Israeli concept artist Eyal Gever will collaborate with NASA to create the first man-made art object in outer space. This work of art will be a three-dimensional model of human laughter. Gever invited everyone from all over the world to write down and send him their laughter. What kind…
Scientists have shown the first images of the giant asteroid 2015 TB145 approaching Earth. This object was discovered by the American automatic Pan-STARRS system in Hawaii, and the first images were obtained at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. In the images obtained, scientists noticed dark in the center of the asteroid ...
Russian cosmonauts will travel to the moon and land on its surface in 2029. The head of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Vladimir Solntsev, spoke about this at a conference on space technologies. “2029 is a man's flight to the Moon and landing on it,” he said ...
NASA has completed a technical test of the project of a new heavy launch vehicle Space Launch System, which is planned to be used for a flight to Mars. According to a NASA representative, the first stage of testing the rocket engines and accelerators was successful. All major components of the carrier have been put into production. On the channel of the Marshall Space Center ...
NASA has shown in the form of computer animation the destruction and death of a star falling into a black hole and being torn apart by its gravity. The video is based on real events that took place in a distant galaxy, which is located at a distance of 290 million light years from Earth. Research Article…
US President Barack Obama called US astronauts Scott Kelly and Chell Lindgren, who are currently aboard the International Space Station. Obama congratulated Scott Kelly on a record time in orbit among American astronauts - last Friday he exceeded ...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station (ISS) photographed the aurora (aurora). The picture was taken on the night of October 7-8, 2015, when a magnetic storm broke out on Earth. The aurora has been seen in the UK, the Baltics, Scandinavia and ...
NASA is testing a prototype lunar rover to search for water ice at the poles of Earth's natural satellite. The device, dubbed the RP15, has already passed a series of tests at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center and, according to previously published data, successfully coped with several key tasks, including surface drilling and sample capture. Later ...
Rover Curiosity photographed a fragment of Mount Sharp on Mars. In the foreground, three kilometers from the camera, high ridges rich in hematite and iron oxide are visible. Behind them are hills of clay minerals, behind which are smooth mountains of sulphate ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent colorful images of Charon, Pluto's satellite. Charon is the largest satellite in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a rather drab, cratered world - instead they find a landscape covered in ...