space Researchers Who Studied a Triple-Star System Retracted Their Paper An international team of researchers has retracted a paper published in 2016 in the Science journal. It focused on the discovery of an exoplanet in the HD 131399 triple-star system.
space Scientists Calculated the Frequency With Which the Moon Experiences Impacts When NASA sent humans to the Moon in 1969, one of the many dangers was the risk of space rocks hitting the astronauts' spacesuits or equipment.
space Hubble Space Telescope Captures the Galactic Angel Wing NASA shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows a deep space object VV689, a system nicknamed the Angel Wing. It can be found in the night sky in the constellation Leo.
space NASA's Perseverance Rover Reaches the Dried-up Delta of an Ancient River Delta was formed billions of years ago at the confluence of a river and crater lake. On its dried-up bottom remained clusters of rocks and prehistoric deposits. These are the best samples to study the emergence and demise of organic life.
space Scientists Plan to Create a New Message for Intelligent Aliens The message will include information on the Earth's principles of communication, the basic mathematical and physical concepts, the structure of DNA, as well as people, and the Earth as a whole.
space The AX-1 Mission Successfully Returned to Earth They flew more than 5 million kilometers, making about 240 orbits around the Earth. During the trip, the AX-1 mission supported 26 science payloads and technology demonstrations.
space Elon Musk Said the Price Point for a Ticket to Mars Is Affordable for Most People The billionaire noted that the price would be based on economic feasibility. Some people might even need to sell their assets to visit Mars.
space OneWeb Signed a Contract to Launch Satellites From India The agreement will allow OneWeb to complete a program to launch satellites and create a constellation of communication satellites in low orbit to provide high-speed connectivity with low latency.
space NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Solar Eclipse on Mars The footage of the solar eclipse on the Red Planet was captured on April 2 as the rover moved toward the dried-up delta of an ancient Martian river that is located near the Jezero crater.
space ESA Tests the Largest Antenna in Hertz Radio Frequency Test Chamber The European Space Agency is testing the world's largest transponder antenna. Its diameter is 5 meters. The device is designed to calibrate BIOMASS, a forest mapping mission designed to map all of the Earth's forests.
space The Universe's Expansion Could Be Coming to an End According to cosmologists, "soon" is within 100 million years. This means that humankind is on the verge of the beginning of the era of the Big Crunch. Physicists published their study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
space Telescope Captures an Image of a Dead Star's Shroud EGB 6 will exist another few thousand years. After that, the stellar core will cool down and turn into a faint white dwarf, which will stop emitting enough ultraviolet light to ionize the ejected envelope.
space Astronomers Discover an Ultra-Faint Satellite of Milky Way Pegasus IV is classified as an ultra-faint galaxy. Such objects are characterized by extremely low brightness but are rich in mysterious dark matter. Ultra-faint galaxies are thought to be very ancient objects, formed shortly after the Big Bang.
space Astronomers Confirm the Existence of Ice Deposits at Mercury's Poles A team of U.S. researchers combined the data it collected with MESSENGER observations and created the most detailed map of water ice deposits on Mercury and even determined its degree of purity.
space LAMOST Discovered Over 1,500 Compact Galaxies Of the 1,417 new compact galaxies, 739 are Green Pea galaxies, 270 are Blueberry galaxies, and 388 are Purple Grape galaxies. These classes of stellar systems have received such strange names relatively recently because of their appearance.
space CAPSTONE Lunar Cubesat Mission Is Ready for Launch It is the first mission undertaken as part of the Gateway near-lunar orbital station program. CAPSTONE will have to test the orbit where the new space outpost of humankind is planned to be placed.
space Jupiter's Twin Was Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away This is the first time in the history of science that the telescope has been able to detect an extrasolar planet through a microlensing event. Kepler wasn't really designed for such observations.
space NASA May Still Rename the James Webb Space Telescope Opponents of the name are calling for the project to be renamed because of the alleged bad reputation of James Webb himself. People remembered that during his time in the federal government, he fueled discrimination against the LGBT community.
space UAE's Hope Probe and NASA's MAVEN Mission to Share Scientific Data NASA said it had reached an agreement to share scientific data between the Emirates Mars Mission and MAVEN mission teams. This should increase the scientific impact of both projects and help unlock the mysteries of the Red Planet.
space Scientists Develop the Most Detailed Model of the Early Universe In order to perform such a large-scale project, 24,576 graphics and 131,072 ordinary processors connected to the Summit supercomputer were used. The calculation process took 10 days.
space Hubble Discovers a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe Until now, the galaxy called GNz7q has been hiding unnoticed in one of the most studied areas of the night sky – the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field.
space Hubble Determines the Size of the Largest Icy Comet Nucleus Comet C/2014 UN271 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein while analyzing images taken as part of the DES (Dark Energy Survey) from 2013 to 2019.
space Sunspot Activity Is Exceeding All Predictions The increase in the number of sunspots will also directly affect the number and power of flares, which can cause communications blackouts, power grid fluctuations and spectacular auroras.
space Astronomers Discover Two Saturn-Mass Exoplanets The discovery was made using the radial-velocity method within the CARMENES survey. The essence of the method is to find the characteristic "wobbles" of stars caused by the gravity of their invisible companions.
space Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Dry Ice on Mars Dry ice is formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere. In midwinter, this frost reaches from the poles down to the middle latitudes, up to 50° latitude.
