Top 7 striking facts about time

1. Once a year on Earth lasted 486 days, it was about 800 million years ago, before the birth of ancient life in the era of large-scale glaciation of the Earth. Hundreds of millions of years later, in the era of the dinosaurs, the year was reduced to 370 days. He is now, as you know, is 365 days. What is happening? The facts that the Earth rotates more slowly, because it "slows down" lunar gravity.

If water leaves from the Planet- will like the Earth to Mars

The two closest to the Earth planet - Mars and Venus - once had vast oceans, extending over many millions of square kilometers. But all the planets with liquid water on the surface is very fragile. Venus could not keep their oceans, and they vanished into space. Recently we learned that Mars lost most of their water, then it turned into a dry and cold desert.

Parade of the three planets

During these three days, in the clear sky you can see the "parade of three planets" that are low in the north-eastern part of the sky.

Three bright planets are placed diagonally across the sky at this weekend's pre-dawn sky which is right at the top of Jupiter, in the middle of Mars and Mercury at the bottom left. In addition, the company they will be waning moon.

NASA probes TWINS: five years of observations of ring current Earth

Land surrounds the dynamic area, which accept the name of the magnetosphere. This area is controlled by the magnetic and electric forces coming from the sun energy and matter, as well as a variety of waves and processes that differ from those that are commonly found in terrestrial physics. Within this constantly changing magnetic "bubble" is toroidal formation of charged particles, the plane of which coincides with the plane of Earth's equator. 

Three Chinese Astronauts Land After Record-Breaking Spaceflight

A Chinese space capsule carrying three astronauts returned safely to Earth Tuesday (June 25), wrapping up the longest manned space mission in the nation's history.

The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft touched down at 8:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0008 GMT), capping a 15-day mission to China's orbitingTiangong 1 lab module. The spacecraft landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where the local time was 8:08 a.m. on Wednesday.

How much water is on Earth?

How much water do you think there are on Earth? Approximately 70% of the surface of the Earth is covered by water, and oceans contain about 96.5% of all water from the planet. But there is water in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, ice caps and glaciers, as moisture in the soil and groundwater, even in your body and your dog. However, all that water is in the "small" area of ​​1,385 km in diameter.

The Earth will not end in 2012

On December 31, the Gregorian calendar did something frightening. He spent the years 2011 to 2012. What we experience as the year came to an end? Earthquakes? Globally? A planetary collision? Stranger gravitational effects caused by an alignment with the galactic plane? Is the impact of a comet? 'Lighting' Earth?

As much as I wish it were true finally, it is likely that the New Year celebrations only involve a lot of alcohol and fireworks. It is the beginning of a new year for our calendar. Nothing more, nothing less.

Mars and Earth were shaped from the same structure blocks

A team of Carnegie investigated hydrogen liquefy in water from the Martian subsurface, and found that Mars was formed from the same structure blocks as the Earth, and the changes in the chemical composition of the planet began to occur in the course of its subsequent evolution. This indicates that the terrestrial planets, including Earth, the same source of water - chondritic meteorites. However, unlike our planet, Mars rocks, which contain volatile components such as water, can be processed deep in the bowels of the planet.

A new "border" of the galaxy

Thanks to the telescope "Hubble" discovered galaxy, at a distance of 13.3 billion light years from Earth.

Scientists working with the space telescope "Hubble" and "Spitzer" discovered galaxy, which would be a record for the distance from the Earth.

Unusual lunar crater will help to understand the evolution of craters on Earth

Researchers studying the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies discovered an interesting object for research on the moon.

Scientists engaged in the crater of lunar   who is in the region known as the lunar Sea of Tranquility. The crater is only 2.2 kilometers in diameter, but it is very young - formed only 10 million years ago - and well-preserved.

The Moon is moving back from Earth nearly 4 centimeters per year

The distance of the Moon and the Earth's revolving slowdown is reason by the gravitational pull of the two stars from the formation of the system.

The Moon and the Sun appear eternal. And while this is true for permanence small sample of time is human life on galactic time, is only apparent, because the Moon will end when we emerge from the star, the Sun, end their lives. 

Giant satellite tracking station ESA ready for opening

One of the most complex in the world stations for satellite tracking, preparing for his discovery in Malargue, Argentina, 1,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires. The new station will afford dependable communications with missions traveling through the solar system in the hundreds of millions of miles from Earth.

The new station of the European Space Agency (ESA), located near the town of Malargue, Mendoza province, after its opening, will join the work of the existing stations located in Spain and Australia.

The history of life on Earth in a minute

Our Story in 1 Minute that compiles various documentaries and shows us the origin of life on our planet in just over a minute, nothing more nothing less. Includes the formation of our planet and the bombing primitive, and ends with the space conquest.

GTC to unravel the mystery of the atmosphere of one of the 'super-Earths'

The 'super-Earths', with a mass 10 times greater than Earth's, are good candidates to find life outside our solar system.

Located 42 light years away, GJ 1214b is one of the most studied because it can be seen from ground-based telescopes with relative ease

The data obtained with the GTC by IAC researchers support the idea that GJ1214b's atmosphere is made up of metal.

Earth's magnetic poles change places faster than thought

Earth's magnetic field is increased incredibly quickly, since modern humans arrived in Europe for the first time, completely reversing its poles in less than a thousand years, a new study indicates.

Researchers observe volcanoes of Io from Earth

Using a amalgamation of surveys conducted by ground-based telescopes, and the data from the archives, the research team has collected about 40 pictures of volcanic explosion that took place at the geologically active throughout our solar system object - Jupiter's moon Io.

Expedition 33/34 went to the ISS

Two cosmonauts and one astronaut and 32 live fish left Earth and went to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday afternoon (October 23), starting with the Russian launch site, not be used to start manned missions for nearly three decades.

Spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-06M", located on the carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG", was launched on 31 th launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:51 in Moscow (10:51 GMT). 

Two asteroid Apophis, threaten Earth

Two other large asteroids in orbits that may have to change to avoid a collision signify a threat to Earth. To avoid the risk, need inoculation capacity of about 70 tons, which will display the trajectory of the asteroid interrupt spacecraft that can change its trajectory.

Besides Apophis threats to Earth are two more large asteroids in orbits that may have to change to avoid a collision, the president said the Rocket and Space Corporation "Energia" Vitaly Lopota.

Moon was once part of the Earth!

Scientists have make available new indication that the moon was once part of our planet, but billions of years ago, "broke away" from it in a collision with another celestial body.

Now that planetary scientists to understand where there is water on the natural satellite of our planet, all the scholarly attention has focused on the more fundamental question: how, after all, come from the moon itself? And how is it that she seemed bound rotated in space in tune with the Earth?

Scientists have found closest to Earth exoplanet

Twin of Earth lived in the neighborhood - a distance of four light-years:

Astronomers have discovered the nearest star system Alpha Centauri Earth exoplanet sufficient. Description of findings published in the journal Nature, a summary of its results in Nature News.