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Scientists from NASA want to restore the magnetic field of Mars and make the planet habitable
Scientists from space Agency NASA proposed an ambitious but at the same time very bold plan, according to which Mars can be returned to its atmosphere and make the Red planet habitable for future generations of colonists from Eart...
10 reasons to rejoice in the discovery of planets in the system TRAPPIST-1
last week, the world literally applauded: near star TRAPPIST-1 with a bunch of extra nice features. It would seem that seven solid planets, no word yet about life, aliens, or other surprises, and noise was all over the world. What...
Mars could be three satellites?
Two moons, two moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos are small, irregular, but are spinning in the same Equatorial plane as the Red planet. For a long time they were considered captured asteroids, but their orbits greatly reduce the c...
Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to open on the moon?
In September 2016, the Executive Director of the company SpaceX Elon Musk has announced his ambitious plans for the conquest and colonization of Mars. Earlier this week, he once again surprised the public with news that SpaceX is ...
NASA spacecraft almost collided with one of the moons of Mars
All of us from time to time "fills", but when you're a huge piece of metal traveling through space, the effects of "drift" can be somewhat more pitiable than usual. This week in space NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN ...
Chinese carrier rocket of new generation "Changzheng-7 Y2" tested
In Hainan province located in southern China, conducted a technical inspection of the «Changzheng-7 Y2», of the carrier rocket of new generation. With it in April of 2017 plan to bring into space cargo ship «Tanjo-1...
Even money won't save lunar tourists SpaceX, if something goes wrong
on Monday, the founder of the private aerospace company SpaceX Elon Musk announced plans for the first ever commercial space mission, sending two civilians to the moon on Board of the spacecraft "Dragon 2". Apparently, suggesting ...
What you need to know about the plan Elon musk to send humans to the moon
February 27, Elon Musk, on behalf of his company SpaceX to send two "ordinary citizens" in the loop around the moon. Here we have collected all the information about this future event, which became known at the moment. Who? While...
NASA still wants to get solar energy directly from space
last year, the experts concluded that world energy consumption will increase by almost 50% from 2012 to 2040. For several years, scientists from NASA and the Pentagon's dream to produce energy from the sun, bypassing all the drawb...
SpaceX will send humans to the moon in 2018
SpaceX is planning to send two people on a trip around the moon next year. Late yesterday the company's CEO Elon Musk spoke about the mission, which will involve two long-awaited technology company: the crew capsule and Crew Drago...
Engineer patented "hyperloop" for space launch vehicles
Its new development, called «SpaceTram», the engineer, James Powell has developed recently and introduced it to the public recently. The principle is simple: on the Earth's surface is built a large vacuum tube pointing u...
6 the largest of the meteorites found on Earth
Falling to the Earth space objects of a natural origin most often burn up in the atmosphere. For this we must thank our dense atmosphere. But she sometimes there are interruptions in the work. Especially when we are talking about ...
Complex light metal mystery: where in space is so much lithium?
nowadays the Li are everywhere. Back in the mid-19th century, this soft, silver-white metal was the cure. Doctors treated his psychiatric disorder like mania. Even today, this metal is used as medication for bipolar disorder. But ...
We know that the Earth is not flat, for hundreds of years. There are many ways to demonstrate this, starting with the masts of ships disappearing over the horizon, the ability to see farther, climbing higher, and ending with the l...
a New study suggests that the greatest danger in case of falling of an asteroid to Earth will be to present not the fact of his collision with the surface. The greatest danger for all of us to imagine the shockwaves that the aster...
Roll the lip "habitable super-earths" does not exist
for a Long time we thought our Solar system was the standard for the planets which we can find in the Universe. The inner, solid worlds, prevailing in the hottest part of the Solar system with big gaseous planets are rotating much...
Computer models show that the dust from the moons of Mars begins to form his ring
In our Solar system there are four planets with rings. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In the future this list may be added another planet. It may one day become Mars. One of its moons, Phobos, will collapse sooner or later, ...
Why can't astronauts drink in space?
Wine on the moon... Whisky on the space station... Reading as a child is not most children's books about space pirates, Rangers and other daredevils, I didn't think that drinking in space is not allowed. And really, space travel i...
"A storehouse of planets": the results of the emergency press conference NASA
NASA is not often assemble an "emergency" conference to tell the world about the really important things. Tonight was presented one of those "really important things". Why this is important, as it was a little of everything — see ...
Discovered just 7 potentially habitable earth-like planets within a single system
Less than a year ago, astronomers announced a surprising discovery. They found three earth-like planets orbiting small, dim red dwarf. However, as it turned out, the first discovery scientists have "missed" a few available in this...