Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are perhaps the most mysterious anomalies in space, many of which have unknown origins. According to a new study, such a burst was discovered coming from a galaxy 500 million light-years away from Earth. It repeats every 16 days. About…
On Wednesday, January 29, two decommissioned satellites may collide over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writes Fox Business, citing a space debris tracking team at LeoLabs, Inc. The satellites have been identified as the decommissioned IRAS space telescope (13777), ...
The TESS space telescope has discovered the first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone, Current Time reports, citing the NASA space agency. The habitable zone is a conditional region in space, which is determined on the basis that conditions on the surface of planets located in this zone will be...
2020 will be remembered for the loss of Russia's almost ten-year monopoly on the delivery of people to the International Space Station (ISS) and China's first return mission from the Moon in more than 40 years. About these and other events in international cosmonautics that happened in the outgoing ...
SpaceX's rocket will send genetically modified mice to the International Space Station as part of a science project. Its purpose is to investigate the loss of muscle and bone function under low gravity conditions. Writes about this "Voice of America". The rocket was launched on Thursday, December 5, ...
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet Hygiea in the solar system, the tiniest such object known to us. The BBC writes about this. Hygeia, named after the ancient Greek goddess of health, is located in the main asteroid belt, orbiting...
NASA has interrupted the live broadcast of two American astronauts into space to announce the death of Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. He was the first person to go into outer space, writes Voice of America. Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch went into outer space today ...
An Israeli and Russian company conducted a successful experiment and used a bioprinter to print a small piece of beef on the International Space Station. Future plans include printing fish and rabbit meat. Meduza writes about this. Israeli company Aleph Farms and Russian private laboratory...
Yuri Malenchenko was not approved as the first deputy head of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) because of his American wife, three sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti. Malenchenko married a native of Russia, Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who has US citizenship in 2003. It was the first in ...
Chinese astronomers have discovered fast repetitive signals emanating from a source that may be three billion light-years from Earth, RIA Novosti reported, citing Xinhua News Agency. The so-called fast radio bursts helped to capture the world's largest spherical radio telescope ...