Новости за 26.10.2017

Spectacular footage from a NASA rocket engine test shows a larger than life cloud of smoke pouring across a field as spectators look on.

Pope Francis made a phone call to the International Space Station today (Oct. 26) to ask its six occupants deep questions about humanity's place in the universe.

Countless galaxies of all colors, shapes and sizes fill this deep-space view of the Fornax Cluster, one of the closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.

Two advice-filled notes Albert Einstein wrote to a bellboy in Japan 95 years ago, including one that advocated for "a calm and modest life," fetched more than $1.5 million at an auction on Tuesday (Oct. 24).

Artificial satellites from Earth have only populated space since 1957, but there are now hundreds of thousands of objects from our planet in orbit.

The changes spaceflight induces in astronauts go deeper than muscle and bone, all the way into their DNA.

The U.S. Air Force has provided SpaceX with an additional $40.7 million to support continued development of the company's Raptor engine.

On Oct. 25, astronauts onboard the International Space Station plan to link NovaWurks' spacecraft building blocks in the first on-orbit test of a radically new approach to satellite design and manufacturing.

The discovery of water plumes on Enceladus led to the revelation that this tiny ice ball could host a habitable environment under its surface. But scientists almost didn't find the plumes at all.

It's time to celebrate the moon's importance in astronomy! This Saturday (Oct. 28), institutions worldwide will take part in International Observe the Moon Night, when they will discuss the importance of the moon in everything from eclipses to tides to as

The full moon happens once a month. Find out when.

China's Tiangong-1 space lab is headed for an uncontrolled and destructive nose-dive into Earth's atmosphere early next year. But it's unclear exactly when and where the spacecraft will come down.

Forced to find nearly $30 million in cost savings, NASA's astrophysics program has trimmed budget reserves on one mission approaching launch and delayed the schedule of another.

Everything you need to know about NASA's Big Bang-probing space telescope.

There's a toxic ice cloud lurking over Saturn's moon Titan.