Новости за 21.11.2016

Space.com talked with "Arrival" consultant Stephen Wolfram about the way science fits into movies, how aliens are like artificial intelligences and whether math is invented or discovered — and what that would mean for alien mathematics and alien thought.

National Geographic's series "MARS," about the planning now for and future achievement of landing astronauts on the Red Planet, has claimed its first "victim."

Prior to the 2016 Ministerial Council, a conference held by the 22 member states of ESA to discuss the "future of space activities from Europe," this highlight reel of achievements and forward thinking was compiled.

Eager to get on the first spaceship leaving for Mars, Cartman and his girlfriend, Heidi, visit SpaceX in last week’s (Nov. 16) episode of "South Park."

Researchers have tested optical clock technology in space for the first time, showing that the extremely precise technology could find a use in space-based applications.

Two NASA artifacts that were used to assist astronauts landing from space, albeit on two different worlds in two eras, have landed on loan at a museum near where they were last used. An LLRV and a shuttle crew transport are on display at Edwards Air Force

Multiple companies are pursuing space mining activities, so what's standing in the way of a space mining gold rush?

There's a huge hole in the sun, but it has nothing to do with alien spaceships or any other conspiracy theory.

The latest set of space-fire experiments has blazed up aboard Orbital ATK's robotic Cygnus resupply vessel.

On Nov. 16th, 2016, NASA's STEREO probe had an imaging processing glitch that caused the HI-1 feed to display image composites from three different imagers (EUVI. HI-1. HI-2).

The movies make it look easy, but to grow food on Mars we'll have to create the soil from scratch and build our own mini-biosphere.

Some comets like to play "chicken" with the sun, but a small number of these sungrazers may not be comets at all.