The Nobel Prize in Physics for James Peebles is well deserved. But I have mixed feelings about the award for the Swiss: their work is part of a series of studies, to which Polish scientists had significantly contributed, physicist Prof. Krzysztof Meissner commented the decision of the Nobel Committee.
Earth is currently the only planet on which humans live. This is not good because it is threatened, for example by cosmic events. We should start thinking about risk diversification and, for example, living on Mars, Dr. Weronika Śliwa from the Copernicus Science Centre says in an interview with PAP.
In Kielce, 28 teams of young constructors from 12 countries started the competition in the 5th edition of the European Rover Challenge. The event is accompanied by a space industry and business conference.
Ciri, Wolin or Boruta could be the name of the planet discovered by Polish astronomers led by Prof. A. Niedzielski. You can vote for the name of the planet and its star until the end of October, choosing between previously submitted 7 Polish proposals.
The idea of billionaire Elon Musk to drop nuclear bombs on Mars ice caps in order to change the atmosphere of this planet is unrealisable, says Dr. Weronika Śliwa from the Copernicus Science Centre. In her opinion, no technology available today could allow to handle this task.
The first European commercial electric satellite will be built with the participation of Polish engineers. They will design and build a set of ground-based equipment supporting satellite assembly as part of the Electra project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA).
A unique 3D map of the Milky Way was presented in the prestigious journal Science by scientists from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw working in the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) project. The map provides new information on the history of our galaxy.
The search for gravitational waves that are a remnant of the process that took place at the beginning of the Universe`s existence, which could resemble... water boiling is the topic of research, in which Polish theoretical physicist Dr. Bogumiła Świeżewska is involved.
At the end of July, the asteroid 2019 OK zoomed past Earth. If it were to hit Warsaw, all of central Poland would be threatened. Asteroid impact would result in a crater with a diameter of several km, up to 400 m deep, says crater researcher Dr. Anna Łosiak.
People will certainly return to the Moon, but it is difficult to predict when the plans for further exploration of space will be realized. The key will be to reduce the cost of transporting materials into space, say the former head of the Polish Space Agency Grzegorz Brona and journalist Ewelina Zambrzycka.