Category: Science

The red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 incorporates the largest number of Earth-sized planets ever discovered outside of our Solar System. According to a recent study, all of these exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, providing new clues to their composition. The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system in 2017, just 39 light years from Earth, made headlines. And […]

Asteroid 2020 WU5 is heading toward Earth, according to NASA astronomers. This celestial body was discovered on November 29, 2020 with the help of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Space Telescope. On December 4, it was included in the International Astronomical Union (IAU) minor planets electronic circular. It belongs to the group of “Apollos”, near […]

Elon Musk’s company has in mind the recovery of the Super Heavy rocket, with which it will put the Starship spacecraft into orbit, after each launch. The idea is for it to land, once it has launched the ship, in the same launch tower. “We will try to catch the Super Heavy rocket with the […]

South Korea recently managed to maintain a fusion plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for twenty seconds in its experimental reactor. This is a record, and one more step towards mastering nuclear fusion, developed by the Sun. For several years, several countries armed with their greatest engineers have turned to a source of energy: nuclear […]

Analysis of a small fragment of a meteorite that fell to Earth a dozen years ago has identified a new parent body once as massive as the dwarf planet Ceres. In 2008, an asteroid (2008 TC3) about four meters in diameter and weighing about nine tons entered Earth’s atmosphere before exploding in addition to 600 […]

China just successfully launched its new medium lift Long March 8 rocket for the first time on Tuesday. Eventually, it is also possible that these launchers will be reusable. Long March 8 has officially entered the list of Chinese launchers in operation. The rocket lifted off from the launch site in Wenchang, southern China, at […]

Although 2020 is not yet over, it could be the hottest year in France since 1900. However, this information will be confirmed at the end of the year. In any case, 2020 will occupy one of the first three places in the ranking. In the Top 3 hottest years the average annual temperature across the […]

Moon Mark, in collaboration with Intuitive Machines, will feature a remote control car race in October 2021 on the Moon. An ambitious project which aims to involve the young generation in the design of new space technologies. Yes, you heard that right, small remote control cars are scheduled to race on the moon as early […]

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been on a mission for a while collecting information from the surface of Mars. Recently the spacecraft was able to discover catastrophic evidence that occurred on the red planet approximately four billion years ago. The scientists of the space agency published the report in the journal Scientific Reports, where they affirm […]

An asteroid was about to impact the Earth last Friday, November 13, when it passed almost 400 kilometers from the South Pacific. The space rock, named 2020 VT4, was detected by the Asteroid Earth Impact Last Warning System (Atlas) at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, according to the Universe Today portal. “Asteroid-2020 VT4 is […]