Новости за 14.09.2016

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden quoted poet William James and songwriter Norah Jones in a speech he gave yesterday (Sept. 13) describing the need for collaboration in spaceflight.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she supports plans to send humans to Mars, a central theme of the current administration’s civil space policy.

Humankind has just been presented with the the precise position and brightness of 1,140,622,719 stars in the first data release from the European Space Agency mission (ESA). It is the "largest all-sky survey of celestial objects" according to the sp

Virgin Galactic announced a contract for four launches of satellites for a planned communications constellation.

New software, previewed last night (Sept. 12) at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, steps through every kink and curl in the complicated process of getting NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to its faraway asteroid, Bennu.

The competition between billionaire space entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos has reached a new level.

The results of this new study could lead to better earthquake forecasting.

The first launch of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket with a new first stage engine is now planned for early October, a company official said Sept. 13.

The Campo del Cielo meteor shower fell over 4,000 years ago, now one of the largest chunks has been dredged from the dirt.

The private spaceflight company Blue Origin plans to launch a crucial abort test of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle next month, and you can get a sneak peek at the action in a new video animation.

NASA has made a great deal of progress in finding the asteroids that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there's still a lot of work to do, said John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.

A robotic mission will rendezvous with a target asteroid (referenced as '2008 EV5' in the video) and collect a boulder for later study. The spacecraft will also be used as an 'enhanced gravity tractor.'

The most detailed map yet of a billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy was released today (Sept. 14), along with a sneak peek at brand-new data on millions of stars collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.

In the 24th century, Starfleet served synthehol; a sad state of affairs for connoisseurs of alcohol. But mondern-day beer-loving Trekkies can take heart: a new beer called Voyage to the Northeast Quadrant honors the shows 50th anniversary.

Pluto may be sharing its atmosphere with its largest moon, Charon, creating the visually striking red spot at the satellite's north pole.