Новости за 16.09.2016

The Japanese satellite launched in September 2006 and has delivered amazing imagery ever since.

From April 25-27, 2016, the NASA probe had its cameras fixated on Saturn. The planet's hexagon-shaped jet stream at the north pole, shadowed rings and more are featured.

Some Red Planet lakes and streams formed just 2 billion to 3 billion years ago, a new study suggests. That's a surprise, because researchers think Mars had already lost most of its atmosphere, and had therefore likely become too cold to host liquid water

The full moon known as this year's Harvest Moon will rise tonight (Sept.16) and will be shaded by a subtle type of eclipse for some skywatchers in Africa, Asia and Australia.

"Operation Avalanche" premieres in theaters this Friday (Sept. 16). In the fake documentary, two CIA agents pose as documentary filmmakers to infiltrate NASA and investigate a Russian mole. Then they stage the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.

Kate Rubins, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, debuted a colorful painted flight suit as part of an effort to raise awareness about childhood cancer and the benefits of pairing art with medicine.

Europe's Vega small-satellite launcher on Sept. 15 successfully placed five high-resolution optical Earth observation satellites — one for the Peruvian government and four for Google-owned Terra Bella — into low Earth orbit.

A cereal box-size satellite, fueled by water power, is in the running for the first tiny satellite to orbit the moon.

The Cassini spacecraft has studied Saturn for 12 years, and the probe has just one more year to go before its final dive into the planet itself.

Meteorites that crashed onto Earth billions of years ago may have provided the phosphorous essential to the biological systems of terrestrial life.

A supermassive black hole in the core of a galaxy churns up hot gas from its own accretion disk to create a cloaking torus.