Новости за 11.07.2016

Nicole Stott, a former NASA astronaut who was the first person to paint what she saw out the window while still in space, continues to document the celestial view back on Earth.

"Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience" at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum in New York City gives attendees an immersive experience. Fmr. NASA astronaut and museum advisor Mike Massimino explains to Space.com's Samantha Mathewson.

A celebrated Brazilian street artist will paint a colorful mural of Neil Armstrong, honoring the late Apollo astronaut in Cincinnati, Ohio. It's one not-so-small-step for a public art effort, one giant tribute for the first man to walk on the moon.

High-energy cosmic rays blasted out by a supernova may have played a role in the climatic changes that apparently led to a die-off at the end of the Pliocene era and the start of the Pleistocene, researchers said.

The moon is now at first-quarter phase, a time when the play of light and shadow brings the most dramatic lunar features into sharp relief.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be a cadet at Starfleet Academy for a day? Well, now you have the chance with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's new interactive "Star Trek" exhibit.

Curiosity put itself into a minimal-activity "safe mode" on July 2 after noticing an anomaly. But the rover's handlers brought the six-wheeled robot out of safe mode on Saturday (July 9), and Curiosity is resuming full operations today (July 11).

Check out these photos from a preview event for the Intrepid Museum's new Star Trek exhibit that gives visitors an interactive Starfleet cadet experience.

The seemingly nondescript galaxy UGC 1382 is actually a behemoth cobbled together out of various cosmic spare parts, Frankenstein-style, a new study suggests.

Icy world 2015 RR245 (discovered in 2015) has been classified a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It was found using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii and is an estimated 435 miles.

Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. This newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said.