Russia is scheduling an active exploration of space by 2020

Roskosmos is ready to continue working in the "Phobos-Grunt", as the significance of the project is not yet lost, said Vladimir Popovkin. New satellite sent to Mars with all the mistakes when you first start. New project planned for 2016-2020.

Recall that the first start of the station "Phobos-Grunt" was launched on November 9, 2011, but due to problems in the propulsion system, the station remained in Earth orbit. 

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 red giant, to learn the fate of our Sun

In space, astronomers found a red giant, around which formed a three-dimensional spiral out of gas. R Sculptors dying star is 1.5 thousand light-years from Earth. Red giant looked through the telescope ALMA in Chile.

Red giants are the latest stage in the evolution of stars. At this stage the star expand and add to its mass, then the mass of stars scattered into space by stellar winds, spreading the substance of the universe, which is necessary for the formation of new stars. After 10-50 thousand years in the red giant burns helium, which is why there is a powerful release of gas that lasts for hundreds of years?