Новости за 15.01.2016

The new satellite will study the Earth's oceans. This is the 4th mission since 1992 (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason 1, OSTM/Jason 2, Jason 3) to track changes to the global seas.

NASA is about to get up close and personal with Earth's corals: The space agency will use airplanes and water instruments to survey these delicate structures and capture the most detailed views ever of the planet's corals.

After losing a bid to SpaceX and Boeing to taxi astronauts to the International Space Station, Sierra Nevada’s miniature space shuttle Dream Chaser will have a new mission — flying cargo for NASA.

China is moving forward with plans to land a probe on the far side of the moon, state news agency Xinhua reports.

Black holes may have hair made up of zero-energy gravitons and photons, meaning they may preserve information, research suggests.

A spacewalk involving NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and British colleague Tim Peake was called off about 2 hours early today (Jan. 15) when Kopra noticed some water inside his helmet.

A full-scale mockup of a NASA space shuttle may soon travel along the waterways of the United States, embarking on a new mission of "Inspiration." The model orbiter Inspiration is transforming into an educational outreach tool and showpiece for LVX System

New observations of galaxies where no new stars are being born may give hints as to why these galaxies "died," but have also earned these galaxies the acronym "LIERs." Furthermore, some living galaxies may be "LIERs," too.

NASA has created an animation with conceptual designs of the technology that may be used to explore the Red Planet. Over a decade of exploration and multiple expeditions would be necessary to facilitate these designs.

The sci-fi epic snagged six Oscar nominations today (Jan. 14), just four days after winning Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Actor (both, somewhat puzzlingly, in the Comedy/Musical movie category).

The American Astronautical Society has given New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern the 2016 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, which recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to the field of space exploration.

The Gravity instrument, which is designed to study the extreme environments around black holes, found during its "first light" operations that a star called Theta Orionis F is actually a binary system.

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk this morning to repair one of the station's eight vital power channels.

Not what it seems, this image represents the last moments of descent as ESA's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.

Gravitational lenses are the magnifying glasses of deep space astronomy.

SpaceX and Orbital ATK will renew their contracts with NASA to bring cargo to the International Space Station, and first-time contract winner Sierra Nevada Corp. will begin flying as well, the agency announced today (Jan 14).

Two Tims team up tomorrow morning (Jan. 15) for a walk outside the International Space Station: first-time British astronaut Tim Peake and American Tim Kopra, who both arrived at the station in December.