Is sending humans to Mars actually feasible?

"The challenge ahead is epic, but historic," says Buzz Aldrin. "We are on a pathway to homestead the Red Planet."

Why go to Mars?

The idea of a manned journey to Mars has animated science fiction for more than a century, and since the dawn of the space age, 

Rocket Engine Part Recovered by Amazon CEO Has Apollo 11 History

Forty-four years (and three days) after it helped launch the first men to walk on the moon, a huge rocket engine part salvaged from the ocean floor has been positively identified as a historic component of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

"I'm thrilled to share some exciting news," Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos wrote Friday (July 19) on his Bezos Expeditions website.

Snow on a very early our solar system

For the first time obtained an image of a line in a remote snow extremely young planetary system. The snow line, located in the disk surrounding the solar-type star TW Hydrae, promises to reveal more about the formation of planets and comets, the factors that influence their composition and history of our Solar System. The results are published today in the journal Science Express.

Hubble Shows Link between Stars' Ages and Their Orbits in Dense Cluster

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time two distinct linked Populations of stars in an ancient globular star cluster to their uniqueness orbital dynamics, offering Proof that the stars do not share the same birth date.

Hubble telescope has found the impossible planet

Scientists are puzzled by the new discovery that could make using the space telescope Hubble. They found outside our solar system planet, the conditions of origin of which modern science can not yet explain. The report is published on the website of the Institute Space Telescope. Cosmic body surprising origin was discovered during monitoring situated at a distance of 176 light-years from Earth, the star TW Hydra. Heavenly body, which exoplanet, is removed from the star is 12 billion kilometers, reports the publication .

Suspended a spacewalk after finding fluid in the spacesuit

"The decision to suspend the walk, as European astronaut Luca appeared Parmitano water in diving," said Solovyov told Interfax.

The "fluid leakage" occurred when Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy performing repair and maintenance tasks outside the orbital outpost.

"After that the U.S. took the decision on the urgent return of the astronauts aboard the ISS," said Anna Vedisheva, spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Solving a mystery than 3,500 million years

Scientists cannot know for sure if there is life in space outside the Earth, but new research by a team of scientists led by an astrobiologist at the University of South Florida (USF) shows that one of the key elements that produced life on Earth was brought to Earth by meteorites.

In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences,