Новости за 28.07.2017

55 Cancri e is a super-Earth exoplanet with a super-hot surface. Temperatures could be as high as 4,892 F (2,700 C).

Months of anticipation have finally culminated in the successful launch of three experienced new crewmembers up toward the International Space Station.

As Senate appropriators prepare to mark up a NASA spending bill, agency officials are both downplaying the effects of proposed cuts on its Earth science program while also hoping the Senate reverses them.

People have observed total solar eclipses since ancient times, but it wasn't until the 19th century that people figured out how to photograph them.

Mars 160 crewmember Paul Knightly is chronicling life and science on The Mars Society's Twin Desert-Arctic Analog simulation. Here's his second post from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, in the Canadian arctic.

Learn all about neutrinos — ghostly, chargeless particles that hardly ever interact with normal matter — in the 14th episode of the astrophysics-explainer video series "We Don't Planet."

A trio of new crewmembers will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (July 28), and you can watch the liftoff live.

On a midsummer night's eve, veteran meteorologist and Space.com skywatching columnist Joe Rao led a sold-out show at the Hayden Planetarium for the organization's monthly "Astronomy Live: Stars of Summer" program and talked about the Aug. 21 solar eclipse

Every summer, skywatchers all over the world look forward to observing the famed Perseid meteor shower, but they often overlook some of the lesser displays that peak during late July and early August.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a crew of three linked up with the International Space Station on Friday (July 28), doubling the orbiting lab's population and kicking off a five-month mission for its space traveling trio.

The crescent moon and Jupiter will put on a show about an hour after sunset tonight (July 28).

If you'd been riding aboard NASA's Juno probe when it zoomed over Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot earlier this month, this is what you would have seen.

Scientific discovery most often comes through incremental progress rather than epiphanies, and there’s no reason to suggest discovering alien intelligence will be different.

Titan's thick atmosphere contains large quantities of vinyl cyanide molecules, which could conceivably form cell-like membranes in the liquid-hydrocarbon seas that dot the frigid moon's surface, a new study reports.

Astronomers looking at how intergalactic gas and dust moves across great distances found that up to half of the matter surrounding us comes from galaxies far, far away.