Новости за 01.08.2016

Reid Wiseman is back on the surface of the Earth. As a NASA astronaut Wiseman spent 165 days on the International Space Station. His latest landfall though, was not from orbit, but from under the ocean.

Find out where to find the planets' Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune in the night sky. Dwarf planets' Pluto and Ceres are also visible with the aid of telescopes. The Perseid Meteor shower peaks on August 12th.

The new National Geographic Channel series combines 'feature-film-quality scripted drama' of the first human mission to the Red Planet along with interviews with the pioneers who are leading the effort today. Premieres in November 2016.

The tick-tock of very accurate cosmic clocks is helping scientists search for ripples in the fabric of space-time, known as gravitational waves. These so-called Pulsar Timing Arrays will look for waves from the merging of very massive black holes.

Comets are indeed pristine remnants left over from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago, a new study suggests. The finding could help scientists better understand how the solar system took shape and evolved, researchers said.

The Perseids are here: The dazzling meteor shower's peak of activity is Aug. 12, but you can already see its streaks of light peppering the sky.

NASA's new asteroid-sampling mission will do a lot of interesting things, but helping prepare humanity for Earth's imminent destruction is not among them.

A power failure affecting an encrypted command-and-control system on board the U.S. Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight-19 spacecraft is to blame for the loss of the two-year-old weather satellite, the Air Force announced July 25.

To date, there has been only one mission to Neptune, the Voyager 2 flyby of 1989. This leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the other blue planet.

NASA estimates that SpaceX is spending on the order of $300 million on its Red Dragon Mars lander mission, a down payment on the company’s long-term ambitions for human Mars missions.

Italian Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi took the image on July 20, 2016, 47 years after man first landed on the moon from Rome, Italy.

Jack White's Third Man Records launched a turntable beneath a balloon last month, becoming the first entity to play a record high up in Earth's atmosphere.

A new "lunar gothic" mystery takes a look at the seedy side of moon colonization, complete with a hard-hitting detective, a sinister aerospace billionaire and hard science, with a side of Frankenstein's monster.

NASA has ordered a second crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from SpaceX, which will provide the orbital service using its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule.

Does sci-fi show "Doctor Who" portray male and female scientists as equally competent?

Learn where to spot Jupiter, Saturn and Mars this month. The constellation's of Lyra, Cygnus and more have a bevy of targets to view. Also, the Perseid Meteor shower peaks on August 12.