Image source   A team of scientists trying to test candidates Kepler announced today that they have identified eight new potentially habitable planets, including some close to Earth in size and situation. One of them is the "closest analogue of the Earth found to date," he says, Unpoetically

  Image source   NASA engineers believe that lightweight, inflatable heat shield can be used to slow the aircraft when landing on the Martian atmosphere, which is much thinner than Earth's. New technologies are needed to get astronauts to Mars because manned spacecraft would have to be much larger

  Image source "Coffin" was found Will Farrar on images obtained with the help of Curiosity Rover. Scientists said seeing such objects may be the case Pareidolia, psychological reaction to seeing familiar objects in random places. It describes the reaction of the brain to see the faces and other

  Image source   Most Earth-like planets may be a comfortable home for alien life. The planet, named Kepler 438b, slightly larger than Earth and orbits the orange dwarf which gives it 40% more heat than the sun to Earth. Kepler 438b makes a complete revolution around its star every 35 days, making

  Image source   Astronomers have approached one step closer to solving the mystery of a strange object orbiting a massive black hole in the Milky Way. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have sparked a new debate, offering more evidence to support the theory of a gas cloud. "We investigated the