Новости за 15.03.2017

From March 15 through March 20, citizen scientists can help decide which regions of Jupiter's cloud tops the JunoCam spacecraft may image during its next flyby of the giant planet.

President Donald Trump has a chance to make a historic mark on NASA science and the future of space exploration in general, experts say.

The ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus rises nearly to the surface in some places, a new study suggests.

Spanish high-altitude balloon specialist Zero 2 Infinity completed its first test flight of Bloostar, a balloon-assisted small-satellite launcher four years in development.

Zero 2 Infinity's Bloostar rocket blasted off from a stratospheric balloon on March 13, 2017. The company is testing the technology to deliver a low-cost alternative for small satellite launches.

NASA's requirements for becoming an astronaut are stringent, but not overly daunting.

Venus' current crescent phase, which can be glimpsed even through binoculars, is one of the leading celestial attractions for astronomy neophytes. Check out this celestial sight on March 23, 24 and 25, when Earth and Venus are on the same side of the sun.

The spaceflight company Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, plans to launch its first crewed flight to suborbital space soon.

The Martian marine Bobbie Draper made a big splash with her arrival in "The Expanse" Season 2. Now, we'll be seeing a lot more of the character as her storyline kicks into gear.

Despite uncertainty about potential policy changes, NASA is pressing ahead with plans for a cislunar "gateway" outpost for future human missions, with decisions about how to develop it expected in the coming months.

Astronomers have peered deep into the perplexing structure of the binary star system LL Pegasi, revealing new details about its intricate spiral rings and how they formed.

SpaceX plans to launch a commercial communications satellite early Thursday morning (March 16), and you can watch the liftoff live.

The Cassini spacecraft snagged a final close-up view of Saturn's smallest major moon, Mimas, as it nears the end of its exploration mission at the ringed planet.

Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers ‘peered way back in time’ to study 10 billion year old disc galaxies according to the European Southern Observatory. They found that dark matter was not concentrated around those galaxies.

Although the invisible substance known as dark matter dominates galaxies nowadays, it was apparently only a minor ingredient of galaxies in the early universe, a new study finds.

A geomagnetic storm injected electrons into the radiation belts in June 2015. The Magnetic Electron and Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes gave scientists a new perspective on the belt’s reaction.