Curiosity digs on Mars glittering particles

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity finds few bright element in the samples, dig up his bucket from the surface of the red planet, scientists say.

Curiosity had recently dumped back taken them a sample of Martian soil, as mission scientists have noticed an unusual pattern in bright fragment, and they feared that they could be a fragment of the space vehicle or ATV. However, the particles, as it turned out, were a Martian origin.

A twin of Earth in the Alpha Centauri system

In the nearest star to the Sun is equal to the Earth planet exposed:

From the European Southern Observatory exposed in the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri Earth mass exoplanet. New planet called Alpha Centauri Bb.

For the first time in the system of four suns discovered exoplanet Alexander Berezin How quickly time: remember, not so long ago, we still read the work seriously deny the possibility of the existence of planets around normal binary stars, because of their instability, caused by the large amount of light.

Earth took its water from the moon

Moon could give all their water, "germ" of the Earth, scientists believe

New studies are missing puzzle to place the theory of formation of the moon as a result of the collision of Earth with a space object - a theory which has long been considered the primary version of the origin of the natural satellite of our planet. Both new research explain why the moon and the Earth have identical chemical composition, but the collision model described in these studies differ greatly, according astronews.ru.