Новости за 21.12.2017

A Blue Moon is not typically blue, but it can be. Find out why there are two definitions of Blue Moon and learn when is the next Blue Moon.

Find out the current moon phases. The moon cycles through eight phases every month.

The full moon happens once a month. Find out when.

Trump: The U.S. government will team up with commercial firms to "improve the resiliency of our space architecture."

Physicists demonstrated that in the unique circumstances of quantum-correlated nuclei inside a chloroform molecule, entropy can spontaneously decrease.

It was a good year for a very bad conspiracy theory.

Learn more about January's full "Wolf Moon," which peaks Jan. 1 or 2, depending on your time zone. Then prepare for the Blue Moon of Jan. 31, including a total lunar eclipse!

Here's a guide to the major astronomical events of the next year, as well as space launches and milestones for spacecrafts already in travel.

Clouds and storms swirl on Jupiter in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill used data collected by the spacecraft's JunoCam imager during a flyby on July 11 to create this color-enhanced view.

Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to seek to understand the universe and our place in it.

The 2017 Ursid meteor shower will peak in the early morning on Friday (Dec. 22), but it won’t be a very spectacular shooting-star show.

Look up tonight for the peak of December's lesser-known display of shooting stars, the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks overnight on Dec. 21 and 22.

Astronomers will soon get another look at the big, ghoulishly weird space rock that buzzed Earth on Halloween three years ago.

New analysis of microbial fossils indicates they are the oldest known evidence of life on Earth.

A new crowdfunded documentary will look at the crowd behind the Apollo moon landings.

A Kansas museum is giving new meaning to the "spirit of Apollo" with the debut of a new boutique wine. The Cosmosphere partnered with Holman Cellars to offer Moonwalker, a wine featuring Apollo astronaut autographed labeled bottles.

Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.

A fictitious new climate simulation found that dragons scorching up Westeros could destabilize The Wall through global warming if "Game of Thrones" were real. Spoiler warning.

The discovery of gravitational waves last year sent ripples through the entire field of physics. It also ushered in a new era of astronomy.

Here are Space.com's top 10 favorite space science stories of 2017. Do you agree with our #1 pick?

Here are the some of the science fiction books Space.com's writers and editors have read and loved.