Новости за 21.03.2017

The White House will look at what is needed to protect and preserve the six Apollo moon landing sites almost half a century after the first astronauts walked on the lunar surface, as called for by legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump.

NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tracy Caldwell Dyson were in attendance at the oval office for the signing of the bill on Mar. 21, 2017.

SpaceX has been working with NASA to identify potential landing sites on Mars for both its Red Dragon spacecraft and future human missions.

The Breakthrough Starshot initiative has one very ambitious goal: to use high-powered lasers to launch a tiny, lightweight space probe toward our solar system's nearest star, Alpha Centauri, which is located roughly 4 light-years away. But what's the best

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet wore a small video camera on his chest on a Jan. 13, 2017 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. NASA’s Johnson Space Center gives it a ‘voice’ in this highlight reel from the day.

The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab has raised an additional $75 million in funding to reach its goal of frequent launches for small payloads.

Yves Meyer, a French mathematician who did pioneering work on a signal processing tool known as wavelet analysis, has won the Abel Prize, one of the top math prizes.

Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned.

Every now and then a scientific paper makes a real splash. We had one recently, to judge from recent headlines. "Moon rises to claim its place as a planet" said The Sunday Times on February 19, while the Mail Online asked "Is this lunarcy?".

Future NASA robots exploring Mars and other alien worlds may be even more productive, thanks to a pocketful of tagalong minirovers.

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is learning a hard lesson of Red Planet road trips: If you drive long enough, you'll wear out your wheels.

A cliff's collapse likely caused a bright outburst of gas and dust on Comet 67P in 2015, scientists announced today (March 21).

A leading official in China's lunar and Mars exploration program was reportedly denied a visa by the United States to attend a scientific conference here this week.

The magnetized rocks of Earth’s crust and upper mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planet’s magnetic field.

The space agency is thinking small, in terms of satellite size, for a number of current and future missions.

President Donald Trump signed the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 today (March 21), which sets a $19.5 billion budget for the agency for fiscal year 2017.

The cliff face is “directly and perpendicularly illuminated for just ~1.5 hours during one 67p day,” according to Dr. Maurizio Pajola and Dr. Stefano Mottola.

Two rocket launches scheduled for this week, one for Orbital ATK and the other for European launch provider Arianespace, have been delayed.

It may seem like we've got the universe pretty much figured out, but there is some pretty basic stuff that we just don't have a clue about.