Новости за 08.02.2017

Guion "Guy" Bluford is a former NASA astronaut who was the first African-American to fly into space. He flew four shuttle missions.

On Tuesday, Feb. 7 a tornado hit NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes struck the state of Louisiana on Tuesday (Feb. 7). A weather satellite operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured an overhead view of the weather system responsible.

A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists.

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, returning to the inner solar system after more than five years, will be visible this week with binoculars or a small telescope.

Some stars can be the size of a planet, others can be more than 1400 times bigger than the Sun. Different types of stars are shown to scale in this European Southern Observatory visualization.

The first space shuttle external tank to stand on a launch pad was destroyed by a tornado that hit the New Orleans facility where it was built 40 years ago.

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility has begun recovery efforts after a tornado hit the New Orleans location yesterday (Feb. 8).

Water's odd behavior in weightlessness comes under scrutiny in a new European Space Agency video, which shows an astronaut spinning small jars for science.

A star's demise shines in stunning detail in an image released by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A stray black hole has been found wandering from a dense cosmic gas cloud in our Milky Way galaxy.

The desert planet Arrakis is imaginary — from the famous science fiction series "Dune" — but the star it's said to orbit is real: Canopus, the second brightest star as seen from Earth. Here, Canopus shines above a volcano range on La Palma, Canary Islands

Spaceflight really goes to astronauts' heads, it would appear.

SpaceX is preparing to launch its 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, now set for Feb. 18.

A new satellite image shows the disappearing Larsen Ice Shelf of Antarctica.

Eight potential locations will be studied only three or four will be prioritized for exploration by NASA's next rover mission to the Red Planet.

Jupiter is often cited as Earth's protector — but Saturn may actually be hero of the day.

A trailer for the new Netflix talk show "Bill Nye Saves the World" promises loads of science experiments, celebrity guests and ultra-nerdy humor.

A startup near-space ballooning company is hoping to not only capture spectacular footage of this August's solar eclipse over the United States, but also break the high-altitude jump record set by Felix Baumgartner in 2012.

February's Snow Moon will be no ordinary full moon for skywatchers in most parts of the world, as it coincides with a special lunar eclipse that will cast a dusky shadow over the full moon's usual bright, glowing face.

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Swift satellite, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton have been studying X-ray source XJ1500+154, which is 1.8 billion light-years from Earth.

The explosion that opened the atomic age more than 70 years ago is helping scientists understand another dramatic event: the formation of the moon.

A green-colored glass, called trinitite, was found 30 feet (10m) to 80 feet (250 m) away from ground zero after the first plutonium bomb test in 1945. They were lacking volatile elements similarly to that of lunar rocks.

Astronomers studying a globular cluster have found a long-sought middleweight black hole in 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster, showing that such black holes could be hiding out in these compact groups of stars.

Actresses Taraj P. Henson (Katherine Jackson), Octavia Spencer (Dorothy Vaughan), and Janelle Monáe (Mary Jackson) give their answers to Space.com’s Sarah Lewin.