April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... and certificates were awarded afterwards. The students were taken to space museums and, in Moscow, the old Cosmos pavilion at the Exhibition of Economic and Scientific Achievements, the VDNK (which had languished ignominiously as a car salesroom...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...implemented a series of studies on specialised biological satellites of the Cosmos, Bion and Photon series. On 22 February 1966, the launch... of the artificial satellite Cosmos-110 with dogs Veterok and Ugolek onboard, was ...
October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
... future generations to look beyond our planetary boundaries and consider what might be possible in the broader cosmos. Expanding horizons Space exploration presents significant challenges, particularly when it involves humans. These include costs...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
...-clusters until eventually great long strands of gas spread throughout the cosmos, forming web-like structures as it grew. Now though, it... and colleagues, it doesn't necessarily confirm that the cosmos is packed with fuzzy dark matter. It will take...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... low Earth orbit (LEO) and the test followed the country's on-orbit test manoeuvres of two satellites (COSMOS 2542 and COSMOS 2543) that "exhibited characteristics of a space weapon”, according to a US Space Command Statement. In February, the Space...
06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... they were seeing two 'host' galaxies, deep in the cosmos. “In their centers are two supermassive black holes, squirting out... uncover the nature of dark energy, records data from the cosmos in visible light, whereas ASKAP is designed to look at much...
