Новости за 23.09.2016

The second new moon in a single month is known as the Black Moon. It occurs about once every 32 months. Find out more here.

Elon Musk and his SpaceX rocketeers are blueprinting a plan to land humans on Mars in 2025 and to land payloads onto the Red Planet’s surface at each 26 month opportunity starting in 2018.

Four individual satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) set a record for the closest flying formation ever achieved by a multi-craft space mission. The satellite quartet orbits Earth, studying magnetic reconnection.

On Saturday (Sept. 24), the crewmembers of the Mars 80 mission — who hail from France, Japan, Russia, Australia, India and Canada — will begin work at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), a facility in Utah run by the Mars Society.

In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll travel the celestial and see ancient starlight with our own two eyes.

NASA used many cameras to monitor the performance of the Orbital ATK solid rocket booster, being developed for the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

Three NASA astronauts who died in a fire on the launch pad may be honored with a new monument at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Apollo 1 Memorial Act seeks to recognize 50 years since the deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

The technology SpaceX uses to land its Dragon capsule on Mars could help NASA put boots on the Red Planet.

September 2016 is host to a somewhat unusual lunar event: a second new moon in a single month, an event some people are calling a "Black Moon."

Earth has a new early warning system for spotting incoming asteroids that could collide with the planet.

A new simulation of how Pluto got its "heart" reveals that the dwarf planet most likely has a deep ocean beneath its surface.

North Korea's new rocket engine might help the country launch satellites to higher orbits, as the rogue nation claims — but the technology could also help North Korea's (possibly nuclear-armed) missiles fly farther, researchers say.

A senior U.S. State Department official said China and the United States plan to hold a second set of talks later this year to discuss how their militaries operate in space.

The Senate Commerce Committee approved a short-term NASA authorization bill Sept. 21 that is intended to provide short-term stability to NASA during the upcoming presidential transition but will cast new scrutiny on one major agency program.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will plummet it into the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Sept. 30th, 2016, putting an end to the mission. Take a look back at the historic mission through the lens of ESA and Euronews.