit. The instrument is now embarking on an extended mission for two more years, with many additional exoplanets in our address book. Put into

NASA engineers have activated the power system of Ingenuity, its small helicopter en route to Mars. This is the first time the rotorcraft has been powered up in the space environment. On July 30, NASAs Mars 2020 mission was launched. Its objective:to deploy the Perseverance rover on the surface of