Новости за 05.12.2017

The latest installment in James S.A. Corey's "Expanse" series is the beginning of the end for James Holden's crew, setting a course for the final books of the series.

The European Space Agency (ESA) released a video explaining how astronomers used the Gaia telescope to discover a large star cluster earlier this year.

With less than four months remaining in the competition, two of the remaining teams in the Google Lunar X Prize are seeking to raise tens of millions of dollars to complete their spacecraft.

The supermoon sets behind the south tower of the Twin Lights of Navesink Highlands, New Jersey in this photo taken by astrophotographer Steve Scanlon. He captured this view on Monday morning (Dec. 4), when the moon was at perigee.

A smarmy captain oversees a space crew filled with people wearing bizarre hairstyles and clothing. Yup, it's got to have something to do with "Star Trek."

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, has launched a "Mission to Mars" fashion line with Sprayground to help you dress for the Red Planet.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa may have plate tectonics, potentially making the ocean-harboring world more habitable than scientists had thought.

A new citizen science project examined the different types of bacteria living on the surfaces inside the International Space Station, revealing that the microbes from the orbiting lab are very similar to those found in homes on Earth.

Engineers have filed a patent for a spacesuit self-return system to ensure spacewalking astronauts are safe, even if none of their crewmates can rescue them.

SpaceX's next robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA has been pushed from Friday (Dec. 8) to next Tuesday (Dec. 12) at the earliest.

SpaceX's next robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA has been pushed from Friday (Dec. 8) to next Tuesday (Dec. 12) at the earliest.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will stay attached to the International Space Station through at least 2020, NASA announced yesterday (Dec. 4).

Judging by a pizza slowly floating by a camera on the International Space Station, it looks like somebody prefers extra pepperoni with their weightless pie.

Did the universe begin with the Big Bang, or has it been expanding and contracting infinitely? A new study uses black hole physics to argue for the latter.