From the cosmodrome "East" was carried out the third launch
From the Baikonur cosmodrome was launched rocket "Soyuz-2.1 a" with eleven companions. Among them, two instruments for remote Earth sounding "kanopus-V" № 3 and 4, as well as nine foreign vehicles. This launch was the third in a r...
What you see falling into a black hole?
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the Universe. They are so dense that gravitational force does not allow anything, even light, leaving the black hole. Physicists have discovered many black holes, from small t...
Proposed a new recipe for the search of alien life
For most kinds of life in the Universe oxygen can be a deadly poison. But, oddly enough, it may significantly simplify the search of such a life for astrobiologists. Imagine you get in your time machine that can travel for billion...
The launch of the Falcon Heavy is scheduled for 6 February
the Head of the company SpaceX Elon Musk said via his account in Twitter that the first launch of new rocket super-heavy class Falcon Heavy will take place on 6 February. The announcement came three days after a successful static ...
The U.S. government wants to force NASA to stop supporting the ISS by 2025
the administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is going to sign a decree on the termination of the support program of the International space station by 2025. About it reports the portal the Verge, familiar ...
Scientists explained the strange shape of the "alien" asteroid Moimoi
last year, the offender interstellar space Moimoi passed through the inner Solar system. Initially it was assumed that a comet, then an asteroid, and then the alien ship — this visitor had properties that are unusual for typical s...