Elon Musk has confirmed that the much-expected Crew Dragon 2 spacecraft test launch that was scheduled to take place on January 17 has been delayed for “about a month.” The unmanned test is crucial to SpaceX, as a successful launch would demonstrate the company’s ability to send humans into space. Delaying SpaceX launch The January ...
The U.S.-Russia space race of the last century ended with America putting a man on the Moon and declaring its technological superiority. This time, it will be China that will challenge American space domination. The landing of the Chang’e 4 probe on the dark side of the Moon on January 3, 2019 is a clear ...
An international team of astronomers, including from the University of Cambridge, discovered the massive object when trawling through data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite. The object, named Antlia 2 (or Ant 2), has avoided detection until now thanks to its extremely low density as well as a perfectly chosen hiding place, behind the ...
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang. The discovery of this approximately 13.5 billion-year-old tiny star means more stars with very low mass and very low metal content are likely out there — perhaps even the universe’s very ...
A team of scientists from Russia and China to modify the sky in a bid to manipulate it for military purposes. The experiments were done on the ionosphere, a layer of atmosphere that lies 75-1,000 km (46-621 miles) above the earth, known to be ionized by cosmic and solar radiation. Russia and China modify the ...
The Chang’e 4 spacecraft, launched by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on December 8, 2018, has reportedly entered orbit around the Moon. It is expected to land on the lunar surface sometime in January 2019. Chang’e 4 closer to the Moon The probe has traveled 240,000 miles to reach the Moon’s orbit. When it ...
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many giant planets have been detected in such a young system. The system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits yet observed: The outermost planet is more than ...
The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a “super-Earth” with a mass of at least 3.2 times that of the Earth, and it orbits around its host star once every 233 days. The results, published in the journal Nature, show the planet lies at a distant region from the star known as the ...
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that lasers on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light — a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light-years away. The research, which author James Clark calls a “feasibility study,” appears ...
An international research team, including The Australian National University (ANU), has used the Kepler space telescope in coordination with ground-based telescopes to witness the first moments of a star dying in unprecedented detail. The astronomers witnessed the star dying a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, as part of a project that ...
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