Mars rover Curiosity explores lowland Yellowknife Bay

The Mars rover Curiosity, a key element of the mission Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) NASA resumed traffic January 3 and drove right up to the twisting geological formation, called Snake river ("Zmeistaya river").

Snake River is a thin curved line of dark rock, running through between flat slabs of lighter rocks and towering over the sand. Curiosity rover science team plans to study this form of relief in detail, before switching to other nearby rocks.

Maximum of solar activity in 2013 is expected to be the weakest

Maximum activity this year is likely to be the weakest in at least the last 100 years, according to NASA scientists observing the nearest star to the Earth every day.

The number of sunspots is low, despite the fact that the sun is close to the maximum of its 11-year activity cycle. Furthermore, the intensity of radio waves, usually pointing to the high solar activity, also significantly reduced.

The first direct detection sheds light on dark galaxies

Most people think of the giant galaxies as islands of stars, gas and dust that block our universe with its light. Theory, however, predicts that there are other types of galaxies, devoid of stars, and consisting mainly of dense gas. These "dark" galaxies you can not see on the black background of the universe.

Now an international team of astronomers has found a few bright galaxies, watching the glow of hydrogen these galaxies, UV-induced nearby quasar HE0109-3518.

Prepare Shock: Dangerous Mars

If ever people stay on Mars at least three years, they certainly have to survive the fall of a large meteorite hit and capacity of a megaton of TNT. 

One obvious way to assess the chances of a future encounter with a meteorite impact - to look at the past. However, this task is not so simple, because the density and size of craters, survived for a long time, depending on many factors. 

Preparing a mission to Jupiter's moon

From this year on Mars rover new American works Curiosity, in the future to join him orbiter Maven, in 2016 - the lander Insight  and in addition to that on the 2020 NASA Mars rover is scheduled for launch next. But this perspective is not limited. Among other objectives the fourth largest moon of Jupiter Europe .

The Large Hadron Collider halted until 2015

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is stopped for a long retreat for modernization - proton collisions in the accelerator will not resume in the next 20 months, after which the LHC will operate at the total energy, is almost two times higher than the present one.

"Operation completed in 2012. 

Scientists have uncovered the secret of the Bermuda Triangle

Vanishing of ships and aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean are due to methane gas that is released from the cracks of the antique plates. According to scientists gas turns into giant bubbles that reach the surface and "absorb" all that will meet them on the way.

Riddle of the Bermuda Triangle, "absorb" it gets into court, concerned mankind are more than half a century.