Новости за 06.07.2016

Two new astronauts and a cosmonaut will lift off toward the International Space Station tonight (July 6), beginning a two-day journey — and you can watch it live here on Space.com.

Nebulas come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and configurations, from almost-perfect spheres and shells to dazzlingly complex helices to tangled wrecks. But where exactly do they come from? And, perhaps more importantly, where are they going?

Three new crewmembers launched toward the International Space Station in an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft today (July 6), beginning a two-day journey to the orbiting lab.

When Kate Rubins was born in October 1978, only one woman had flown into space. Now, 38 years later, Rubins is on the verge of becoming the 60th woman to leave Earth for orbit. Rubins, a microbiologist, will spend four months on board the space station.

Three space travelers will begin an extended two-day journey to the International Space Station tonight (June 6).

A "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks on Dec. 31 at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which corresponds to 6:59:59 p.m. EST. The goal is to keep two different timescales in sync with each other.

The car-size Curiosity rover put itself into a minimal-activity safe mode on Saturday (July 2), for reasons that engineers are still trying to tease out.

Before it died, Japan's Hitomi satellite revealed surprising insights about how black holes stir up gas inside enormous collections of galaxies.

Technicians installed the last of the 4,450 panels that make up the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope's (FAST) giant dish on Sunday (July 3), China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.