Новости за 16.02.2017

PLATO is a European Space Agency telescope that will seek out and investigate Earth-size exoplanets.

The Rocket Labs produced vehicle is designed to carry smaller payloads (330 to 500 lbs) into orbit. It is being prepped for test launches.

SpaceX will launch its 10th commercial cargo mission Feb. 18, ferrying science investigations to the International Space Station that include a deadly superbug, an advanced lightning sensor, a tool for new autonomous rendezvous capabilities and more.

On Friday (Feb. 10), a 3D printer aboard the International Space Station created a sculpture that represents human laughter — the first significant piece of art ever to be produced off Earth, project representatives said.

For thousands of years, historians have viewed solar eclipses as omens of things to come. One eclipse even helped physicists to confirm the bending of light predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Watch the sun break out in spots over and over again in a new YouTube video showing seven years of sunspot footage, collected by the NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

After five years, a California company called Planet has more than 100 satellites in orbit, allowing it to begin selling and providing images of the entire Earth every day.

The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (Sage-III), which is will be launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX-10 cargo mission, will use solar and lunar occultations to “get a vertical profile of the (ozone layer) gases,” accord

One of the greatest feats of human migration in history was the colonization of the vast Pacific Ocean by Polynesian peoples. They achieved it thanks to their sophisticated knowledge of positional astronomy and celestial navigation.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is about to fly into Mars' upper atmosphere, using its drag to slow down and refine its orbit.

Although there's some fear surrounding the act of sending messages to hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligences, it could be one of the most important things humanity could do — scientifically speaking.

U.S. lawmakers have authored legislation to christen NASA's first Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket the "Cernan 1" for the late Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon. If passed into law, Cernan's name could fly with a crew back to the

The NEEMO 19 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 19) mission gave astronauts the opportunity to ‘waterwalk’ to simulate spacewalks, train with communication delays and test wearable computers.

Rocket Lab, a private company aiming to become a leading launch provider for small satellites, delivered its first test rocket to the company's private launch facility this week. The organization plans to make its first launch in the coming months.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has spotted organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life — on Ceres for the first time, a new study reports.