Новости за 18.01.2017

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) took measurements from 6300 weather stations across the world, sea surface teships and buoys for sea surface temperatures and measurements from Antarctic research stations to come to the conclusion.

Creating clouds in the sky or redirecting sunlight to bring down the Earth's temperature could have an effect on astronomy.

Using measurements from 6,300 locations, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has come to the conclusion that 2016 was the warmest ever and is breaks the record set just last year.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will have the largest convex mirror ever produced and an unusual concave tertiary mirror. The European Southern Observatory has signed contracts to cast the mirrors.

"His drive, his motivation, was trying to pass that same desire onto young people today, to help them understand that just as he did it, coming from small town America, they can do the same," says NASA administrator Charles Bolden.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hold a joint press conference this morning (Jan. 18) at 11 a.m. EDT (4 p.m. GMT) to unveil their report on the changing climate in 2016.

The generation of NASA astronauts who traveled beyond Earth orbit is now in their 80s.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, a first-timer aboard the International Space Station, ventured out into the void of space for his first spacewalk on Friday (Jan. 13) and Pesquet snapped several photos, including some spectacular self-portraits.

The largest single-piece astronomical mirrors ever made are slowly coming together for an eagle-eyed ground-based telescope.

NASA's New Horizons mission has revealed, for the first time, evidence of ice features known as "penitentes" beyond Earth.

The moon, Jupiter and the bright star Spica are going to perform a celestial display before dawn on Thursday, Jan. 19. Here's how to see them.

'Star Trek: Discovery' has been delayed again.

NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed shallow crevices on Mars' surface that suggest the planet had an ancient, watery past.

Last year (2016) was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials said today (Jan. 18) during a news conference. Here's how they calculated that value.

NASA is proposing to purchase, through Boeing, additional Soyuz seats for International Space Station missions to both take advantage of Russian plans to decrease the size of its crew and as insurance against potential additional commercial crew delays.

Before Elon Musk's private spaceflight company can use its rockets to transport NASA astronauts into space in 2018, it has a lot of work to do.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has stumbled onto another rock that likely fell from space.

The author of "The Martian" just got the "go" for a pilot of a different type. Andy Weir, who penned the book that served as the basis for the 2015 feature film "The Martian," has now written "Mission Control," a space adventure headed for television.