Новости за 10.02.2017

Astronomers have established a new timeline for the solar system that is helping to pinpoint when gas giants Jupiter and Saturn likely formed.

A false color image of the region was processed using the near-infrared channel of ESA’s Sentinel-2A satellite. It shows rare snow cover on the island over the mountainous regions on Jan. 8, 2017, including active volcano Mount Etna.

BepiColombo is a planned European-Japanese mission to Mercury. It is set to launch in 2018.

A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape.

A hypothesis about meteorites gets put to the test in a new mission to the icy continent.

Traveling at 20 percent the speed of light, scientists are worried that the Hawking-backed Breakthrough Starshot nanoprobes will be moving too fast to do any science — unless they use starlight pressure to slow them down at their destination.

By using a quirk of Einstein's general relativity and applying a new technique to remove obscuring light, astronomers have found an ancient population of the universe's first galaxies.

The moon performs a complex dance that makes it shrink and swell in apparent size, wobble to and fro, and nod up and down.

Jeff Bezos' private space company is eyeing 2020 to begin flights of the orbital New Glenn rocket.

Weather may affect viewing conditions for tonight's (Feb. 10) penumbral lunar eclipse. Clouds will cover the sky in much of the Northeast, and the main event will start too late for West Coast viewing.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends its love this Valentine's Day with photos of Saturn’s beautiful rings, moons and polar vortex.

Fall in love with space all over again with these romantic images from across the universe.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in the July 2015, snapping several photos of the dwarf planet and its giant, heart-shaped geographical feature.

Depending on where you are, a penumbral lunar eclipse will occur in the late evening of February 10 or the early morning of Feb. 11. “The moon will darken slightly as it passes through the outer edges of Earth’s shadow."