The problem for the constantly evolving A380 wings almost solved

Engineers have almost finished work to eliminate problems in the first aircraft Airbus A380, subjected constantly evolving on the issue of the strength of wing ribs. Approximately half of the 100 Airbus A380 aircraft currently operated with a time limit for the maximum number of cycles set by the European aviation sertifikantom specific center section.

Gas giants may face one time a year, say researchers

The researchers studied the features of the collision of giant planets with each other and found that such collisions may occur in our galaxy often.

A team of scientists from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences headed by VI Dokuchaev conducted a study of indications accompanying the collision of giant planets. The researchers found that the number of collisions in our Milky Way galaxy is 0.01 to one collision per year.

Astronomers have discovered a new group of Trojan asteroids of Mars

Astronomers from the Arman Observatory, United Kingdom, led by Apostolos A. Christou reported finding a new family of Trojan asteroids of Mars.

The orbital evolution of the detected lasted about 100 million years, scientists say, and the orbits of the asteroids orbit recall now the largest of the known Trojan asteroids of Mars Eureka 5261. This group forms a cluster within a region of space, which is usually the most stable are the Trojan asteroids.

NASA reports of outbreaks are consistent with the version of a meteor

Witness of the flash of light observed in the sky beyond the Atlantic Coast of the U.S., recommend that the reason of these outbreaks was likely a single meteor; officials said the U.S. space agency. Witnesses described his heavenly fireworks, not skimping on the comparison.

"Judging from the brightness, we are dealing with something as bright as the full Moon, - said Bill Cooke of NASA's Laboratory meteoric environment on Friday. - Our stone entered the atmosphere somewhere in the north-east. "

Scientists say, dinosaurs became destroyed as a result of comet impact, not an asteroid

Space object which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, it might be a comet impact, not an asteroid, a new study indicates.

180-kilometer Chicxulub crater, located in Mexico, was established as a result of the collision, which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and about 70 percent of all species on earth, according to many scientists.

The spacecraft for the collision of an asteroid in 2022

Scientists from Europe and the U.S. to confidently move promote in their plans to make a deliberate collision of a spacecraft with a giant asteroid in 2022 to look into the depths of such visitations.

Ambitious European mission Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment, or AIDA, consisting of two satellites (one of which will be built by scientists from the U.S., and the second - the European Space Agency), is scheduled to start a three-year journey to the asteroid Didymus and his companion. Didim not dangerous for the Earth, so it is well suited for this kind of research, scientists said the mission at the 44th Annual Conference of the moon and planets, on Tuesday, March 19.

MESSENGER sees the smooth side of Mercury

During the two years of its location in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has made ​​more than 150,000 images of the planet closest to the Sun, the solar system, first giving us the opportunity to think about the extremely rough, parched surface of the planet in feature. But not all areas on Mercury look stern and sinister: it also has a smooth side, you can see on the picture, published today.

Here we see the smooth sides and bottom Mercurian irregular depressions in high definition.