Water ice ocean on Enceladus may be salty. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the analysis of data collected by the probe "Cassini". The work of researchers appeared in the journal Nature, and short ...
Second European cargo spacecraft ATV-2 "Johannes Kepler" on Wednesday night, June 22, was sunk in the non-navigational area of the South Pacific, according to the European Space Agency. Communication with the ship broke in 00:41 Moscow ...
Tuesday, June 21, went to the ISS a new cargo spacecraft "Progress M-11M." It is reported by RIA Novosti. Launch vehicle "Soyuz-U" was launched from Baikonur at 18:38 Moscow time. At 18:47 "Progress M-11M" went into ...
A group of Russian scientists from the Institute of General Physics, Prokhorov has found self-organizing structure of the bubbles that occur in chemical processes. Article physicists are now being prepared for publication in Physical Review Letters, ...
Astrophysicists discovered the first distant from its star rocky planets by gravitational microlensing. Preprint of the paper is available at arXiv.org. The method of gravitational microlensing (as well as lensing method) is the distortion of the ...
Large Hadron Collider has fulfilled the plan for 2011 ahead of schedule - integrated luminosity for the two detectors the LHC (CMS and ATLAS) exceeded one back femtobarn. This was reported in the press release CERN ...
The space probe "Messenger" has collected a lot of new information about the first planet in the solar system - Mercury. Briefly obtained data are given by specialists in a press release NASA. Using the collected ...
Spitzer Telescope photographed the nebula RCW 120, which is in the infrared range has the outlines of the ring. It is reported by BBC News. The nebula is located near the tip of the tail Scorpio ...
Astronomers working with X-ray telescope Chandra, discovered a population of young black holes, whose existence is not predicted by current theories of the universe. Article scientists appeared in Nature. Summarizes the results of work are provided ...
French satellite Corot found ten new planets outside our solar system. About the new discoveries during the second symposium on the work of the satellite, told the experts involved in the project. Brief results leads portal ...