Новости за 23.06.2016

On Mother's Day weekend, a surprise geomagnetic storm got astrophotographer Manoj Kesavan his first ever aurora photo. He captured the image on May 8, 2016 from Lake McGregor on South Island, New Zealand.

A new contest from NASA and the Methuselah Foundation's New Organ Alliance calls for scientists to grow human organ tissue in the lab — to serve as raw materials in studying the harmful environmental effects of space, like radiation.

The tiny moon Enceladus is one of the most promising potential sites for hosting life in the solar system.

A collision may have spun Saturn's fourth moon around 180 degrees.

Space.com talked with actor Brent Spiner — best known as Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" — about the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek," and his (unauthorized) nickname for Stephen Hawking.

Despite its incredible distance from the sun, Pluto may still hide a liquid ocean beneath its surface. Surface features suggest the dwarf planet did not shrink as would be expected if the ocean had frozen entirely.

While we know that yellow dwarf stars like our sun are capable of supporting life, there's another star type that is a prime hunting ground for potentially habitable exoplanets.

Scientists recently discovered a remarkable ocean sound unlike any other.

A large wave's interaction with the seafloor in the Carribean Sea is so loud that it can be "'heard' from space in the form of oscillations of the Earth's gravity field," according to the University of Liverpool.

An incredible new sequence shows Earth, Mars and the location of Pluto in images from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO)-A spacecraft, with the Milky Way as a vivid background.

A new trailer for a fan-made "Star Trek" film was released this week, despite an ongoing lawsuit between the filmmakers, and CBS and Paramount Pictures. The trailer shows Klingon warships flying through a planetary ring system.