Новости за 05.08.2016

In 2017, CBS will launch "Star Trek: Discovery," the next TV series in the iconic "Star Trek" science fiction franchise. See images from the show as they are unveiled.

The new comic book movie continues an old sci-fi tradition — extrapolating the possibilities of existing science and technology.

Slooh Community Observatory will give viewers a rare sight of the new moon today (Aug. 5) from its telescope in the Canary Islands in a broadcast that will also discuss the importance of the new moon in the Islamic calendar.

Just in time for the Olympic Games in Rio, NASA has unveiled a new project called "AstrOlympics" that compares the feats of the athletes to amazing things found in space.

On the night of Aug. 5, 2012, a rocket-powered "sky crane" lowered the car-size Curiosity onto Mars' red dirt using cables — a technique that had never been employed on the surface of another world before.

The prime meridian actually lies more than 300 feet (90 meters) from the historical marker at England's Royal Observatory.

During a scheduled contact session on July 28, mission team members discovered that Kepler's camera had turned off. But the instrument powered back on again, and Kepler resumed "autonomous science operations" on Monday (Aug. 1), NASA officials said.

You've never seen a rocket test quite like this. A new NASA video captures the eerie beauty of a massive rocket motor test in super slow-motion using an innovative new camera.

Nearly 50 years after landing on the moon, mankind has now set its sights on sending the first humans to Mars. The difference is in more than just time.

Astronauts on the International Space Station are cheering on their home nations at the 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which starts today (Aug. 5).

A vast tract of space near the center of the Milky Way — in an area called the inner disk — is completely devoid of young stars, new research shows.

Is it really easier to live in a world with no money? The new book "Trekonomics" investigates.

NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) captured stunning imagery of a mid-level solar flare on July 24, 2016. Magnetic forces unleashed by the flare drive the motion of the plasma seen looping above and raining down on the surface.

NASA’s High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) was used to capture the recent Orbital ATK’s QM-2 solid rocket booster test. It records multiple high speed video exposures at the same time.