Based on satellite data, a team of researchers reports that the global rate of ice loss has increased by more than 65% over the past two decades. The results of this study are published in The Cryosphere. For the first time, researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have used satellite data to […]
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The Solar Orbiter, jointly developed by ESA and NASA, flew close to Venus for the first time, and took the opportunity to collect some data on our tumultuous neighbor. Launched last February with 10 new instruments on board, the mission of the probe is to study the solar winds, the star’s magnetic field, its eruptions […]
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The size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshade of the James Webb Telescope was recently successfully deployed at NASA facilities. This important milestone brings us closer to its launch planned for next year. The James Webb Telescope is one of the most anticipated space observatories, with a launch normally scheduled for next October. Positioned […]
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The Rocket Lab company sent 30 communications satellites (and a gnome of the creator of Dota 2) into space this Thursday and managed to recover the rocket for future reuse thanks to a series of parachutes. Electron, the company’s rocket, is used to launch small probes into low Earth orbit. In its previous 15 launches, […]
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Named A68, the world’s largest iceberg, is currently heading for the subantarctic island of South Georgia, where it could hit in less than a month. If it were to anchor to the seabed, then the structure could disturb the local wildlife. In 2017, the Midas project, which brings together British researchers with the aim of […]
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New research by Dutch astronomers disputes the explosive study results published a few weeks ago, suggesting the presence of phosphine (and therefore potentially life) in the atmosphere of Venus. In mid-September, a research team led by astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University announced that they had detected phosphine in Venus’s upper atmosphere. The announcement made […]
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Crew-1 space mission delayed to mid-November 2020 Through a statement, NASA stated that the launch of Crew-1 is delayed until November due to work on the engines and tests of the spacecraft. The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 space mission until mid-November 2020 because it […]
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As a Sun-type star age, it begins to swell until it becomes a red giant. When it nears the end of its life, the star finally expels its outer layers of gas, losing up to 80% of its mass. It leaves behind only a dense core, a corpse of a star called a “white dwarf”. […]
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Seven billion years ago, two huge black holes came together to become one. The latter would be of intermediate-mass, an “elusive” class of object. LIGO (United States) and VIRGO (Italy) are the two largest gravitational wave detectors in the world. In September 2015, these two instruments detected their first ripples in the fabric of space-time: […]
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Just minutes after the two American astronauts landed on Sunday, several pleasure boats gathered around the capsule. NASA and SpaceX intend to put in place the necessary means to prevent this from happening again. You may have followed him live. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley landed this Sunday off Florida, successfully closing the Demo-2 mission. […]
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