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NASA will hold a major event on Monday (26), at 2 pm, to announce an “exciting” discovery about the Moon. The space agency did not reveal details about the novelty, but suggested that “contribute to its efforts to learn about it the Moon and support the exploration of deep space “. NASA said the discovery … Read more

NASA is intensely preparing to take the man back to the Moon. The Artemis mission is scheduled for 2024, but the agency is already dedicated to the development of the spacecraft that will transport the astronauts and an almost prosaic device: a camera. Engineers have been working at ExoCam for about a year. With the … Read more

An animal with a very curious appearance has been found in recent days in the eastern US state of Virginia, in the United States. The being known as the pus caterpillar is frequently appearing in parks and scared residents, because although it looks like a handful of hair, it is a poisonous animal. According to … Read more

The Icelandic supermarket chain Iceland Foods recently completed 50 years of activity and celebrated the occasion in the most unusual way possible: from its central office located in Deeside, a densely industrial region in northern Wales, the company launched a nugget of chicken into the terrestrial stratosphere. The action was not without reason, strange as … Read more

Almost everything is ready for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, which at 1,300 kilometers high will be tasked with collecting sea level measurements with an accuracy of a few centimeters for more than 90% of the world’s oceans. The equipment will take off on November 10 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket … Read more

Two large pieces of space debris can collide in space today. According to astronomer Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, one of the objects involved could be Parus, an extinct Soviet satellite, and the other could be part of a Chinese rocket. The meeting must take place 991 kilometers above the South Atlantic … Read more

Three hours and three minutes. This is the time that separates the cosmopolitan of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, from the International Space Station. The new flight plan was tested today: the Soyuz MS-17 mission took off at 2:45 am by the time in Braslia with astronaut Kate Rubins, from the United States, and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov … Read more

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, revealed that it has sent the first updated Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft, model adapted for cargo transportation, to Florida, United States, from where its vehicles are launched. At the same time, SpaceX is preparing to launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft, specially designed to transport crew members, as part of the … Read more

Columned to the scientific news platform Live Science, astrophysicist Paul Sutter commented on the surprising implications found in new research on a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain an inner “fractal universe” that would break all laws of physics. “It would be a fractal mini-universe, repeating itself infinitely from large to small scales,” … Read more

Using public astronomical data and an Artificial Intelligence algorithm, researchers at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hava no Mānoa produced the largest 3D catalog of stars, galaxies and quasars in the world. The file, of approximately 300 GB, is available for consultation by scientists and enthusiasts. The team used data from the … Read more

What we are used to calling “speed of sound” actually the speed that sound waves reach in the air, at a temperature of 20C: approximately 343 meters per second. But this can vary depending on the temperature and material. For example, at an atmospheric temperature of -10 C, the speed drops to 325 m / … Read more