Новости за 13.12.2017

Are huge balls of charged gas launched from the sun steering these marine animals off course?

Life on Mars may have looked a lot like Tonga.

There will be a market for humanity's expansion beyond Earth orbit, industry experts said — but none of them can predict what form that market will take.

The Ursid meteor shower will peak in the early morning on Dec. 22, 2017, but it won’t be a very spectacular shooting-star show.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy are collaborating on the next generation of nuclear generators, with a focus on crewed missions to Mars.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13. This guide tells you the best times and places to see these shooting stars (no equipment necessary).

Here's a guide to the major astronomical events of the next year, as well as space launches and milestones for spacecrafts already in travel.

In this fisheye view, an Ariane 5 rocket rocket blasts off from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Tuesday (Dec. 12). The rocket launched four Galileo navigation satellites for Europe's GPS network.

A seasonally appropriate blizzard of stars fills this Hubble view of a cluster located 41,000 light-years from Earth. The image captures 150,000 glittering stars.

Astronomers shouldn't throw around terms such as "Earth-like planet" and "habitable world" too freely, one researcher warns.

If it's clear outside on Wednesday night (Dec. 13) and Thursday morning (Dec. 14) before dawn, be sure to go outdoors. One of the year's top meteor showers, the Geminids, will peak, with rates as high as one or two meteors per minute at around 10 p.m.

Three space travelers will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) tonight after a six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Space.com's editors present a list of the astrophysics and astronomy books worth a read-through.

Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

The small-rocket startup Rocket Lab will attempt to launch its first customer payloads into orbit from its private launch facility in New Zealand.

Can objects be manipulated instantaneously from a distance?

Have you ever looked up at the night sky, scratching your head and wondering what planets and stars you're seeing? Or have you ever wanted to wish upon a shooting star, but don't know where to find one?

America's first woman in space will become only the second astronaut to be honored on a United States postage stamp. Sally Ride, who made history launching on board space shuttle Challenger in 1983, will be depicted on a 2018 U.S. Postal Service stamp.

Blue Origin took its new spaceship out for its first spin yesterday (Dec. 12), and you can watch the test flight's highlights in a dramatic new video.

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin performed the first successful test flight of its next-gen New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Dec. 12, 2017. Check out photos from the mission here.

Star creation is messy and magnificent, and a new image from a powerful telescope camera reveals a cosmic hotbed of interstellar formations dazzling in vivid colors within the constellation Sagittarius.