Новости за 19.12.2017

Millions of people watched as Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon.

See photos of the astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts living and working aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 54.

The solar system's first-observed interstellar emissary hints at undiscovered populations of exoplanets and violent origins.

The Defense Department had a secret program to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects – and former military participants in the program say they had a stunning encounter with one back in 2004.

The first Indian-born woman in space died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry.

An airplane flies in front of December's full "supermoon" in this photo taken by Steve Schroff in Kent, Ohio.

They won't be home for Christmas, no fireworks on the Fourth of July: See how astronauts celebrate holidays in space.

Sorry, Santa; these space travelers won't be home for Christmas.

Virgin Galactic will carry out a dedicated research flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane for the Italian space agency ASI, with an Italian payload specialist on board, under an agreement announced Dec. 18.

A new form of liquid droplet, formed out of potassium "super-atoms," demonstrates strange and powerful quantum effects.

Featuring the bright, red supergiant star Antares, the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of the most vibrant and colorful nebulas in space and the closest star-forming region to the solar system.

The comet-like alien world GJ 436b orbits over its host star's poles, likely as the result of gravitational interactions with an undiscovered sibling planet, a new study suggests.

Although pulsars regularly blast out deadly gamma rays and X-rays, alien planets in orbit around them could theoretically be habitable by life, a new study finds.

After carrying out a successful test flight of a new version of its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft, a Blue Origin executive said Dec. 18 that the company was now about a year away from starting to fly people.

You would think that electrons would be easy enough to describe — but a quantum-mechanical property called "spin" makes that task much less straightforward.