Новости за 12.09.2016

This morning (Sept. 12), Jeff Bezos announced a new family of massive reusable rockets in development for his company Blue Origin. The rockets will be designed to launch both satellites and humans.

For decades astronomers have study what happened to thousands of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way that were predicted by simulations, but not observable. New supercomputer simulations suggest that they were destroyed by supernova explosions.

More than a half century after the first NASA astronauts flew in space, one might assume that there are no grand, sweeping narratives left untold about the early years of the space program. Author Margot Lee Shetterly found one to reveal in "Hidden Figure

Several European Space Agency (ESA) missions currently underway and in the future have and will give humanity a better understanding of our Universe. Missions include: Planck, Euclid, Gaia, Herschel, Mars Express and more.

The early Earth could have been hit by a Mercury-like planet embryo deep in its past, letting the planet keep hold of the carbon necessary for life, a new study suggests.

Stars may look like individual points of light from Earth, but most orbit with at least one stellar companion. Astronomers aren't sure how this happens, but new research finds that the way stars spin may hold evolutionary clues.

An amazing new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows bright-blue wisps of glowing gas and hot, sparkling young stars within a satellite dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will get more than a little help from the Canadian Space Agency when it reaches Asteroid Bennu in 2020.

It turns out that solar wind may not be the only culprit behind Mars' thinned atmosphere.

Hundreds of black holes could be lurking inside a cluster of stars that orbits the Milky Way galaxy, a new study shows.

An all sky network of cameras in Canada captured imagery of the aurora borealis in March 2013. At the same time, NASA's THEMIS mission was capturing data on Earth's vibrating magnetic field lines related to it.

The Martian landscape rivals the beauty of Earth's national parks in amazing new photos taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover last week.

Amazing views of the Martian landscape rival the beauty of Earth's national parks in new photos taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover last week.