Новости за 13.04.2016

Aldrin is a part of a new exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center called, appropriately enough, 'Destination: Mars.'

The congressionally mandated Space Launch Systems will be the biggest rocket ever made if all goes according to plan. NASA attempts to visualize the 'scale and power' of the rocket launching in this new animation released on April 13th, 2016.

Long before the first confirmed planetary finds in the 1990s, an observer in 1917 caught evidence of planetary debris around a new star, new research into an astronomical glass plate reveals.

We heart you too, Sun! Active Region 2529 has taken on a heart-shape over the past few days (seen here from April 11-13, 2016).

The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transport System (HERTS) concept aims to use an electric sail (E-Sail) to harness the solar wind's protons and electrons, which travel at breakneck speeds of 400 to 750 kilometers per second.

Laser-propelled probes designed to search for signs of life around nearby stars will also likely hunt for aliens on Saturn's moon Enceladus and other objects within Earth's own solar system.

NASA's last-remaining, flight-qualified space shuttle external tank was launched on a 40-day ocean voyage from New Orleans to Los Angeles 35 years after the first of the tanks was used to fuel the maiden flight of the iconic space transportation system.

Reliable, cheap machines in development for future human Mars missions have another, unexpected use: improving beer bubbles here on Earth.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has uncovered extensive evidence of water on the moon.

Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg helm the board for a new initiative, Breakthrough Starshot, whose technology could be used to someday reach Earth's neighboring star Alpha Centauri after just a 20-year journey.

Located within the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), the cluster is home to "nearly sixty large galaxies, and a similar number of smaller dwarf galaxies," according to the European Southern Observatory.

The Fornax Cluster inside the constellation Fornax hosts many galaxies and holds mysteries to be solved.

A huge, heart-shaped sunspot known as active region (AR) 2529 has rotated around to face Earth. AR 2529 is currently several times larger than our planet — big enough to be spotted by amateur astronomers here on Earth.

Missile and rocket technology from the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has propelled American spaceflight for decades, and from the beginning that technology's success rested on a corps of expert mathematicians.

NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission, which will test the unique attributes of a high-performance, nontoxic, "green" fuel on orbit, is being prepped for launch in 2017.

Earthlings may have left boot prints on the moon, but even nearby stars, such as the bright Alpha Centauri system, have long been out of reach.