Новости за 08.07.2016

Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory contributed to the study of the heavens before the center's closure in 2005. Space.com took a tour of the observatory this year.

Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory contributed to the study of the heavens before the center's closure in 2005. Space.com took a tour of the observatory this year.

When life originates on a planet, whether Earth or a distant world, the newborn life-forms may have to overcome incredible odds to come into existence — and a new equation lays out exactly how overwhelming those odds may be.

If the weather is clear on Friday evening, check out the west-southwest sky around mid-twilight — about an hour after sunset — to see the moon and Jupiter in an eye-catching tableau.

Bright blue-white noctilucent clouds danced over the town of Nykøbing Mors in Denmark just before dawn on July 1.

A detailed image of the core of the famous Crab Nebula, captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the "beating heart" that, with every pulse, breathes life into the expanding cloud of gas and debris surrounding it.

A NASA space shuttle commander who died in a 2012 water sports accident is now being re-membered with the christening of a space station-bound commercial cargo vehicle, the company behind the spacecraft, Orbital ATK announced.

Juno powered up five of its nine science instruments Wednesday (July 6), two days after entering Jupiter orbit, and plans to turn on the other four before the end of the month, NASA officials said.