4.03.2020 13:57 (Act 4.03.2020 14:19) – – – At the beginning of the year, NASA made a similar discovery with the “TOI 700 d”. © AFP PHOTO / NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER – – – This astronomy student made an incredible discovery: Michelle Kunimoto discovered 17 new exoplanets. One of them is causing a … Read more
<div id = "firstBodyDiv" data-bind-html-content-type = "article" data-bind-html-compile = "article.body" data-first-article-body = " A series of research papers focuses on 174 earthquakes that were monitored during last September, 24 of which are relatively strong, between 3 and 4 degrees, and may result from distant activities. The remaining tremors were less powerful and anonymous on a … Read more
Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first trip to space, died Monday, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Johnson was 101 years old. According to a biography on NASA’s website, Johnson was one of three African-American students to integrate West Virginia University’s graduate schools. At 13, Johnson attended the high school … Read more
The first results provided by the Seis seismometer during its first year of operations on Mars were released today. They show that the planet Mars is seismically active but with a seismicity very different from that of Earth. Explanations from Philippe Lognonné, architect of the Seis seismometer, scientific manager and principal investigator of the mission, … Read more
It is done. The Solar Orbiter probe took off early this morning towards the Sun. A journey of several years awaits him, marked by numerous gravitational assistance which will allow him to approach only 42 million kilometers from the Sun! It will also study its poles from a position never reached by a probe. – … Read more
The Solar Orbiter probe is ready for launch. During the night of February 9 to 10, 2020, from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA (Florida), the Solar Orbiter probe will leave in the direction of the Sun for a mission that will make significant progress in our knowledge of the Sun and heliosphere. Its launch … Read more
The mission, which is estimated to be almost 1.5 billion euros in total and in which several German research institutes are involved, is intended to provide many new insights into the star, which is around 150 million kilometers away. The joint project between the US space agency NASA and its European counterpart ESA has ten … Read more
NASA wants Boeing to examine the Starliner capsule software because there various errors in the software. These errors could have had “catastrophic” consequences, news agency reports, among others Reuters. In December, Starliner was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time, but due to an error, the vehicle did not end up … Read more
The “Solar Orbiter” probe is due to launch on February 8 from the Cape Canaveral spaceport (USA). Image: APA / ESA / ATG Medialab / Nasa It is omnipresent and yet still full of riddles: the sun. A new mission into space should now create clarity. The “Solar Orbiter” is supposed to provide images of … Read more
On the surface of Pluto stands a gigantic structure in the shape of a heart. A heart of frozen nitrogen that beats. And that makes the winds blow on the dwarf planet. In a rather surprising way. – It has been 114 years, almost to the day, that William Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, was … Read more