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The China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) Chang’e-5 mission blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in a pre-dawn launch on Monday, putting the advanced robotic craft and its Long March-5 carrier rocket – the largest of its kind in China – on course for the Moon. If all goes …

The first three of the day’s five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the Asteroid Watch Widget that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to our planet. 2020 TJ6, measuring 10m in diameter or roughly half a bowling lane, passed …

With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just “not big enough to cause harm” when it buzz-cuts within 5,000 kilometres of Earth on November 2, celebrity scientist deGrasse Tyson wrote on Twitter and Instagram.  So if the World …

A year ago SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell mused about how the Pentagon could use its future heavy launch system Starship. Not to land space marines on Mars, but for the speedy point-to-point delivery of cargo on Earth. The pitch apparently fell on fertile ground, since the …

The Earth is under near-constant threat from space debris in the form of asteroids and meteorites, and this week is no exception, with two smaller space rocks due to buzz the planet today and tomorrow.  Meanwhile, later in the week, NASA gave the ‘heads up’ about three asteroids, each measuring …

The crew of the ship “Elbrus” found in the New Earth, the place of the food depot of Arctic explorers of the 19th century. It’s the opening of the sailors did during task completion Northern delivery to the Islands of the Arctic ocean. “The crew logistics of the Northern fleet …

The who said the threat of infection with the novel coronavirus for a third of the population of the Earth. Expert at the world health organization the Ira Longini noted that the quarantine can only slow but not stop the spread of the disease. NEW YORK, February 14. /TASS/. Infection …

More than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) knew that the changes of weather and climate on Earth are completely natural. In 1958, NASA said that changes in the orbit and axial tilt of the Earth are the reason that climate scientists call the “warming” (or cooling, …

Sudden bursts of radio waves of unknown origin recorded radio telescopes around the world. In order to find the source of a mysterious radiation, astronomers decided to use artificial intelligence. With its help scientists hope to find the answer to what exactly are the measures they have radio signals that …

Sought asylum in Canada, the inhabitants of Kuzbass misleading about “the land of fire” — burning coal Residents of the Kuzbass city of Kiselevsk, sought asylum in Canada because of unbearable living conditions, reported numerous underground fires that began to occur near coal mines surrounding the town. According to them, …