Новости за 03.03.2017

One of the sky's brightest stars will vanish behind the moon as seen from most of the contiguous U.S. and Central America on Saturday night.

“Photoacoustic coupling" may be behind strange sounds accompanying or even preceding a bright meteor soaring through Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists reproduced sounds based on the measured brightness of a fireball that was observed in Dec. 2014.

Venus is about to shift from an "evening star" to a "morning star" in Earth's sky. Here's how to keep tabs on the dazzling planet.

Science writer Maia Weinstock, the creator of the recently announced Women of NASA Lego set, talked with Space.com.

The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flare (GRIPS) mission was lofted into the stratosphere by high-altitude balloon in Jan. 2016. After 12 days of collecting data, it parachuted back down to the frozen tundra of Antarctica.

Close call! NASA's Mars-orbiting spacecraft shifted course this week to avoid a future collision with Mars' dark moon Phobos.

Images of Jupiter captured by NASA's Juno probe look like great works of art when processed by citizen scientists. New additions show the cloud tops of Jupiter in cotton-candy colors, and swirls that resemble the sky in Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night."

After 11 days of riding Antarctic air currents, BLAST descended and hit a snag.

A new video shows a space station spacewalk from the astrounaut's perspective.

A lot will have to go right for SpaceX to meet its ambitious goal of launching two people on a mission around the moon before the end of 2018, experts say.

If you've ever wanted to get your hands on the codes that run the Mars rover Curiosity, New Horizons Pluto probe or other NASA spacecraft, here's your (latest) chance.

The faint sounds associated with some bright fireballs are probably created when pulses of bright light from the meteors heat up certain objects on the ground below, a new study reports.

NASA has quietly signed a contract with Boeing for up to five additional Soyuz seats to provide for both additional U.S. crewmembers on the International Space Station and margin for commercial crew delays.

An astrobiologist's perspective on how humans are changing Earth today.

A new documentary aims to celebrate what the filmmakers call an underappreciated series in an iconic franchise.

How hot are Earth's scorching insides? A sweltering 2,570 degrees Fahrenheit (1,410 degrees Celsius), a new study finds.