Новости за 07.06.2016

Watch as fiery solar material crashes back to the surface in this high-res video of the June 7, 2011 eruption. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this explosive event.

Mars One — the private venture that formed to send people on a one-way trip to the Red Planet — is getting ready to whittle down its astronaut hopefuls from 100 people to just 40.

An early galaxy has been transformed into an almost perfect circle, thanks to the twisting and bending of light by gravity.

Technicians have installed the science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will study some of the most distant objects in the universe and scan the atmospheres of alien planets for signs of life, among other tasks.

A European space mission has achieved the most perfect free fall ever observed for a human-created object, demonstrating the technology needed to build a future observatory that will hunt for gravitational waves far from Earth, scientists said.

New satellite photos show the former Tropical Storm Colin surging across Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean this morning (June 7).

The glittering night skies above the Grand Canyon will soon gain extra protection from encroaching light — the national park has been designated a provisional International Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA).

Yesterday (June 6), NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka became the first humans to enter an expandable room in space.

Former NASA astronaut James Halsell Jr. has been charged with murder following a car crash Monday (June 6) that killed two girls, according to media reports.

For the first time in almost two years, the sun is completely free of sunspots. What's going on?

The NASA astronaut will be traveling to the International Space Station on the next Soyuz flight as flight engineer for Expedition 48/49. She talks to Space.com's Sarah Lewin from Star City, Russia, where she is training for her mission.

You can make out cloud bands on Saturn and have a great view of its rings with a telescope. Jupiter moons' Europa, io, Ganymede and Callisto are visible with binoculars. Comet PanSTARRS (C/2013 X1) is visible as well.

SpaceX's latest landed booster survived its ocean journey without toppling over and has now joined three companions in the company's reusable-rocket repository.