Новости за 18.07.2016

On July 18, 2016, SpaceX launched its robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station and brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back down for a landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. See images here.

SpaceX plans to refly one of its landed Falcon 9 rockets for the first time this fall — and a robotic Dragon cargo capsule should make history by launching on a repeat ISS resupply mission shortly thereafter.

All of the books ever written, the genetic blueprint for human life and much of the other information that defines us as a species could soon be riding laser beams toward faraway exoplanets.

The private spaceflight company is leading the rocket reusability race with five successful landing to date. See all five 'touchdowns' - two 'solid ground' and three 'droneship' landings.

An unmanned Russian cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station late Monday (July 18), delivering tons of supplies even as yet another cargo ship launched toward the orbiting lab.

After a star dies, the energy ejected from the colossal explosion forms what is known as a nebula — a ginormous, colorful interstellar cloud of gas and dust.

The powerful loops of magnetic fields behind sunspots rise to the surface of the sun much more slowly than previously thought, a new study finds. The discovery could force researchers to rethink some of their ideas about how and why sunspots form.

Space.com talked with Sean Ono Lennon about his new band, "The Claypool Lennon Delirium." The band's first record, "Monolith of Phobos," takes inspiration from moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.

SpaceX nailed its fifth successful rocket landing in a brilliant overnight flight today (July 18), and to celebrate we've combined all five of the private spaceflight company's booster landings into this single awesome video.

NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted four possibly rocky alien planets orbiting the same star, and two of these newfound worlds might be capable of supporting life, scientists said.

The European Space Agency's penchant for a major lunar exploration program that would precede a full-scale exploration of Mars was fully in evidence on July 12 with the signing of a contract to put an ESA drill on Russia's Luna-Resurs lunar lander.

Alien worlds orbiting within the habitable zones of small red dwarf stars may become truly habitable if their atmospheric circulation balances the temperature extremes.

The NEOWISE mission is getting better at seeking out and characterizing the asteroids that buzz Earth.

The private spaceflight company landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after it launched the CRS-9 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The private spaceflight company launched their Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on July 18, 2016. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the ISS re-supply mission landed at Landing Zone 1 at the Cape.

SpaceX landed a rocket during a successful cargo launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday morning (July 18), marking the fifth time in the last seven months that the company has pulled off the daring maneuver.