The US National Space Agency has unveiled five new concepts for space exploration projects, taking into account the Discovery program, which focuses on low-cost missions. According to published information, NASA has selected five groups of researchers, who are allocated $ XNUMX million for initial experiments. Project…

NASA has published a snapshot of the shock wave against the background of the Sun as the T-38C trainer jet crosses the sound barrier. Also shown is a photo and video of a shock wave from an aircraft flying at supersonic speed against the background of the lunar disk. This became possible thanks to the modification of the schlieren shooting method. ...

A new series of photos taken from the New Horizons probe and laid out by specialists from the National Space Agency shows the sunset on Pluto. The images show icy mountains illuminated through the planet's thin atmosphere. These photos were taken during an epic flyby of the planet by the New Horizons probe ...

A NASA astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS) showed a photograph of the United States. It shows the "night lights" of the country before dawn. Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko on September 15 marked the middle of their annual mission to the ISS (for comparison, a regular mission lasts from four ...

New Horizons has begun transferring the bulk of the data collected during the flight near Pluto. It will take 16 months to fully download all the collected data on the dwarf planet, according to the press service of NASA. NASA has already published the first images of Pluto's surface and its ...

At a conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed the idea of ​​a hitchhiker spacecraft. The concept itself is called Comet Hitchhiker and demonstrates new approaches to landing and entering orbit of small bodies - comets and asteroids. It is assumed that…

85-year-old American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second after Neil Armstrong to visit the lunar surface, together with the Florida Institute of Technology, will prepare a plan for the colonization of Mars. Aldrin hopes to establish a settlement on the planet in 25 years, in 2039. In this case…

  Soil subsidence in California is becoming an increasingly serious problem as farmers pump more water out of the land to fight drought. Soil levels are dropping in parts of the state, NASA's report released on Wednesday suggests ...

  For the first time in history, the crew members of the International Space Station tasted lettuce grown at the station. Experiments with plants in orbit have been carried out for a long time, but until now the results of experiments have always been sent to Earth for further research. The tasting was attended by NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Chell Lindgren, as well as a Japanese astronaut ...

NASA's DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) spacecraft managed to obtain a rare image of the far side of the Moon against the background of the Earth - from the Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system (objects located in it are equally attracted to both cosmic bodies). This was reported in…