Новости за 06.04.2017

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was laid to rest on April 6, four months after he died at the age of 95. The late astronaut, Marine Colonel and Senator was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

For the first time, researchers have detected an atmosphere around a planet just a little bit larger than Earth outside the solar system.

John Glenn, who was America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia today (April 6) and you can follow the service honoring the space pioneer, courtesy of NASA.

SpaceX saw significant cost savings by reusing a Falcon 9 first stage in a launch last week, a key factor for the economic viability of reusable launch vehicles.

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher took this image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula earlier this year from Guelph, Ontario.

The frigid region near Mars' south pole bears a striking resemblance to the skin of a finely scaled lizard in a new photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

During the Space Foundation's luncheon honoring Piers Sellers, speakers lauded the former astronaut for his tireless work to draw attention to Earth's changing climate and to seek technological solutions to limit mankind's impact on the planet.

Students will send 57 cameras up by weather balloon to monitor the 2017 total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. The near-space views will be livestreamed from coast to coast in a collaboration with NASA.

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to capture new imagery of Jupiter on April 3, 2017. The gas giant will be at opposition with Earth on April 7.

Hubble snapped the photo on Monday (April 3), just four days before Jupiter comes into "opposition," forming a straight line with Earth and the sun (with Earth in the middle).

A new video gives spectacular up-close looks at last week's historic landing of a used SpaceX rocket on a ship at sea.

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough connected the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) to the Space Station Harmony module.

Residents of the quiet town of Salisbury, in the south of England, had no clue until last week that their neighbor, a 38-year-old oil trader named Richard Browning, is a real-life Iron Man in the making.

In this wonky, non-Euclidean universe, the floor can fall away from your feet as you walk forward and distances aren't what they seem.

Astronomers studying the planet GJ 1132b using the 2.2 meter MPG/ESO in Chile have detected atmosphere.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos said he sells $1 billion in Amazon.com stocks a year to fund his private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, but he hopes the venture will stand on its own.