Новости за 28.09.2016

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe will meet its demise on September 30, 2016 when a maneuver is performed to make it crash into Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. This visualization shows the descent, but stops short of it crashing.

Sierra Nevada Corporation and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs are teaming up to launch a two-week mission to low-Earth orbit in 2021 using the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft.

SpaceX plans to name the first of its many Mars-colonizing ships after "Heart of Gold," a spaceship in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by the late lamented Douglas Adams, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

The spaceship that SpaceX is building to colonize Mars could also take people out to Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa and beyond, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

Early settlers be warned: the chance of death is quite high.

The event is simply the second new moon in a single calendar month, which makes it particularly special for pagans, but pretty lousy as a purveyor of doom.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek," the Paley Center for Media in New York City hosted 50 pieces of art by 50 artists in a gallery.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek: The Original Series," CBS has curated a traveling art gallery featuring 50 "Star Trek"-inspired pieces by 50 artists from 10 countries.

In 1977, NASA sent two spacecraft off in different directions, each carrying a golden record with the sounds, greetings and music of the people of Earth — and the radio program "Science Friday" says it's about time for an update.

NASA's Juno spacecraft trekked 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) to reach Jupiter, and a new video documents the probe's long-awaited approach into orbit around the gas giant.

Europe's history-making Rosetta comet mission is coming to an end, and you can watch the grand finale live Thursday and Friday (Sept. 29 and Sept. 30).

NASA's Europa orbiter mission, set to launch toward Jupiter's moon in the 2020s, would be able to collect samples of the icy plumes of water that might erupt from Europa's surface.

It's only in the habitable zone — the "Goldilocks" region around a star where water can exist in liquidy peace — that life is possible. Or so scientists thought.

Two of cosmology's greatest mysteries — dark matter, and the expansion of the early universe — are tied together in a new research paper, which searches for small, dense knots of one to understand the other.

A Russian aviation company said Sept. 27 it plans to acquire the assets of Sea Launch from RSC Energia with the hopes of resuming launches in about two years.

Even as he rolled out an ambitious program of heavy-lift rockets and spacecraft to send people to Mars, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk his top near-term priority is to complete an investigation into the Falcon 9 pad explosion this month.