Новости за 30.05.2017

The transits and conjunctions of the 7 planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are translated into music.

What was the first animal in space? The answer may have you buzzing.

While the U.S. prepares for the Great American Total Solar Eclipse coming on Aug. 21, National Geographic's "Genius" recounts how a solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Chuck Yeager was an American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier — the point where a speeding object (such as an airplane) passes the speed of sound.

Visual artist Lia Halloran's newest exhibit, "Your Body is a Space That Sees Us," is a tribute to female astronomers left out of history, and aims to connect the viewer with the act of science.

The art exhibit "Your Body is a Space That Sees Us" by visual artist Lia Halloran, makes use of cosmic images captured by women astronomers in the late 1800s.

Spectacular images captured by NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft show fluffy-looking white snow (or hail) clouds flying high, casting their comparably tiny shadows on the giant planet's swirling, multicolored cloud decks.

Detailed surveys of "butterfly craters" and other elongated impacts on Mars, Mercury and the moon reveal the features' similarities, providing insights into what's going on beneath the surface on these worlds.

SpaceX moved the launch date for the second Iridium Next mission ahead by four days thanks to new range availability at Vandenberg Air Force Base, mobile satellite service provider Iridium announced today.

The president's $4.1 trillion budget package for 2018 would ax a variety of medical, energy, and basic research programs, while boosting funding for defense and homeland security.

The discovery of a vast star-like disk of gas and dust surrounding planet OTS44 challenges the notion of what differentiates a planet from a star, and of how their origins differ.

A massive California landslide that covered a huge swath of a coastal highway in rubble was captured in satellite images.

Mars was capable of supporting life for much longer in the ancient past than researchers had thought, a new study suggests.

NASA officials are scheduled to make an announcement tomorrow (May 31) regarding the Solar Probe Plus mission that will fly directly into the sun's atmosphere.