27 feb 2023 om 20:05 You may have noticed the past few evenings: next to the moon, two bright orbs can be seen. Those are not stars, but Jupiter and Venus. Wednesday evening, the two planets appear to be nearly touching each other. Seen from Earth. The real distance between Jupiter and Venus is about … Read more
06 feb 2023 om 22:05Update: 6 minuten geleden Astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that may be home to life. This is exoplanet Wolf 1069 b, which orbits the red dwarf star Wolf 1069. The planet is ‘only’ 31 light years from Earth. Wolf 1069 b is slightly larger than our planet … Read more
The first space rocket launch from Western Europe failed after a flawless start. Space company Virgin Orbit tried to fly nine satellites into space on a Boeing 747 on Monday evening. For a long time the mission seemed to go well. For example, the plane with the rocket under it took off without problems at … Read more
Launching a rocket usually takes place from a well-known launch site such as Cape Canaveral (USA), Baikonoer (Kazakhstan) or Kourou (French Guiana). On Monday it will be the turn of Western Europe for the first time. The satellites are launched south of Ireland over the Atlantic Ocean. Its glow can also be seen from the … Read more
American astronaut Walter Cunningham has died at the age of 90. Cunningham was the last living astronaut on the first successful manned space mission in NASA’s Apollo program. The US space agency confirms the death on social media with a tribute at Cunningham. He was the pilot of the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, which … Read more
NASA briefed on whether Elons Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company can rescue astronauts from International Space Station, news agency reports Reuters. The Russian Soyuz capsule with which the crew would have returned may no longer be usable due to a leak. NASA has asked SpaceX if it is possible to deploy the Dragon Crew capsule to … Read more
15 dec 2022 om 13:39Update: een dag geleden NASA’s InSight lander on Mars detected a magnitude 4.7 Marsquake on May 4. The quake was at least five times as powerful as the strongest earthquake previously recorded on the red planet. This is according to research which is Wednesday published. “This was definitely the largest Martian … Read more
Space company SpaceX launched a large research satellite into orbit on Friday. Scientists will use the artificial satellite to conduct research on, among other things, droughts, floods and coastal erosion due to climate change. The satellite is called SWOT (Topography of surface waters and oceans) and was developed by the American and French space agencies … Read more
It is probable that two planets orbiting a star other than the sun are about half water. That would make them hold more water than Earth, scientists conclude in new research. These are the planets Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d. They are about three times the size of Earth and weigh twice as much. The planets orbit … Read more
The spacewalk of two Russian cosmonauts was canceled at the last minute on Wednesday night. A major flaw had developed in the Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin were already donning their spacesuits and about to begin their spacewalk when the flaw was discovered. They were not … Read more