It is almost twice the size and fifteen times the mass of the Earth. It orbits its star in just 35 hours in a very tight orbit, causing its surface temperature to exceed one thousand degrees Celsius. The planet was discovered by the astronomers from Toruń, the Nicolaus Copernicus University reports.

The preliminary list of experiments to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) includes 18 proposals submitted by Polish universities, institutions and companies. This is an opportunity for unique research in microgravity conditions, although there is no guarantee that all of them will be carried out as part of the Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański mission in 2024.

'We hope that in November this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) will officially decide on the mission of Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański, who could fly into space as early as August 2024,’ Waldemar Buda, Minister of Development and Technology, said in Łódź.

The NASA heliospheric mission Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has passed the system integration review for all 10 instruments of the satellite, including the GLOWS instrument built by the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

ARIEL, the next-gen mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), has successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review. The launch of the mission, which aims to observe the chemical composition of distant extrasolar planets, is scheduled for 2029. The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences is preparing one of the key instruments of the telescope.

‘We will present the candidacy of Sławosz Uznański for participation in a space mission in Earth orbit,’ Waldemar Buda, the Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda announced on social media.

A Polish astronaut will take part in a mission on the International Space Station (ISS), where he will test advanced technologies of Polish companies and carry out experiments.

Green, high-performance, hypergolic (capable of self-ignition when mixed) propellants have been the Holy Grail of space propulsion for decades. In recent months, engineers and scientists from Łukasiewicz - Institute of Aviation have successfully completed a number of tests leading to solving this challenge, the representatives of the institute report.

An international team of astronomers in Nature has announced the discovery of an unusual white dwarf star that is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. Dr Przemysław Mróz from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw is a co-author of the study.