Новости за 17.08.2016

The high-resolution camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has released a huge archive of Mars photographs, revealing Mars' varied global geology.

NASA's Multigenerational Independent Colony for Extraterrestrial Habitation, Autonomy, and Behavior Health (MICEHAB) would give scientists the ability to study the effects of long-duration space exploration on mice.

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will bring home samples of the asteroid Bennu after spending two years studying it in depth.

The full moon of August will rise for skywatchers around the world early tomorrow, and you can get a preview of this so-called Full Sturgeon Moon in a live webcast tonight (Aug. 17).

While NASA discusses how to one day send humans to Mars, a group of scientists have has delved more than a half-mile (1.1 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface to study nearby environments that resemble those of the Red Planet.

An irregular galaxy with a peculiar, lopsided shape was photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy — known as NGC 2337 — is considered irregular because it lacks a defined shape.

NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) has passed a key design milestone, bringing the project one step closer to snagging a boulder off an asteroid and pulling it into orbit around the moon.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to lift off Sept. 8 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. If all goes according to plan, the probe will return a pristine sample of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu to Earth in September 2023.

Crystals of proteins that could be useful in medical research can be grown bigger and better in space than on Earth, a new study shows.

Chinese astronomers witnessed a supernova in the 4th century and studies have suggested Supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 was created from it.

Astronomers observing a white dwarf star's eruption into a classical nova have found evidence of additional dwarf nova outbursts leading up to the big explosion.

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is three years away, but the chance for the U.S. Treasury to issue coins for the mission's half-centennial is fleeting. A grassroots campaign aims to support legislation now before the U.S. Congress.