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Starliner didn't take off: first manned flight of Boeing spacecraft canceled due to oxygen valve problems

Another launch attempt may be scheduled for Friday, however delays have become typical of the mission due to constant problems with the development of the spacecraft. NASA postponed the launch of Starliner, the first Boeing crewed spacecraft that wa...

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China showed the project of a space base on the Moon - for some reason there was a NASA shuttle, decommissioned back in 2011

The video from the Chinese National Space Administration extensively describes the large lunar outpost, interestingly featuring CGI of a NASA space shuttle taking off from the surface of the Moon. The project is known as the International Lunar Resea...

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Mysterious Inca city on Mars attacked by 'black spiders' - what did satellite images really show?

Arachnophobes can rest easy - new ESA satellite images showing clusters of black spiders on Mars actually reveal a seasonal phenomenon familiar to the planet. Dark funnel-shaped formations were spotted in the city of Inca (southern polar region of Ma...

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Who will pay? Florida resident turned to NASA for compensation - his house was damaged by debris ejected from the ISS

In March, a one-kilogram piece of metal punched through the roof and floor of a two-story house belonging to Florida resident Alejandro Otero. It turned out to be space junk — specifically, a support beam for a battery pallet weighing 2630 kg, which ...

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Ferrari's designer was here - Halo Space showed the interior of a capsule that will "take" you to the stratosphere for $150k.

Halo Space, founded in 2021, offers space tourism services and uses helium balloons instead of rockets or jet planes. The ticket price is currently out of reach for most people, reaching $150,000, although the use of aerostats is significantly cheape...

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"Works like an air defense system". Paris startup creates a jet-powered "boxing glove" that will push space debris out of orbit

Interceptors, a spacecraft, will be launched by a rocket from a specially equipped aircraft. When it reaches the upper layers of the atmosphere, the rocket will ignite its engine, and the spacecraft will detach from it in orbit. The Interceptor will ...

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NASA has confirmed that a cargo pallet prop that was dropped from the ISS back in 2021 has fallen on a house in Florida

Space debris was simply thrown out of the station - it was supposed to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, but one of the fragments "survived" and pierced the roof and floor of a two-story house of a Florida resident. Hello. Looks like one of those ...

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20 times is not the limit. SpaceX updates the record of multiple use of Falcon 9 booster

Do you still remember the famous meme of the SpaceX skeptic "then let's talk"? Today, repeated flights of Falcon 9 rockets into space no longer surprise anyone, but last weekend, SpaceX's main workhorse marked a weighty and even historical achievemen...

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Astronomers have for the first time seen a rainbow outside the solar system - near a distant "hellish planet"

The talk is about the exoplanet WASP-76 b, which delighted researchers with a bright light show, better known as the "glory" - previously it was observed only within the Solar System. Infernal planet WASP-76 b is located approximately 637 light-year...

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Moon 'turned inside out' billions of years ago - and planetologists have proof

What was on the surface of the young Moon moved into the depths of the satellite, and what was inside came out into the light. For decades, scientists have been discussing the possibility that billions of years ago the Moon "turned inside out" - in ...

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NASA has selected three companies that will create a "lunomobile" for the astronauts of the Artemis missions

Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab will participate in NASA's competition to develop a lunar vehicle that will allow movement on the Moon - a contract with a potential value of $4.6 billion for the next 13 years. The Lunar Terra...

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The White House has directed NASA to create a "new time zone" for the moon by 2026

Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) will establish an official time that will help manage future lunar missions. The memorandum, made public by the Biden administration on Tuesday, envisions collaboration between NASA and the Departments of Commerce, Defen...

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Space debris fell on a Florida home - probably from the International Space Station

A few weeks ago, a 1 kg fragment pierced the roof of Alejandro Otero's two-story house in Florida. The Nest camera captured the noise at 14:34 local time - this is important because at 14:29, space debris re-entered the atmosphere from the ISS. At th...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Since the 1980s, physicists have claimed that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, but its first "photo" was obtained only two years ago (and another one now) — thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time, as...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Physicists have been claiming since 1980 that in the center of the Milky Way there is a supermassive black hole, but its first "photos" were obtained only two years ago (and one more now) - thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time astr...

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