Новости за 26.07.2016

A live event combining virtual reality and musical performance in Brooklyn will be — literally — out of this world.

The famous 87-year-old telescope at Lowell Observatory that was used to discover Pluto needs to be renovated so it can seek out the dwarf planet once more.

Ceres, the largest asteroid between Jupiter and Mars, should have more large craters on its surface than it does. A new study shows just how striking the dearth of craters is, and suggests that the dwarf planet's ice volcanos may have erased the craters f

It lives through the 'most violent phase of the solar system’s collision-prone past' according to the Southwest Research Institute, but imagery shows only 16 craters bigger than 62 miles (100 km) wide.

NASA sent a team to represent them at Comic-Con International 2016 in San Diego. The guest list included: astronaut Kjell Lindgren, astronomer Amber Straughn and engineers Bobak Ferdowski and Rebekah Sosland Siefriedt.

Facebook on July 21 said the first flight of its full-scale Aquila solar-powered aircraft designed for regional internet connectivity was a success, lasting longer than expected despite an unspecified "structural failure" just before landing.

The sun fired off its strongest solar flare of 2016 during an active weekend that saw three eruptions from star's surface.

Today (July 26) marks the 45th anniversary of the successful Apollo 15 mission, the first of a series of "J" missions, which allowed for a longer stay on the moon and greater surface mobility, using a lunar roving vehicle (LRV).

If you're a space traveler lost in the universe, a team of astronomers here on Earth has your back: They've made the largest ever 3D map of galaxies that humanity can see.

A new company called Audacy aims to provide the communications capacity required for the ongoing private spaceflight revolution.

Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.

Interns at private spaceflight company United Launch Alliance aren't fetching coffee — they're building record-breaking rockets, including the 50-foot-tall Future Heavy, which launched Sunday.

Above the low clouds on Pico Mountain, skywatcher Miguel Claro captured this incredible 'rainbow airglow' in March 2016 from Pico Island, Azores.

The 'Star Trek' alumni talks about science fiction inspiring science and exploration.