Новости за 19.02.2016

While the golden age of exoplanets has barely begun, an exciting additional chapter is also taking shape: the hunt for exomoons.

Cygnus is ready to take the plunge: This morning, at 7:35 a.m. EST (1225 GMT), the International Space Station's robotic arm dislodged the spent supply craft and cast the vessel into space, where it will soon dive into Earth's atmosphere.

Asteroid Vesta likely had enough impacts to erase a flurry of space rock collisions about four billion years ago.

In line with his intent to make space travel safe for families, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson let his granddaughter – Eva-Deia, one year old today – spill some ceremonial milk across the bow of ‘Unity,’ as SS2 will now be called.

The hunt for gravitational waves took decades — what's it like to see the target of your life's work finally revealed?

Virgin Galactic will roll out the next SpaceShipTwo, and reveal the new craft's name, today (Feb. 19) during a ceremony at the company's manufacturing facility in Mojave, California.

Here's how to see Gemini this week, hanging about halfway up in the eastern sky as darkness falls.

Escorted by corporate sponsor Land Rover, Virgin Galactic unveiled its second spaceship on 19 February 2016.

VSS Unity, the new SpaceShipTwo space plane by Virgin Galactic, was unveiled at an event in Mojave, California, on Feb. 19, 2016.

Virgin Galactic rolled the second SpaceShipTwo out of its hangar today (Feb. 19) during a ceremony here at the Mojave Air & Space Port, and also revealed the brand-new suborbital vehicle's name — VSS Unity.

More than 18,300 people have applied for 14 or fewer spots in NASA's next astronaut class, blasting past the 1978 record of 8,000 applicants.

Astronaut outfits, hoverboard Barbies and electric play-dough are just some of the awesome new items we saw at New York Toy Fair that we'd like to bring home.

"Just wait until you see the Enterprise." Those were the words we heard walking through Spin Master's booth at Toy Fair 2016.

Settling space requires input from more than the usual suspects.

If you've been dreaming of a real-life BB-8 ever since you saw "The Force Awakens," then your dreams are about to come true.

A new documentary skims the history of telescopes and explains why everyone, not just scientists, should be excited about the James Webb Space Telescope.