Новости за 30.06.2017

NASA is salvaging technology from a scrapped asteroid mission to help build a space station orbiting the moon.

On Thursday (June 29), a guest on Alex Jones' radio show named Robert David Steele claimed that Mars is inhabited — by people sent to the Red Planet against their will.

A new video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains the art of visualizing astronomical data and concepts, like what the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like.

Today is Asteroid Day: From online broadcasts and lectures to hands-on activities, colleges, museums and observatories all over the globe are striving to raise awareness about the wonders and potential dangers of asteroids.

Here's how to see three naked-eye planets visible in July's night sky.

We're celebrating Asteroid Day by discussing films that show asteroids or comets threatening Earth, from "Armageddon" to "The Good Dinosaur."

Now is a great time to see the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, in the night sky.

Learn all about the parsec, one of the most commonly used distance measurements in astronomy, in the 10th episode of the astrophysics-video series "We Don't Planet."

Cassini arrived in orbit around the ringed planet on June 30, 2004, after a nearly seven-year journey through deep space.

When a small asteroid fell to Earth over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, the speeding space rock exploded midair and created a shock wave powerful enough to damage thousands of buildings and injure more than 1,200 people.

The Air Force selected United Launch Alliance as the launch provider for an experimental blast detection satellite, beating out SpaceX, the service announced June 29.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order June 30 re-establishing the National Space Council.

In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll cover how your mobile device can improve your star-party experience, including which apps to download, how best to configure your devices and apps, and some star party etiquette.

SpaceX test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket yesterday (June 29), helping pave the way for a planned launch this weekend.

As House appropriators approved a spending bill that rolled back some of the proposed cuts in the administration's 2018 budget request for NASA, Senate colleagues raised similar concerns about cuts to agency programs.

A UK-based deep-sea and space training center is being pursued and will make use of state-of-the-art facilities to reduce risk, improve performance and aid exploration in extreme environments.