Новости за 11.10.2016

A private rocket launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Friday night (Oct. 14) could potentially be visible to millions of skywatchers along the U.S. East Coast, weather permitting.

President Barack Obama wants the U.S. space program to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and eventually into deep space, he wrote in a CNN op-ed published today (Oct. 11).

Don Pettit captured video of a recent flight that saw his fellow astronauts Barry "Butch” Wilmore and Stephanie Wilson bank low over Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) project is trying to cut spaceflight costs by implementing more efficient technologies. Project manager Meg Nazario at the space agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland explains the work being done.

A new initiative called "Project Blue" aims to spy on our interstellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to capture an unprecedented visible-light image of any Earth-like planets that might orbit there.

To date, 550 people have been to outer space, and every single one of them has been old enough to rent a car. Will a kid make the trip anytime soon?

NASA selected six private companies to design and develop deep space habitats under the second Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) Broad Agency Announcement. Here are the new prototypes they created.

A new face has been added to the solar system's family portrait: Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet looping around the sun in the region beyond Pluto.

Now is a good time to view China's newly launched space lab, Tiangong-2. Here's how to see it.

How do lightsabers work? Do droids have rights? Would Kylo Ren's weapon slice off his wrists during combat? These are just some of the scientific questions that "Star Wars" and science experts aimed to answer Saturday (Oct. 8) here at New York Comic Con.

NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) partners Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corporation and NanoRacks have revealed concept images of habitat modules.

Three distinct planet-forming disks, all of which are misaligned with one another, revolve around two newborn stars in a binary system about 400 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.