Новости за 11.02.2016

Get the full Mark Watney experience and immerse yourself in a "virtual reality" Mars landscape courtesy of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

Gravitational waves are the "smoking gun" of the Big Bang. Predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916, a massive object like Earth distorts space-time around it like a bowling ball dropped on a trampoline.

A powerful greenhouse effect can destroy a planet's chances of hosting life, a new study suggests.

Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity predicted that large dynamic events – like two black holes colliding and combining – should produce waves rippling outward, distorting the fabric of spacetime.

Albert Einstein determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.

On Sept. 14th, 2015, physicists directly observed gravitational waves created by the merger of 2 black holes. Northwestern University’s Vicky Kalogera and Shane Larson explain the find.

In one of the biggest discoveries in the history of space science, researchers have directly detected gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein. The detection should open a new era of astronomical observations.

Sixteen telescopes on Earth and in space have the collective resolving power of an instrument eight times the diameter of Earth. The collaboration recently captured the "most detailed astronomical image" ever taken, said the NRAO.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ASTRO-H spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop an H-IIA rocket Friday (Feb. 12) at 3:45 a.m. EST (0845 GMT) from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan. You can watch it live here at Space.com.

The Dragon spacecraft first reached the International Space Station in 2012.

Look at spacetime as a colorful sheet dented by mass and you can ‘see’ gravity. As two black holes dance closer together, they propel a signature ripple of spacetime distortion out across the sky.

To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time ever, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton. Here's how they did it.

Speaking of the recent discoveries of gravitational waves and detection of he Higgs boson, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok calls this a "new golden age for physics."

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged one of the most massive black holes yet discovered anchors this elliptical galaxy, numbered NGC 4889. The giant elliptical galaxy is about 300 million light-years from Earth.

Researchers affiliated with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) are holding a news conference today (Feb. 11) at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. You can watch it live on Space.com.

Astrophysicist, author and presenter Neil deGrasse Tyson “ties a bow” on the Laser Interferometer detection of space-time distortions from colliding black holes.