Новости за 24.05.2016

Galileo 13 and 14 were launched in the early morning hours from French Guiana on May 24, 2016. The satellite constellation will consist of 24 satellites when they are all launched.

A faint, young galaxy from the infancy of the universe may help solve the mysteries behind the end of the universe's dark ages.

Radiation from beyond the solar system may destroy any organic fossils lying on the surface of Mars or Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

On May 16, the International Space Station launched the first miniature satellite, called a cubesat, designed and built by grade-schoolers.

The first crewed mission to Mars could be a scouting mission. Lockheed Martin's concept is calling for 'astronaut-scientists' to study the Red Planet from orbit for future landing sites, to remotely operate rovers...

Astrophotographer Manish Mamtani took this image of the Milky Way in April 2016 from Arches National Park in Utah.

These behemoths — which lie at the hearts of most if not all galaxies, and can contain billions of times more mass than the sun — probably form after the collapse of gigantic gas clouds, rather than the death of individual stars, a new study suggests.

A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on May 24 successfully placed two European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites into medium-Earth orbit — the 13th and 14th in a series of 26 Galileo spacecraft, with more to come.

Strange plumes have been spotted high in the Martian atmosphere that have, so far, defied explanation. Now scientists think space weather is to blame.

The mission is still sending back data and fueling new discoveries — for a few more months, until it plunges into the ringed planet.

The European Space Agency coordinates space activities among 20 member states.