Новости за 31.10.2016

The mysterious tilt of the moon's orbit might come from an angled, giant impact that vaporized most of the early Earth, creating the moon in the process, a new study finds.

The former Canadian Space Agency astronaut reads his children's book "Darkest Dark" to the Amazon Prime series' 'world famous rock puppy, Bookaboo."

Two theories explain the formation of Earth and other planets.

NASA called for photos of kids' space-themed Halloween costumes on Twitter. Here are some of the best costumes.

Fifty years ago, two astronauts conceived a Halloween "treat": a mission patch depicting their flight to space, not atop a rocket, but on broomsticks. The proposed Gemini 12 patch might have been, were it not for a "trick" with their launch date.

Audio from conversations between Jet Propulsion Laboratory team members and John Glenn, President Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson have be unearthed. The conversations were about America's first communications satellites.

The engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory they have a contest each year to see which NASA team can dream up the best pumpkin work of art for Halloween.

How many planets can fit into the habitable zone around a star? A group of scientists saw this question posed by a non-scientist on Reddit and decided to answer it.

A new NASA video explains the origin of a mammoth, pumpkin-shaped star, which is blasting off powerful X-rays and spinning so fast it's squashed to look like the festive gourd.

Witches, ghosts and ghouls don't just haunt the Earth on Halloween night — such spooky figures exist throughout the universe, too. Here are some of the most spine-chilling space photos to scare your pants off this Halloween.

The unfortunate transition of Schiaparelli lander into "Schiaparelli Crater" may have a silver lining.

Satellites offer a new view of snow-covered Arctic landscape.

Although it's uncertain when the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) will zoom-in on Tabby's star, hopes are high that the world's biggest single dish radio observatory will contribute greatly to Breakthrough Listen's SETI project

Expedition 49 Crew, including NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, landed safely in Kazakhstan after 115 days in space.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's hub of planetary exploration, turned 80 years old today (Oct. 31).

If the stresses of life are starting to fry your nerves, try the cooling balm of a video fly-though of the International Space Station, set to an ultra-smooth saxophone solo and deep, meditative bass tones.

Virgin Galactic is planning to begin glide flight tests of its second SpaceShipTwo next Tuesday, almost exactly two years after a fatal test flight of its first suborbital spaceplane.

A lunar transit was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory for about an hour on Oct. 30, 2016. 59 percent of the Sun was blocked by the moon at its peak.

Find out when and where you can see Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter in the night sky this month. Twin fish (Pisces constellation), a ram (Aries constellation) and a triangle (Triangulum Galaxy) are great skywatching targets.