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8 and a half billion euros, collaborations with the West and a detailed plan that has already started and will be completed in record time: in Beijing they are serious.

A robotic spacecraft as big as a house, equipped with 4 different rovers, just to bring up what you need: on subsequent trips, by 2024, the lander will bring the first "colonists" with him.

The gigantic energy of americium and plutonium allows a range of otherwise unreachable space missions: the UK advances rapidly in this direction.

Tackling fire in a microgravity environment like that of space cabins presents many more headaches than on Earth, but Toyohashi University of Technology has found a brilliant solution, which could find a wider outlet in the future.

The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 wins the record of the first man-made crater on an asteroid. On April 25, 2019, the impact between a copper "bullet" and Ryugu, the celestial body object of the experiment. The image in the post, taken by a probe camera, shows the effects of the impact on the surface (source: ...

Einstein and quantum theory can agree if the possibility of a holographic universe is taken into account: a multidisciplinary study confirms this.

The Martian movie sounded like pure science fiction just a few years ago, with Matt Damon surviving on Martian soil for months on end growing potatoes and producing water. Yet today there are those, like Elon Musk, who dream of bringing as many people as possible to the Red Planet. Other scientists don't reject the idea of ​​...

Many, many galaxies, more than we thought in the past populate the #universe. To date, we can say that the number of galaxies is ten times greater than that known so far. To say it are the space telescopes, first of all Hubble. Published in the Astrophysical Journal, this discovery is due to the group of Christopher Conselice, from the university ...

The famous South African entrepreneur #Elon Musk (naturalized from the United States), has the dream of bringing humanity to #Marte, and more generally to space travel open to all. In his past, he has created an electronic payment giant like PayPal, Tesla Motors cars, and now he wants at all costs ...

Apparently, black holes are not bottomless pits: something always escapes. The theory of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is confirmed.

It is the dream of every #transport company: to start the first private #travels in #space. The future has now arrived, and even private citizens have every right to take a trip to the moon. The decision of the American government to authorize the Moon Express, founded by the Indian tycoon Naveen Jain, ...

Yesterday the number of "alien worlds" that have been discovered by man increased exponentially. There is talk of a thousand new exoplanets. The NASA "Kepler" satellite, in fact, after various problems due to a gyroscope failure, broke a record. A great achievement for science and astronomy: they have been discovered ...

Latest news from space: three 'twin' (or almost similar) planets of Earth have just been identified, potentially capable of hosting life. These are planets that revolve around a dwarf star colder than the Sun, called Trappist-1, which is only 40 light years away from us, in the constellation ...

Elon Musk is serious, and promises to bring people to Mars by 2018. Very little, if we think that there are less than two years to go. Elon Musk, after creating the space travel company SpaceX, once declared that he wanted to die on Mars: his dream is about to become ...

Stephen Hawking doesn't stop, and teams up with investors and wealthy patrons to discover space. The aim is to find life forms, and to reach Alpha Centauri in a few years. Hawking has joined the venture with Russian billionaire and philanthropist Yuri Milner and ...

In science fiction films, a black hole is never missing, a singularity, something that can solve the plot, perhaps making our heroes go back in time. But black holes really do exist, and just yesterday a gigantic, frightening one was discovered: 17 billion times ...

Amazon plans to change our lives, and not just when it comes to purchasing products online. No, Jeff Bezos really wants to take us into space, as tourists, and he promises to do so within two years only. Science fiction or very close reality? It seems that Bezos will start testing flights in the ...

There are no longer any controversies surrounding NASA's development of prototypes of an incredible engine that does not require fuel and can take a spacecraft to Mars in just 10 weeks. The reason is very simple: science cannot explain itself as an engine ...

A few hours before the departure of the first, historic interplanetary mission of India. After a short delay due to small component problems, the journey to Mars of the vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be a reality. It's just the beginning, they let New Delhi know: with the enthusiasm typical of a growing nation ...

ATLAST (The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope) is the acronym that distinguishes the project of the next Hubble Space Telescope: a gem capable of studying and mapping the atmosphere and surface of habitable exoplanets within a radius of 200 light years. The ability to capture light in all its spectrum and ...

The question referred to the fact that it seemed strange to him that we were not receiving any extraterrestrial transmissions from space. If it is true that there are millions of planets similar to ours out there and if at least a small percentage of them have developed intelligent life why are we not receiving any radio transmissions? ...