Новости за 26.10.2016

Doctors to astronauts: We've got your back.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it — but too much water could stop the evolution of complex lifeforms in its tracks.

The entire surface of Proxima b — the possible Earth-like planet orbiting our closest star, Proxima Centauri — may be covered in a liquid ocean, according to new models created to simulate the planet’s mysterious composition.

About a half-hour after sunset Thursday evening (Oct. 27), look low in the southwest sky to spot a planetary/stellar lineup of two bright planets and one of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky.

The University of Cincinnati's Hyperloop pod prototype achieved magnetic levitation and is headed to a test track at SpaceX headquarters in early 2017.

Elliot Pulham, the longtime chief executive of the Space Foundation, has resigned effective immediately, the organization announced Oct. 24.

A third U.S. Air Force weather satellite that launched more than 20 years ago has broken up in orbit, Air Force Space Command disclosed Monday evening.

The White House announced a new initiative Oct. 21 to promote the development of small satellites, collecting under one roof a number of efforts, some of which started months ago.

A handful of the 135 space shuttle missions were classified, and little is known about these secret missions, even 30 years after the fact.

A new survey suggests that gas halos around distant galaxies are colder and more common than previously believed, which could throw off some theories about galaxy formation.

Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered 19 quasars with large bright halos of gas surrounding them. According to their statistics, they only expected to find 2 halos in their survey.

Over the next few months, the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project will search for possible signs of intelligent alien life coming from Tabby's star, whose strange dimming episodes have puzzled astronomers.

Venus was made at the very beginning of the solar system after the solar nebula collapsed.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has bounced back from the glitch that prevented it from gathering any data during its flyby of Jupiter last week, agency officials said.

A moderate geomagnetic storm in Earth's magnetic field likely created some luminous auroras in the northern United States last night (Oct. 25).

Spectacular photos captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a curious color change over Saturn's north pole. The occurrence may be linked to seasonal changes and the planet's enormous hexagonal jet stream.

A tiny satellite has provided the first good look at China's orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab.

October's supermoon occurred this past weekend (Oct. 16), and skywatchers who missed it will have two more chances to see supermoons before 2016 comes to an end — one of which will be the closest full moon approach of the 21st century.

For the first time, a litter of newborn stars has been spotted emerging from the same disk of gas and dust, creating a tightly packed stellar family.