Новости за 31.03.2017

The rigors of launch demand extreme testing for payloads. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was recently placed on a shake table to simulate vibrations it will endure. The telescope has an estimated “life-cycle cost of $8.835 billion dollars."

The Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft (MMS) has observed kinetic Alfven wave, a type of plasma wave. There were “unexpected complexities” with it according to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

SpaceX's first "flight-proven" Falcon 9 rocket first stage to be launched and recovered for a second time won't leave Florida again, on another spaceflight or otherwise. The rocket stage will be retired and put on display near its launch site.

With the new sci-fi flick "Ghost in the Shell" hitting theaters this week, Scientific American asks artificial intelligence experts which movies, if any, have gotten AI right.

Jupiter will shine bright and appear large on April 7 as it reaches opposition. The moon will be nearly in its New moon phases during the peak of the Lyrid meteor showers making skywatching conditions optimal.

NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson took a spacewalk on March 24. Whitson broke the record for cumulative spacewalk time by a woman, and Kimbrough accidentally lost a meteoroid shield that prompted some improvisational craftsmanship.

See Saturn and Venus in the early morning hours. Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are the evening planets. The Ursa Major constellation is a great target this month. On April 22, the Lyrid Meteor Shower will peak.

Scientists and stargazers are gearing up for what's billed as one of the biggest astronomy expos in the world.

Bill Nye, science celebrity and CEO of the Planetary Society, announced today that he will serve as one of three honorary co-chairs for the April 22 March for Science in Washington, D.C.

A glittering new image of a supernova remnant — the remains of an exploded star — taken by the Hubble Space Telescope may have also captured a star that survived the detonation.

A bright-green comet will make its closest approach to Earth tonight (March 31 to April 1). Though some people are calling it the "April Fools' comet," this is no joke. You can watch the comet's close approach in a live webcast from Slooh.

Images captured by an astronaut on the ISS reveal thunderstorm features that have eluded more-conventional examinations.

The search for planets beyond Earth's solar system has revealed countless surprises, including the existence of thousands of strange and unexpected worlds unimaginable only a few decades ago.

In the sci-fi movie "Life," a sample of Martian dirt is brought to the International Space Station for study. In the real world, that’s a highly unlikely scenario.

Our understanding of the universe is built upon hundreds of experiments spanning centuries, all designed and implemented by thousands of creative, hardworking scientists. The cleverest of those used ingenuity to uncover the fundamentals of the universe.

SpaceX launched a communications satellite into Earth orbit Thursday (March 30), and the mission could help pave humanity's way to Mars.

There's more than one way to reuse a rocket. A day after the first re-flight of a flown rocket stage, the Swiss watchmaker Werenbach launched a crowdfunded project to land timepieces made out of Soyuz rocket parts on space enthusiasts' wrists.