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During his stay on the International Space Station, the German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took thousands of beautiful photographs of the Earth from his privileged position. Now this video combines more than 12,000 of these shots to create an absolutely mesmerizing timelapse.

2014 will be remembered as the year of the "Rosetta mission." His arrival at comet 67 / P Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been designated by the most prestigious scientific journals in the world such as Science or Nature as the most outstanding scientific advance of 2014.

A team of scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center has devised a novel exploration program aimed at sending manned missions to Venus, the closest planet to Earth.

What effect would the passage of a wandering star have in the vicinity of the Solar System? A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heilderberg (Germany) has calculated the possible consequences for Earth. The study has been published on arXiv.org, an online repository of Cornell University (USA) for pre-publications of scientific articles in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science or quantitative biology.

For the first time in history, a team from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has confirmed that there are unequivocally organic compounds in the soil of the planet Mars. This discovery and all its details will be published in January 2015 in the Journal of Geophysical Researh.

The microblogging platform Twitter has just published the report “2014. The year on Twitter ”, where we can check which topics have been the most popular among Internet users throughout 2014 and, therefore, those that generated the most retweets.

A team of researchers coordinated by geologist and anatomical scientist Andrew Farke has identified the first species of dinosaur

Are there parallels between the acquisition of language in humans and the ability to communicate through song in birds? According to one study, such similarities exist even at the genetic level.