India will send its own mission to Mars

In recent years, the process of space exploration is not only high-status, but also and more very important. And it's not that mankind is beginning to handle in quantity boundary rules, under which the world still needed for the settlement, but because that now many of the developed countries are aiming for the development of other planets that they would start mining. To that end, in November 2013, India is going to launch on the orbits of Mars his first exploratory space probe.

Uranus observed unusual weather

Here is what happens: a thick, disordered atmosphere, where winds with speed reaching 900 kilometers per hour, a giant storm that would destroy the entire continent here, on Earth, and temperatures as high as -220 degrees Celsius. Sounds like a description of some icy hell, but in reality it is a picture of what is happening on the planet Uranus, unfolding before us on the new high-resolution images taken in the infrared range, which were obtained Keck Observatory, Hawaii.

Orionids meteor shower will climax this weekend

Soon the Earth will pass through a flow of debris that is left behind Halley's Comet, and you can watch a fantastic show of heaven known as the Orionids meteor shower. This is usually a very reliable meteor shower should peak at the upcoming weekend, October 20-21, 2012, and had at this time to give up to 25 meteors per hour, according to the McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin.

The unusual origin of Saturn's moons

Saturn's icy moons medium size were twisted when several much larger satellites crash, forming a giant moon Titan, states a new study conducted by a team of scientists led by Eric Asfogom University of California, Santa Cruz.

Initially, in the Saturn system there exists a family of relatively large satellites known as the "Galilean satellites" (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io), according to a new theory. But everything changed after a series of rather large collision between satellites, which are formed by Titan and was thrown into a huge amount of space matter that formed satellites such as Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus, the researchers say.

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.