16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... it’s a below-average solar cycle, doesn’t mean there is no risk of extreme space weather,” says Doug Biesecker, panel co-chair and solar physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. “The Sun’s impact on our...
27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... reported by Scientific Russia on their website. Among the participants were President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and chair of the meeting, Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev, former Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... over-exploited and under-managed, to the detriment of everyone,” said John Auburn, Astroscale's UK managing director and Co-Chair of the UKspace In-orbit services and manufacturing (IOSM) working group. Space junk is a big problem. Since the...
14 July 2021
Phosphine gas on Venus points to volcanism not life, study says
...atmosphere's sulfuric acid to form phosphine. "The phosphine is not telling us about the biology of Venus," said Lunine, chair of the astronomy department at Cornell. "It's telling us about the geology. Science is pointing to a planet that has active...
