Новости за 30.11.2016

NASA needs you to rise to the Space Poop Challenge and help its astronauts go where no astronaut has gone before.

A group of 14 girls in South Africa helped conceive and build a satellite that will collect information on agriculture and natural disasters across the African continent.

The effect, called vacuum birefringence, comes from the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and predicts that strong magnetic fields could polarize light in a vacuum.

A strange quantum phenomenon predicted more than 80 years ago may have finally been observed in nature, thanks to a neutron star.

Venus and Mars can be viewed in the southwestern skies after sunset. The Perseus and Cassiopeia constellations are excellent skywatching targets. Also in mid-December, the Geminid meteor shower will peak.

A new simulation suggests at the explosive origins of ultra-diffuse galaxies, hinting that there may be many more than seen so far.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and is known for its short years, long days, extreme temperatures and weird sunsets.

A Germany-based group of rocket scientists are aiming to land a pair of privately-funded Audi-branded rovers on the moon and drive them to view NASA's Apollo 17 lunar roving vehicle, marking 45 years since humans last drove on the moon's surface.

When exploring Gusev Crater in 2007, NASA's Spirit rover discovered some curious silica deposits — were they formed by ancient Martian life?

A Chinese commercial launch-service provider created earlier this year to bid for small-satellite business worldwide expects to launch 10 of its Kuaizhou solid-fueled rockets per year between 2017 and 2020, the company said Nov. 29.

Although NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is dead, the Mercury mission's data lives on.

A decades-old galactic mystery has just been solved — new research has revealed why a distant galaxy has brightened and dimmed like a flickering candle flame over the last 30 years.

The LIGO experiment, which made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, is once again on the hunt for these ripples in the fabric of space-time.

A gas cloud "Little Friend" that is likely forming a new star has been observed in x-rays by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It was determined to be a small, dense, and very cold cloud, which are the features of a Bok globule.

The huge icy plain on Pluto known as Sputnik Planitia may not overlie an impact crater, as many researchers had assumed, a new study reports.