Новости за 21.11.2017

The slowdown in Earth's rotation could trigger more earthquakes next year, new research suggests.

An agreement to do engine testing at a NASA center is the latest sign that Stratolaunch is considering developing its own launch vehicle for its giant aircraft.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured an amazing view of a monstrous Jupiter storm that resembles the swirling pastel clouds of a Vincent van Gogh painting.

Before NASA's Cassini spacecraft plummeted into Saturn this year, it took this final photo of Rhea, the second-largest moon orbiting the ringed planet.

James E. Webb was an early NASA administrator who saw beyond the politics of the space race and established a firm foundation for the space agency based on science and exploration.

Beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is a vast region of icy objects called Kupier Belt Objects (KBOs), including dwarf planets Pluto, Eris, Maumea and Makemake — and possibly a true ninth planet.

An overview of NASA HQ, which oversees the space agency's many science, exploration and spaceflight activities.

The president of SpaceX said she expects the company would receive additional funding from the U.S. government to support the development of its large reusable launch system.

Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have released this gorgeous visualization of one of their weather models.

A new book by astrophysicist Caleb Scharf, "The Zoomable Universe," takes readers all the way from the size of the observable universe — as far as light can travel in 13.8 billion years — down to the shortest theoretical measurable length.

Fast-moving dust could theoretically knock microbes floating high up in a world's atmosphere out into space, potentially sending the bugs on a trip to another planet — perhaps even one orbiting a different star, according to a new study.

Virgin Orbit announced Nov. 16 that it has received its first launch contract for a LauncherOne mission from a Defense Department agency.

Melting ice affects sea level rise differently depending on where it happens, according to a new model NASA is using to study the changing climate.

Four outstanding women from NASA’s history got the Lego treatment in the new Women of NASA set.

Smithsonian Channel is producing a show that will tell the stories behind the incredible pieces of technology that made human spaceflight possible.

While kids slogged their way through the first days of school, NASA launched A Year in Education on Station (YES), a program that takes advantage of two educators flying on board the International Space Station.

The mysteriously cold vortex of air whirling above the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan may result from its atmosphere's unique chemistry, a new study finds.

The surface of Mars, with its dune flows, gullies and slope movements, is the result of sediment being transported downwards in the recent past as well as today.