Group of astronomers, having analyzed the data from SMART-1 and Clementine sondes could find out much about the geological and volcanic past of the Moon, informs European Space Agency (ESA).
Experts informed that, for example, the pool known under the name the Sea of humidity, most likely, was formed due to blow of a heavenly body […]

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Astronomers have found out in space the huge free space which is not containing neither usual, nor a dark matter. In the sizes “hole” considerably surpasses all similar “objects” opened earlier, informs the National radio-astronomical observatory.
In space which extends up to ten billions trillions kilometers, there are neither galaxies, nor stars, or “black holes”, or […]

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Professor Joop Houtkoper from Hessen university have studied the data from space probe Viking and came to a conclusion, that Mars can be inhabited with microbes, whose cells are filled with a mix of water and hydrogen peroxide, informs Drudge Report.
Some scientists are skeptical concerning these conclusions, marks Space.com. Besides Houtkoper’s work is not published […]

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Roskosmos’ (Russian space) press-service informs that at the end of this August they will conduct public hearings on estimation materials concerning the influence of space systems and complexes, which operation is supposed on Baikonur, on the environment.
Experts who are engaged in studying of various factors of influence of space technical equipment on the environment, […]

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NASA experts, using the data received by telescope Spitser have discovered the process of planets formation in system HD98800 and for the first time four stars participate at once.
Such unusual process considerably surpasses a history of Solar System in which only one star influenced on a protoplanetary gas-dust disk.
NASA experts inform that HD98800 system is […]

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Cost of the travel onboard the Russian spaceship “Soyuz� to International Space Station (ISS) will increase from the current $25 millions up to $40 millions in 2009. Such information was announced by Eric Anderson, the president of Space Adventures.
He has also added, that the main reason of a price rise for the space tourism is […]

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Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created modern space-suit called BioSuit which is able to provide to astronauts mobility during their space expeditions.
Idea to create a new suit for cosmonauts belongs to the professor of aeronautics Dava Newman who considers, that old suits are excessively bulky and do not provide sufficient mobility of astronauts […]

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Japanese astronomers have managed for the first time in the world to discover black holes of unknown before shape.
Researchers have fixed in the center of two galaxies black holes, which remind spheres, instead of torus (the geometrical figure similar to a bagel), as were earlier.
For the researches the Japanese scientists have chosen two galaxies which […]

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NASA experts till now cannot find the reason of air leak from a crew compartment in shuttle Indeavour, which is to be launched on August, 7 of the current year.
As it was informed earlier, air leak was revealed during tests carried out at the end of the last week.
In the beginning experts have assumed […]

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Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik in German Nuremberg has successfully finished tests of the tractor which is intended for the rise on a high-mountainous plateau in Chile large-tonnage aerials of radio-telescope ALMA.
ALMA is abbreviation from English Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
Till now there was not so powerful observatory in a southern hemisphere. Scientists assume, that the new powerful telescope […]

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