Новости за 22.02.2017

The ultra cool dwarf star system is about 39 light-years from Earth. Find out how long it would take NASA’s Space Shuttle, the New Horizons spacecraft and Breakthrough Starshot’s proposed laser sail-propelled vehicle to travel to the system.

The historic NASA spacecraft that flew with the first U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon will launch on a national tour celebrating the 50 years since its lunar mission.

Snow plays an important role in Earth's water cycle, and NASA has launched a new initiative to investigate snow and its relationship to readily available liquid water.

NASA's first orbital spaceflight 55 years ago asked big questions about the unknowns of human spaceflight — many of which we're still asking today.

There's a powerful gamma-ray signal blasting from the massive galaxy's core, possibly revealing a compact region filled with annihilating dark matter particles.

A software glitch caused an abort of the Dragon spacecraft's rendezvous with the International Space Station this morning (Feb. 22, 2017). NASA PAO commentator Rob Navias explains.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos on Wednesday launched the unpiloted Progress 66 cargo ship early Wednesday (Feb. 22) on a mission to deliver fresh supplies to the International Space Station.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship packed with nearly three tons of supplies aborted its rendezvous to the International Space Station early Wednesday (Feb. 22) due to a navigation software glitch, NASA officials said.

The hunt for signs of life on seven exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which lies just 39 light-years from Earth, will likely begin just a few years from now.

Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015, will officially propose a new definition of "planet" next month — one that gives Pluto its planethood back.

On Feb. 22, 2017, scientists announced the discovery of TRAPPIST-1, an alien solar system with at least seven Earth-sized planets. See pictures of the discovery here.

Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit the same tiny, dim star, and all of them may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports.

Most, if not all, of the 7 Earth-sized planets in the ultra cool dwarf star system may only face one way towards their sun, similar to Earth’s moon. Their orbits range from 1.94 days to about 20.

About 39 light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit an ultra cool dwarf star and the European Space Agency is call it the “the most incredible star system (find) to date.”

The NASA telescope sights were set on the system for 500 hours (about 21 days) and transits of the planets identified and characterized them. TRAPPIST-1 is 39 light years away and harbors 7 earth-sized planets.

An dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1, which is located about 39 light-years from Earth, harbors more planets than previously observed.