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Russia `planning` to colonize moon by 2030

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 11:53

Russia is planning to put a manned colony on the moon as soon as 2030, and is racing to dispatch the first robotic rovers to explore the lunar surface two years from now.

First `sibling` of Sun discovered

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 10:14

Researchers have identified the first "sibling" of the Sun - a star that was almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star.

Sun emits M5.2-class solar flare

Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2014, 09:29

Sun emitted a M5.2-class flare that peaked at 6:07 a.m. EDT on May 8, 2014.

Soviet-era space capsule fetches 1 mn euros at auction

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 19:38

A Soviet-era space capsule that was used for a series of key test flights into space in the 1970s fetched a million euros at an auction.

44 Indians, including 17 women, shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 18:47

Forty-four Indians, including 17 women, are among 705 aspirants shortlisted for an ambitious private mission to send four people on a planned one-way trip to Mars in 2024 to colonize the red planet.

How black holes are formed

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:59

A partnership of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Ikerbasque and the CSIC-Spanish National Research Council is participating in the detecting, for the first time, of circular light coming from a recently created black hole.

First realistic virtual universe created

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:50

Astronomers have successfully created the first realistic virtual universe using a computer simulation called "Illustris," which can recreate 13 billion years of cosmic evolution in a cube 350 million light-years on a side with unprecedented resolution.

NASA simulator recreates planet-forming space dust

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:46

Researchers at NASA`s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., has successfully reproduced the processes that occur in the atmosphere of a red giant star and lead to the formation of planet-forming interstellar dust.

Chandra observatory gives new insight into star cluster formation

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:43

Researchers have used data from NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, to make an important advance in understanding how clusters of stars are formed.

Computer simulation supports `holographic` theory describing a black hole

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:38

A research group composed of four researchers has tested numerically a "holographic" theory, which was conjectured to describe accurately the dynamical phenomena occurring in a black hole.