Новости за 24.07.2017

A cargo container that was built to launch on NASA's space shuttles is being repurposed as a prototype for a deep space habitat.

There probably aren't nearly as many giant planets zooming alone through the Milky Way galaxy as scientists had thought, a new study reports.

Ancient volcanic deposits on the moon reveal new evidence about the lunar interior, suggesting it contains substantial amounts of water.

Both NASA and the two companies developing commercial crew vehicles say those efforts remain on schedule for test flights that are in some cases less than a year away.

NASA announced July 21 that the launch of a communications satellite previously scheduled for early August will be postponed to replace an antenna damaged during launch preparations.

The New Horizons spacecraft's next flyby target blocked the light of an unnamed star on July 17, and mission scientists got a great look at the brief event.

The German Aerospace Center, Germany's space agency, will fly two experiments on a suborbital flight by Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle later this year as part of an effort to diversify its microgravity research efforts.

Asteroids that follow Mars in its orbit could be ancient pieces of the planet itself, a new study shows.

A new NASA app will allow folks across the United States to become citizen scientists and collect data for an interactive map.

Aspiring astronauts can now pretend to float on the International Space Station, thanks to Google. The company worked with astronauts on the orbiting complex to provide a Google Street View of the space station.

After 16 months of testing technologies that can detect the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft shut down on Tuesday (July 18).

A striking panorama by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows a crater-rim notch that may have been carved by liquid water long ago.

Scientists aren't yet certain that electrons and their relatives are violating the Standard Model of particle physics, but the evidence is mounting.

On July 19, 2013, the Cassini-Huygens mission took a composite image of Saturn's rings with Venus, Mars, Earth and the moon in the background — and people on Earth waved at the distant camera.

A boom in nanosatellites could revolutionize space science and industry, but also dramatically increase the hazards of space junk