Mars rover Opportunity is preparing to climb the steep hill

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, whose age is almost 10 years old, well on its way south toward the place where he first have to climb a very steep hill called Solander Point, in order to continue their search for further evidence of the presence on the Red Planet conditions suitable habitat for life forms.

Space telescopes will print for the asteroids to 3-D printers

Technology 3-D printing can help them raise up the industry, coupled with the development of asteroids.

Funded multibillionaires company for mining, called Planetary Resources merged with the company 3D Systems, whose technology 3-D printing can help in the manufacture of components of a series of future spacecraft Arkyd, the company announced on Wednesday, June 26.

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.

As amateur astronomers can help lunar mission LADEE

Mission Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) scheduled for launch into space from Wallops Island on September 5 this year. LADEE will be the first mission, sent from the Wallops Island, which will go beyond low-Earth orbit. As a joint project of the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Ames Research Center, LADEE will learn from orbit conditions that exist on the Moon, including its tenuous exosphere.

Hubble sees galaxies colliding in outer space

Space Telescope NASA / European Space Agency "Hubble" recently made ​​this beautiful picture a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies approach each other so closely that they begin to interact with each other, they both appear spectacular changes. In some cases, two galaxies can come together, and in the other - on the contrary, to be ripped.

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. 

Our galaxy has greater than before its diameter is ten times

The astronomers, led by John Stoke by the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), reported that the new observations spectrograph Space Telescope "Hubble" forced them to rethink the size of the halo of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way. So - and significantly change our estimates of their mass.

This entire glowing disc, which we used to call the Milky Way, represents only the tip of the iceberg, nine-tenths of which are lost in the darkness.