Новости за 30.08.2017

Physical systems that are out of equilibrium may naturally produce self-replicating chemical reactions, one of the necessary steps in the origin of life.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO believes the only way to keep pace with artificial intelligence is to upgrade human intelligence.

InSight will do a deep dive into the Martian underground, putting two instruments onto the surface that will ferry information back from the depths.

A new quantum state has been demonstrated in a pressure exposed to crushingly high pressures, which could pave the way for new forms of electronics.

NASA's Mars probe is expected to study the atmosphere of the Red Planet in amazing new detail.

In "People of Earth," a show now in its second season on TBS, a reporter investigates a support group for alien abductees, known as "experiencers".

NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston will remain closed through Labor Day as a result of Tropical Storm Harvey, agency officials said.

A crew of six mock astronauts has completed a two-week stay at a simulated moon base, where the crew conducted more than 20 spaceflight experiments.

Sierra Nevada Corporation's uncrewed space plane, Dream Chaser, completed a successful captive carry test on Aug. 30, 2017.

In honor of H.G. Wells' 150th birthday, Stephen Baxter wrote "The Massacre of Mankind" (2017, Crown), an officially recognized sequel to Wells' "War of the Worlds."

The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser space plane, which is scheduled to ferry cargo to the International Space Station by 2020, completed a critical test flight today.

Missiles fired from a ship off the coast of Hawaii intercepted an airborne target in a successful ballistic-missile defense test Tuesday (Aug. 29), U.S. military officials said.

Weather was the main driver, but climate change was likely a factor.

On Oct. 14, 2014 the Sun blew off a coronal mass ejection (CME) and was detected by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and other NASA/ESA probes.

A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy.

NASA satellites continue to track the path of Tropical Storm Harvey, which made landfall in Louisiana this morning (Aug. 30).

Now in its second season, the 30-minute TBS show "People of Earth" has proved that it's more than a quirky comedy built on an absurd premise: a reporter investigating a support group for alien abductees (though they prefer the term "experiencers").

Researchers have used brain-like "neural networks" to analyze key distortions in space-time 10 million times faster than conventional methods can do so.

After decades of hunting, astronomers have tracked down the origin of a nova first recorded by Korean royal astrologers nearly 600 years ago.