Новости за 11.03.2016

The next robotic mission to Mars has rolled out to the launchpad ahead of its planned Monday (March 14) liftoff.

The greatest discoveries require more than knowledge, they demand persistence.

Frozen methane caps the tallest peaks in a 260-mile-long (420 kilometers) mountain range in the southeastern part of Pluto's Cthulhu region, a dark-red area bigger than the state of Alaska, a newly released photo shows.

Astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently completed an unprecedented yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station and holds the American record for most days spent off Earth, will retire from NASA on April 1, agency officials announced today (March 1

The ExoMars mission launching Monday (March 14) aims to kick off a new European program of exploration — and reboot Russian dreams of working at the Red Planet.

On the evening of Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his newly constructed telescope on the planet Jupiter, and was amazed to observe three tiny stars in a neat row alongside it, two on the left and one on the right.

A celebration of Venetia Burney and Benny Benson, who named Pluto and designed Alaska's state flag at the ages of 11 and 13, respectively.

NASA can claim six recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers this year — an award considered among the highest for early-career researchers.

The rocket carrying the European/Russian mission, that will look for life on Mars, was rolled out and moved into a vertical launch position in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It is scheduled to launch on March 14th, 2016.

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An RS-25D rocket engine that launched five space shuttle missions, including the second to last flight of the program in 2011, has been fired again to prepare for the first crewed mission onboard NASA's new Space Launch System rocket.

The European/Russian ExoMars mission carries the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), which will examine the dark seasonal streaks on crater slopes that may be briny water, and the Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD).

Learn all about the European-Russian ExoMars mission, the first phase of which is scheduled to blast off atop a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday (March 14) at 5:31 a.m. EST.