space

World Monuments Fund adds Moon, Apollo 11 sites to 2025 heritage preservation watch list

Specialists fear planned commercial flights could compromise lunar heritage, including Neil Armstrong’s bootprints.

Elon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket launches two private moon landers

Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.

Planetary parade: Rare alignment of six planets to grace the night sky on January 21

Venus will outshine other planets, appearing brightest in the dusk sky.

China unveils fantastic-sounding plan for gigantic space solar power station

The proposed station aims to revolutionize global energy supply by harnessing the sun's energy from space and transmitting it back to Earth.

SpaceX Starship prototype fails in space after Texas launch

SpaceX had a previous upperstage failure in March 2023, but none that have caused disruption to air traffic.

By REUTERS
17/01/2025

Astronomers detect rare X-ray flares from black hole 1ES 1927+654 caused by a nearby white dwarf

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light.

'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more similar to the Earth-moon system than any other moon in the solar system.

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