Новости за 19.07.2017

Here's a list of panel discussions and events at San Diego Comic-Con (which starts July 20) that we think space fans will enjoy.

Instead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years.

Learn how stars form, how stars and constellations are named, what happens when stars like our sun evolve, and ultimately, die.

One of the dragon constellation's stars used to be the North Star

The world's first laser weapon — one that can "kill" threatening, airborne drones — is ready for action, according to news sources.

A photo of Saturn's moon Enceladus looks poised for liftoff as jets fly from its southern hemisphere.

A common bacteria is furthering evidence that evolution is not entirely a blind process, subject to random changes in the genes, but that environmental stressors can also play a role.

Even though both look like tinted shades, eclipse viewers are very different from ordinary sunglasses, because they filter out far more light.

A new addition to the European Southern Observatory's network lets scientists capture a nearly complete view of the night sky.

The government of Luxembourg has passed a bill giving companies the rights to space resources they extract from asteroids or other celestial bodies.

How much of the science of "Salvation" is actually true? Space.com talked with Phil Plait, who writes the popular space blog "Bad Astronomy" and is also a science adviser for the show.

The moon will pass directly between the sun and the Earth on Monday, Aug. 21, causing a total solar eclipse. If you want to see it happen, learn how to build a simple eclipse viewer out of a shoe box.

The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said his center is pressing ahead with work on current and proposed missions to Mars and Europa despite ongoing debates on Capitol Hill about funding some of those missions and the impact they could have.

The Red Dots Campaign, in which astronomers scan the night sky to discover planets around some of the nearest stars to Earth, has recently begun focusing in on one of the sun's closest cousins, Barnard's Star.

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky will join the most brilliant planet in the dawn sky this week — and the duo will rendezvous with the moon on Thursday morning (July 20).

The second half of the ambitious, months-long Mars 160 simulation mission is now underway. Six crewmembers have arrived at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS), an outpost in the Canadian Arctic that's run by the nonprofit Mars Society.

The potentially Earth-like planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system may not be so conducive to life after all, two new studies report.

Elon Musk may be focused primarily on Mars, but he'd also like to see a human outpost on a world much closer to home.