A Canadian company wants to build a 20-kilometer-long elevator to space

In 2015, an exclusive patent for the creation of an elevator to space received a Canadian company Thoth Technology Inc.. The tower ThothX Tower will be 20 kilometers - is almost 25 times higher than the tallest building in the world, the skyscraper "Burj Khalifa" in the United Arab Emirates. The upper area of the tower will host the start and refueling of spacecraft; they would not require energy-intensive run vertically, which will save up to 30% of the fuel.

SpaceX ship will return to Earth the results of experiments on the ISS

The spacecraft SpaceX Dragon US company made a successful soft landing on Earth, splashed down off the coast of southern California near San Diego.

For five hours earlier unmanned transport craft undocked from the International Space Station and began to decline.

Migration of Mars will require radical changes in the body and mind of astronauts

In 2016, two astronauts completed the International Space Station mission duration of one year. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (Scott Kelly) and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko during the stay at the station were under the close supervision of doctors who monitored the smallest changes of the physical 

NASA shows the first real photos of the new system with the Trappist-1

Since two weeks ago an international group of scientists announced the discovery of a solar system with seven planets like Earth, we had seen only artistic recreations and even promotional posters of imaginary tourist trips to those new worlds. Now NASA shows us a real and moving images of the star of this system, Trappist-1, thanks to its Kepler space telescope.

SpaceX will bring two people to the moon in 2018

The company SpaceX announced on February 27 that it will take two private individuals on a trip around the Moon in late 2018. Those two people have made a major payment for a lunar mission. As the Apollo astronauts did, these tourists will travel to space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humanity, driven by the human spirit of exploration, SpaceX said in a statement.

"Space": running on the waves of gravity

A hundred years ago, an inquisitive mind of a genius, Albert Einstein assumed that the universe is filled with gravitational waves, and even described their properties. To this day, scientists continue to look for them. The "Space" invites viewers to witness these searches in Hanover, Germany.

Thus, all objects of the universe - colliding black holes, collapsing stars, planets - create ripples in the fabric of space-time, slightly distorting, deforming it. This "ripple" is the gravitational waves. 

What happens to a person without a Spacesuit in Space

Imagine you were thrown out of the space station airlock without a spacesuit. You can panic and desperately trying to escape. How much time do you have to find the source of air and atmospheric pressure needed? Spoiler: very little. But more than you think.

Russia be determined to stake a claim for themselves the best spots on the moon

Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), together with the Russian Academy of Sciences has developed a package of proposals for the lunar program Russia. The aim of the new program is operational consolidation in the prospective area of the Earth's satellite - the south pole of the moon.

Sputnik: A 57 years since the launch of the Space Age

Before humanity received with shock the news of the launch of the first artifact into space in 1957, had not been more than 12 years of having completed the Second World War. The war military conflict that caused severe disruption in political relations and social configuration of the world.

Although the fighting ceased on the ground after the victory of the Allies over the Axis in 1945, 

Live Stream Output Russian cosmonauts into space

On Friday, August 16 and Thursday August 22, NASA TV will broadcast live spacewalk outside the International Space Station, two Russian cosmonauts. Two Russian cosmonaut flight engineers - Fedor and Alexander Jurchihin Misurkin, leave the airlock, "Pierce" at about 10:40 in the morning and come out into open space, 

Ammonium ion detected in space

The space between the stars, which is called the interstellar medium is not empty. Although the density of matter is very low (about 10,000 particles per cm3), there is a rich variety of atoms and molecules that populate it. The most abundant material, as in the rest of the universe is hydrogen (in three variants: ionized, atomic and molecular) and helium. But there are also molecules of all kinds, to over a hundred have come to find. Since the most abundant and simple, water (H2O), to large, complex organic chains as acetone or benzene.

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.

Pluto's atmosphere was more than predictable

The new model, created by a group of scientists led by Justin Erwin, lead author of the study and a PhD from the University of Virginia, predicts that Pluto's atmosphere may reach nearly 10,390 miles into space, which is about 4.5 diameter of Pluto. This is more than half the distance from Pluto to Charon.

Probe Voyager-1 crossed the solar system

On the eve of NASA representative’s statement that the spacecraft had afford evidence that the Voyager-1 is crossed the solar system. The intersection of the probe Voyager-1 edge of the solar system was the world and a new level of realization in the study of outer space.

The database project in space

NASA is going to throw astronauts to the libration point of the Earth-Moon system, thus developing the idea of going beyond low-Earth orbit, already moderately alive in the spacecraft "Orion".

NASA scientists want, based on the experience of international cooperation in the ISS project, to place equipment and astronauts to the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Moon system.

Disclosed images of space photography contest

The winner in 2011 showed the phenomenon of Whirlpool Galaxy, and this year, the focus is on the phenomenon of Venus and the transition between the Earth and the Sun.

The fourth version of the Astronomy Photographer competition, sponsored by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, and Night Sky magazine, chose the best images of the universe, which took place in the last contest of 2011 and can be seen from today and until February 5, 2013, at the headquarters of the observatory, in London.

The Hubble European file is already in Spain

Earth from Space Click here From now on, the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) will host the scientific facts of Hubble . Thus, the European Archive Space Telescope will be integrated with databases of other missions of the ESA (European Space Agency), which will be available to researchers worldwide. Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope orbit around the Earth and has made ​​some of the greatest astronomical discoveries of our time.

Chinese astronauts from space speak with President Hu Jintao

Beijing. - Chinese President Hu Jintao, accompanied by other leaders of the communist regime, today visited the Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, where he could communicate with the three astronauts country currently orbiting Earth aboard the module "Tiangong I "point of departure for China's future space station. According to news agency Xinhua, Hu, Vice President Xi Jinping, Vice Premier Li Keqiang and

The first Frenchman in space

In 1982, Jean Loup Chretien became the first French astronaut to travel into space to orbit the Earth to the Soviet space station Salyut 7. Salyut, which means "hello" would be the predecessor of the space station Mir famous, which would mark a record stay in space.

Chretien was not only the first French astronaut, but the first foreigner to participate in the program space of the Soviet Union.Currently Chretien retired engineer, working on new technologies and has brought rave reviews supporting the creation of the Mexican Space Agency, AEXA, joining such an initiative.

China make its first manual dock space

Three Chinese astronauts in a space capsule on Sunday dramatic the first manual docking home with another spacecraft, a new step in China's efforts to achieve the accomplishments of the United States and Russia in space.

The coupling between 9 and Shenzhou orbital module Tiangong 1 was broadcast live on national television. Both ships had been fitted on 18 June, but the maneuver was carried out by remote control from a base in China.