Новости за 15.12.2016

Water ice exists on the surface of Ceres, new observations have confirmed. The water ice is harbored in regions on the surface of this massive asteroid that are permanently cloaked in shadow.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit took photos of many cosmic events while on his three space flights. From star trails and terrestrial lights to airglow and auroras, he captured his moments in space with skill and beauty.

Mars' South Pole offers a landscape Earthlings simply cannot identify with.

Ranger 7 was the first American spacecraft to image the moon's surface from close-up. Those pictures helped set the stage for later manned landings.

The Cold War may have ended decades ago, but spy satellites' data from that era are now being used for a new mission: tracking environmental change in the Himalayas.

As engineers continue to study an engine issue with NASA's Juno spacecraft, the mission's principal investigator said that a problem that put the spacecraft into a safe mode was related to a problem handling data from one of the spacecraft's instruments.

'Hidden Figures' hits theaters in limited release on December 25, 2016 and opens wide on January 6, 2017.

Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, has joined a group created by President-elect Trump to provide advice on the economy for the incoming administration.

Eight satellites were air-launched by an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket after it was dropped from an L-1011 carrier plane. The satellites will monitor winds above the ocean.

A rocket fired from a jet plane Thursday (Dec. 15) to launch NASA's latest Earth-observing mission, an 8-satellite mission to study hurricanes like never before.

Saturn's moon Mimas looks suspiciously like the Death Star, a colossal planet-destroying space weapon that terrorizes a galaxy far, far away…

Mission controllers have a better understanding of the problem that cropped up recently with the Mars rover Curiosity's drill, but a fix remains elusive.

Our search for other Earths has grown at an astonishing pace: The very first planet orbiting another star was found just over 20 years ago, and now more than 3,000 of them draw researchers' eyes.

What happens when a spacecraft in Mars orbit dies of old age? Well, there'd better be a plan to replace it.

The chaos of war, alien planets and a looming Death Star draw "Rogue One" viewers into the "Star Wars" universe — especially on IMAX.

IBM's question-answering whiz, the Watson computer system, is digging into aerospace research and data to help NASA answer questions on the frontier of spaceflight science and make crucial decisions in the moment during air travel.

Don Pettit has flown in space three times, two of them long-duration stays on the International Space Station, and he made the most of his extended time in space capturing hundreds of thousands of photographs of what astronauts see from space.

Using data from the NASA Dawn mission, the weight percentage of hydrogen has been visualized over shape models of Ceres and Vesta. (animation is looped several times).

The dwarf planet Ceres has water in its skin. New observations have provided direct evidence that in water ice is ubiquitous in the surface and shallow subsurface of this massive asteroid.