The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) vehicle was mounted on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and launched starting at 22:20 Pacific time on Tuesday (01:20 Eastern on Wednesday). This is NASA’s first ‘planetary defense’ mission in the $330 million program, and the first time SpaceX launched a spacecraft to …
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Perhaps Proxima Centauri has a multi-component planetary system. The ALMA telescope in Chile have registered the dust around the star Proxima Centauri. This indicates the presence of a planetary system of the star, reports UKRINFORM with reference to the European southern Observatory. So, the glow of cold dust observed at …
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American astronomers calculated that two satellites of Uranus, Cressida and Desdemona, will face each other.However, the collision will happen in about a million years. An employee of the University of Idaho Robert Kenia studied Cressida, and concluded that its mass will be one of the causes of death of the …
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The statement of the Russian President sounds pretty ominous. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the injection of war hysteria against the DPRK may lead to global planetary catastrophe. “In these conditions, whipping up war hysteria, it will lead to no good. This might lead to global planetary catastrophe. And …
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On Venus there may be some elements of tectonic activity. French and American scientists have shown that the modern lithosphere of Venus crack and reminds of the ancient earth’s crust. A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Experts in the laboratory have reproduced the conditions which, according to them, …
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