Новости за 30.09.2016

At around 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT) today (Sept. 30), Rosetta is scheduled to crash-land intentionally on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ending the European spacecraft's epic 12-year mission.

The Rosetta spacecraft will crash land into Comet 67P after more than a decade in space, concluding one of the greatest unmanned space missions.

Find out when and where Venus, Saturn, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will be in the night sky this month. The constellations of Pegasus and Andromeda have a bevy of skywatching targets and the Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night of Oct. 21-22.

Today (Sept. 30) marks the end of operations for the European Space Agency's (ESA) historic Rosetta mission, and the mood felt almost funereal as the postlanding celebration began.

Find out when and where the new, crescent, quarter and full moon phases will occur this month. Also the Taurid, Orionid and Draconid meteor showers will 'rain.'

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission came to an end on Sept. 30, when the spacecraft made a planned crash landing on Comet 67P.

The mission team in Darmstadt, Germany confirmed the loss of signal with the Rosetta probe as it crash landed into comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Even though it will be nearly invisible to skywatchers, a rare Black Moon will be in North American skies today (Sept. 30).

The Rosetta probe drifted down to the surface of Comet 67P today (Sept. 30) and ended its 12-year mission.

Here is our complete coverage of Elon Musk’s plan for colonizing Mars using SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System (ITS).

The Tanegashima Space Center is Japan's biggest rocket-launching facility. Missions launched there take cargo to the International Space Station.

Earth's ocean creates little magnetic fields that ebb and flow along with the tides. A new study explains how measuring these magnetic fields with satellites can reveal information about the Earth's interior structure and composition.

Rosetta captured its last view of Comet 67P from an altitude of about 65 feet (20 meters).

The first people who fly with SpaceX to Mars should be OK with the possibility that the decision could cost them their lives, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.