Новости за 10.05.2017

If NASA and its partner agencies are serious about putting boots on Mars in the near future, they should pull the plug on the International Space Station (ISS) at the earliest opportunity, Buzz Aldrin said.

Do you have the right stuff? Becoming an astronaut doesn't just happen overnight. It takes many years of education and experience to meet the basic qualifications.

With the nights getting warmer, skywatchers will have a fine show tonight (May 10) from the May full moon, known as the Full Flower or Milk Moon.

A communications satellite built for a Bulgarian operator will be the second payload to launch on a previously-flown Falcon 9, that operator announced May 5.

It's time to take car design into warp drive. A car insurance company has imagined sexy futuristic cars based on the sleek designs of ships found in "Star Trek."

A group of astronauts might spend a year in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s as part of NASA's plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, agency officials said at The Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C.

Solar astronomers have uncovered the magnetic secrets behind one of the sun's most mysterious eruptions: a coronal mass ejection that seems to come from nowhere.

Some of the first spacecraft that humanity sends to other solar systems may carry microscopic ambassadors from Earth.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently captured imagery of Earth from the International Space Station. Pesquet told ESA that the video “highlights how much of our planet is desert, water and covered in clouds!”

Long-duration spaceflight reduces astronauts' exercise capacity by 30 to 50 percent, a recent study suggests.

Space.com talked with author Kim Stanley Robinson about how he developed his vision of a drowned New York, his thoughts on climate change and what role fiction has to play in determining what humans do next.

Imagery of the nebula from the Very Large Array, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the XMM-Newton Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray are showcased. The supernova remnant is 6,500 light-years from Earth.

Observations of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io show waves of lava in the massive molten lake Loki Patera.

A new study of Io’s lava lake Loki Patera suggests that overturning lava explains the temperature changes observed by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona.