Новости за 01.06.2016

The blade from a dagger that was found on the sarcophagus of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun has been found to be made from meteorites.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg wants to reach Alpha Centauri, but first he will settle for a call with astronauts on the International Space Station today (June 1) which NASA will stream in real-time using Facebook Live.

A May 31 static fire test of the new first stage of Orbital ATK's Antares launch vehicle should clear the way for that rocket to return to flight in early July.

This Friday, June 3, Saturn reaches opposition to the sun. Directly opposite the sun in the sky, Saturn rises as the sun sets and sets as the sun rises, remaining visible all night.

Lockheed Martin has launched its campaign to establish a "Mars Base Camp" — a vision for sending humans to Mars by 2028.

If the hypothetical Planet Nine does indeed exist, the sun probably ripped the world away from another star long ago, a new study suggests.

On Friday (May 27), NASA's Juno probe crossed a gravitational boundary between Jupiter and the sun, and the gas giant began pulling the spacecraft in ahead of a planned July 4 arrival.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling spacecraft is now undergoing final launch preparations at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after arriving at the site on May 20.

Three space station astronauts chatted live today (June 1) with Facebook's founder about experiments and fun in space, the things that training can't prepare you for, and the true astronaut ice cream.

The view on the new museum display is a busy one: It includes astronaut Twitter feeds, tracking details for the International Space Station (ISS) and videos describing NASA's space program technology.

The asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources recently raised more than $20 million in venture funding, but also had to shut down a crowdfunded space telescope due to a lack of financial interest.

Comets may often experience repeated cycles of destruction and reformation, spinning fast enough to break up, with their separate pieces later slowly coming back together over time, a new study finds.

Strange geometric shapes miles wide seen on Pluto's icy surface likely formed because of a churning sheet of frozen nitrogen more than a half-mile thick, reinforcing the idea that Pluto is not a cold and dead, but surprisingly geologically active.