Новости за 01.03.2017

The NROL-79 satellite launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 12:49 p.m. EST (1749 GMT) today, rising off a pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The NROL-79 reconnaissance satellite launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 1, 2017, rising into the skies above California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. See photos of NROL-79 and its liftoff here.

The United Launch Alliance rocket launched the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-79 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 1, 2017.

A new view of galaxy NGC 1055 captured by the Very Large Telescope’s FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument shows galactic structure twists that were likely caused by interactions with other galaxies.

An occultation of the star Aldebaran will occur on March 4, and it will be visible over a large portion of the United States. Also, find out why the Venus and Mercury go through phases.

The Gemini and Cancer constellations make great targets this month. Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are you’re evening planets, while Saturn makes its presence known in the pre-dawn hours.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch the NROL-79 satellite today from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:50 p.m. EST. You can watch the launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of ULA.

Columbia Hills/Gusev Crater, which NASA's now-dead Spirit rover studied intensively from 2004 through 2009, is one of three finalist landing sites for the agency's next Mars rover, a life-hunting machine scheduled to launch in 2020.

The latest film in the franchise hits theaters in May 2017.

Hot gas streaming out from the region around supermassive black holes can experience rapid and extreme changes in temperature, according to a new study.

A sun imager aboard the GOES-16 satellite captured its first vivid images, showing a "hole" in the sun's hot upper atmosphere, called the corona.

President Donald Trump signed into law two bills that aim to encourage women to pursue careers in science and technology.

Nearly 45 years after NASA astronauts last embarked on a lunar mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced his company's plans to send two private citizens on a flight around the moon in 2018. Read on to see what SpaceX's lunar adventure will entail.

The Space Launch System rocket’s Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter, Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage, Orion Stage Adapter are being tested on a 65-foot tall test stand at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Martian winds shaped the mountain that stands tall in the middle of Mars' vast Gale Crater, new observations from NASA's Curiosity rover suggest.

Humans have sent spacecraft to the moon, the red planet Mars and even distant interstellar space, but can we send a spaceship to the scorching sun?

NASA's mission to orbit the icy Jovian moon Europa recently entered a new phase of mission planning that is focused on creating preliminary designs for the instruments and spacecraft.