Новости за 07.03.2016

Powerful Jupiter, attention-grabbing Mars and spectacular Saturn will dominate March's night sky: here's how to see them.

Almost 40 years after it gave chase to the space shuttle Enterprise, a NASA jet is about to catch up with the prototype winged orbiter at a museum in New York City.

On March 8th, 2016, Jupiter and Earth are closest, at 413 million miles, which happens every 13 months. In July, the Juno probe will enter Jovian orbit, skimming just 3100 miles from the cloud tops.

A painstakingly accurate re-creation of the Orion III space plane from the science fiction epic "2001: A Space Odyssey" has landed at the Space.com offices.

This eerie portrait of Mars' moon Phobos in ultraviolet light was snapped by the NASA orbiter MAVEN as their orbits crossed paths.

It what could soon be called 'Cloudgate,' 'leaked' emails appear to discuss structures in Pluto’s already hazy atmosphere as clouds.

Now we are getting familiar with Pluto's strange geology, here's some other interesting geology maps of other solar system locations.

The grounded Mars lander was supposed to have launched by now -- will it be re-scheduled for 2018? NASA is mulling it over.

NOAA satellite operators unexpectedly lost the ability to command one of the Air Force’s primary weather satellites on Feb. 11.

The U.S. Air Force will invest in Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR1 rocket engine and United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket as a way to end its dependence on the Russian rocket engine used to launch most U.S. national security payloads.

NASA's Dawn probe arrived at Ceres — the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — on March 6, 2015, and has been mapping the dwarf planet in detail ever since.

The sun will disappear completely behind the shadow of the moon in Southeast Asia tomorrow (March 8) in a total solar eclipse If you can't make it there in person, you can watch live using NASA or Slooh.