Новости за 24.05.2017

The U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane will be built by Boeing, and it's called the Phantom Express.

Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry.

The Airlander 10, a massive blimp-like aircraft, successfully flew and landed during a reecent test of new improvements.

As weather continues to delay the first launch of its Electron rocket, Rocket Lab's chief executive said the company remains patient until conditions are right to attempt a flight.

The new design will give the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency the ability to launch within days. The new Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) is called Phantom Express.

NASA is having a fashion moment. Or, perhaps more accurately, fashion is having a NASA moment.

NASA has unveiled some cool new concept art for its next Red Planet robot, the Mars 2020 rover, and it looks awesome.

When a star roughly 20 to 30 times the mass of our Sun explodes it leaves behind a neutron star. Learn more about it and how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) will study them.

The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) “provide high-precision measurements of neutron stars” according the NASA”s Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s secondary mission is to test technology that will use pulsars as navigation beacons.

This large constellation contains the most stars with known planets. It is the 15th largest constellation overall.

There might be a new technique coming to study small ripples in space-time. An effect called “orphan memory” could help the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) search for a broader range of gravitational waves.

Whether you're looking for a new pair of eclipse glasses or you've already purchased some form of eye protection, here's what you need to know to avoid burning your eyes during the solar eclipse.

An enormous piece of glass-ceramic has been cast for the secondary mirror of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope, entering a year-long cooldown and heat-treatment period until it's ready to be ground and polished for use wi

When we think about the difficulties of colonizing another planet, the last thing we probably worry about about is sex. However, for our species to survive beyond Earth it’s a fundamental issue.

The XENON1T detector hasn't detected any dark matter particles yet. But it has carried out a 30-day science run, and project scientists are optimistic about the future.

The second American to orbit the Earth, Scott Carpenter, blasted off on May 24, 1962 and made three trips around the planet before he accidentally landed off-course. See archival NASA photos of the historic mission in this photo gallery.

A special episode of the Science Channel show "Space's Deepest Secrets" will probe the origins of mysterious radio bursts in the sky and other phenomena that beg celestial explanation, such as the repeated dimming of "Boyajian's star."

The Science Channel show takes a look at the mysteriously dimming star.

Five NASA Earth-science missions are now on the chopping block.

Two supermassive black holes are apparently on a collision course near the heart of a nearby galaxy, a new study reports.