Новости за 27.06.2016

A star called S2 will be pass by the black hole at the center of our galaxy in 2018. The orbit of the star is highlighted in red.

A gem of a meteorite found in Antarctica is studded with pieces of opal, a crystal that is associated with water. The discovery lends greater strength to the idea that meteorites brought water to asteroids and may also have seeded the Earth with the liqui

Astrophotographer Hammad Iqbal took this image of a perfectly parallel pass of the ISS to the Milky Way from Doha, Qatar on May 6, 2016.

The raw material to create stars for millions of years is captured in this stunning, newly retrieved photo from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

The Very Large Telescope's GRAVITY instrument is online and already gathering data from the extreme environment surrounding our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

NASA's Juno probe is only one week away from its arrival at Jupiter, where it will execute a daring maneuver in order to get closer to the giant planet than any spacecraft has ever done in history.

The Long March 7 rocket — which China developed in part to help build and service a crewed space station that the nation plans to have up and running by the early 2020s — blasted off on its maiden flight Saturday (June 25).

The two small bodies that orbit the red planet raise a number of questions about the formation of the early solar system.

Hyperion is a potato-shaped moon of Saturn with an erratic rotation and eccentric orbit.

The contrast between its light and dark faces keeps Saturn's moon Iapetus hidden in shadows.

A solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System megarocket will fire for 2 minutes Tuesday at a facility in Utah, beginning at 10:05 a.m. EDT (1405 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV.

The latest installment of the Star Trek movie franchise explores tough decisions that Captain Kirk (played by Chris Pine) has to make. The rebooted franchise has made a habit of using pop music in trailers.

The capsule flown by the second American to fly into space is now part of an exhibit in the home state of its pilot.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) captured imagery of the gas giant using its VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-Infrared (VISIR) instrument. False color imagery were created from the observations (including infared).