Новости за 11.11.2016

Annalea Beattie and her fellow Mars 160 crewmembers have some new neighbors in the Utah desert — researchers testing out technology for future Red Planet rovers.

A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar.

Skywatchers will be in for a treat on Monday (Nov. 14) with the rise of the biggest and brightest "supermoon" in almost 69 years. Space.com spoke with Noah Petro, the deputy scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.

In "Heroes & Legends," the new attraction at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the public can learn more about NASA's historic astronauts and see the missions that made them heroes (and the artifacts they created in the process).

"Arrival" (2016) is a science-fiction movie that is at once mellow and engrossing, and conveys both the terror and the unblinking fascination that would very likely overwhelm the first humans to make contact with an alien race.

A sharp-eyed Earth-observing satellite is launching today (Nov. 11), and you can watch all the spaceflight action live.

Maria Mitchell was a 19th-century astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847. She also co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Women.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discoveries about variable stars helped other astronomers measure stellar distances.

Annie Jump Cannon was a female astronomer best known for coming up with the current system of stellar classification. She was one of the so-called Harvard computers who analyzed photographic plates of the stars.

On Monday (Nov. 14) at 6:15 a.m. EST, the moon will arrive at its closest point to the Earth (known as perigee) in 2016: a distance of 221,524 miles (356,508 km) away. This distance is within 85 miles (137 km) of the moon's closest possible approach to Ea

The year's best alien encounter movie, starring Amy Adams, is a thoughtful meditation on science, language and change.

Each president who comes into office tries to make a mark on space, a new documentary film argues — but the visions of three generations of presidents have not been enough to push us into a science fiction future like "Star Trek."

Skywatchers will be able to gaze upon the biggest and brightest "supermoon" in almost 69 years on Nov. 14th, 2016. Live Science spoke with Noah Petro, the deputy scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, about to view it.

ASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough sent a video message from the International Space Station, honoring the sacrifices of U.S. service men and women this Veterans Day (Nov. 11).

Watch humanity's first voyage to Mars unfold in National Geographic's new miniseries, "Mars." The show premieres on Monday (Nov. 14) at 8 p.m. EST in the U.S.

On Nov. 11, 2016, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the powerful WorldView-4 satellite into orbit for the Earth observation imagery firm DigitalGlobe. See photos from the launch.

The WorldView-4 satellite lifted off today (Nov. 11) at 1:30 p.m. EST, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base to a near sun-synchronous, pole-to-pole orbit.

On Nov. 11, 2016, DigitalGlobe Earth-observing satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin.