Новости за 14.12.2015

China's Central Bank has released bills and coins that celebrate the country's spaceflight history. The design of the new 10-yuan coin and 100-yuan banknote depicts crewed and robotic spacecraft that span four and a half decades of Chinese launches.

Force fields are real, Earth has one, and here's how it works.

The space-funding company Uwingu is running a promotion that allows customers to create holiday versions of the certificates they receive when they purchase a name for a Mars crater.

New images from the EPIC camera capture the entire face of the Earth in one snapshot, and provide amazing information about changes on the planet.

Forty three years after he took the last step off the lunar surface, Gene Cernan now has a launch date in movie theaters. The Apollo 17 commander recounts his story in his own words in "The Last Man on the Moon," set to open on U.S. screens in February 20

The new space-based adventure series "The Expanse" debuts on Syfy tonight, and it's packed with high-flying action, interplanetary politics and intriguing locations.

Are real lightsabers possible?

A small, cool star is emitting flares 10,000 times brighter than those ejected by the sun, a find that could be bad news for those hoping to find the galaxy filled with life.

'The Expanse' is a new science-fiction series on Syfy network. See images from the new SyFy Channel show here.

A TV miniseries based on Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classic "Childhood's End," debuts tonight (Dec. 14) on the Syfy network.

Photos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the changing faces of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, over the course of a full day, which lasts 6.4 Earth days on both faraway worlds.