Новости за 29.03.2016

The wintertime maximum sea ice around Earth’s north pole reached a record low since satellites have been keeping track. Measured at its peak of 5.607 million square miles.

Future space stations could be built on Earth and be inflated in space. A prototype of this kind of technology will fly to the International Space Station next week.

Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image from mountains about 60 miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska on March 19, 2015 while leading his annual aurora tour and workshop.

The Air Force has stopped trying to recover a two-year-old weather satellite after operators lost the ability to command the spacecraft last month, an Air Force spokesman said March 24.

A team of researchers will launch a well-studied fungus into space with the hope that it will produce new molecules to aid in novel medicines for astronauts as well as patients on the ground.

A fragment from a recovered rocket stage, a segment of netting used on the moon and a chunk from a space shuttle's tire are among the more than 200 artifacts being auctioned to benefit a small Florida museum dedicated to honoring and preserving space hist

The aviation giant aims to take astronauts to the International Space Station in a capsule that is similar to Apollo spacecraft.

In his new book "Abandon in Place," photographer Roland Miller takes readers on a visually stunning, emotionally charged tour of various abandoned facilities connected to NASA's space program.

A team of entrepreneurs launched the "Infinity Pen" — which houses a tiny chunk of the 65-foot-wide Chelyabinsk asteroid — on Kickstarter today (March 29). Backers of the campaign have the chance to buy one of the meteorite pens for $55.

Take that, Jupiter! The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planetary collision on camera.

John McKeon captured an impact on the gas giant on March 17th, 2016 (00:18:45 UT). The video was snapped using an an 11" SCT with an ASI120mm camera and Ir-pass 742nm filter. It was most likely an asteroid or comet colliding with Jupiter.

Paul Maley captured the Hitomi spacecraft in distress while orbiting the Earth. The video shows the spacecraft flashing light back towards Earth, revealing the tumble. If the satellite was in a stable orbit its light magnitude would remain constant.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is struggling to understand exactly what went wrong with its brand-new astronomy satellite Hitomi, which suffered some sort of malfunction over the weekend and is apparently tumbling in space.