Новости за 07.12.2016

The Geminids come from an asteroid, 3200 Phaethon, but scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how it sheds enough debris to produce the bright meteor shower.

Light data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which spanned over 15 million galaxies at a distance of 6 billion light-years from Earth, was used to create this new map of dark matter in and 4 others. KiDS used ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Dark matter, the mysteriously invisible substance that makes up about 27 percent of the mass in the universe, may not be as clumpy as scientists previously thought.

The WGS-8 satellite lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket today (Dec. 7) at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket launched the eighth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-8) mission for the U.S. Air Force on Dec. 7, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Reaching even the closest star to the sun would take tens of thousands of years using conventional propulsion — but an antimatter engine could cut that trip down to just 40 years, according to the company Positron Dynamics.

The U.S. Air Force's WGS-8 communications satellite will take flight today (Dec. 7), and you can catch all the spaceflight action live.

While December's supermoon will wash out the peak of this year's Geminid meteor shower, you can still expect to see several bright shooting stars in the sky. There will just be fewer of them during the North American peak on the night of Dec. 13 and morni

San Francisco's Millennium Tower skyscraper is subtly sinking by a few centimeters a year, according to measurements from the European Space Agency's (ESA) twin Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.

Sony pictures is teaming up with NASA to beam the new science fiction movie "Passengers" to the International Space Station.

The former NASA Astronaut and current U.S. Senator John Glenn has been in the hospital for over a week.

Jennifer Lawrence's character "Aurora Lane" goes for a swim when suddenly artificial gravity is lost. The film premieres December 21, 2016.

NASA's Cassini probe has beamed home the first close-up images of Saturn from the new phase of its venerable mission, and they're a doozy.

Spoiler alert: the universe is flat.

SpaceX is now eyeing early January for its next mission, the first one the company will have launched since a Sept. 1 explosion grounded its fleet of Falcon 9 rockets.

An Israeli artist is crowdsourcing audio that will be sent to the International Space Station's 3-D printer and then shot into space.

The JAXA Hayabusa-2 mission will arrive at Asteroid Ryugu in 2018, but first astronomers need to study it from afar to understand what it's made of long before the spacecraft attempts to touch down.

Records dating back to clay tablets from 720 B.C. reveal that the slowing of the Earth's rotation isn't as large as expected.

NASA's Cassini mission has captured new imagery of the the unusual cloud pattern in the northern hemisphere. The camera filters used by the spacecraft are "sensitive to violet , red , near-infrared and infrared.