Новости за 21.01.2016

Are intelligent aliens out there? If so, when will humanity make contact with them? Here's what some experts had to say.

Invisible "plasma lenses" shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets or hazelnuts might lurk between stars in the Milky Way, researchers say.

Trumpler 14 is one of the 'most populous clusters within the Carina Nebula.' It is also the youngest, exploding with hot, short-lived stars. The Hubble Space Telescope surveyed this ‘dazzing diamond-district’ of our the Milky Way galaxy.

"First ever flower grown in space makes its debut!" With that statement, astronaut Scott Kelly revealed to the world the bright orange zinnia that had bloomed on the International Space Station. But in Kelly's excitement, he made a mistake.

NASA will begin work on the next big space telescope after the James Webb Space Telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, which will be constructed from a refurbished military spy telescope.

Want to hear the rush of a satellite going by? Step inside this sound-filled interactive sculpture.

A winter storm seems poised to wallop the East Coast of the United States during the weekend of Jan 22-24. NASA's Goes-East satellite has been monitoring its progress.

The space agency is taking a ‘wait and see’ stance on indications of a ninth planet in our solar system (announced Jan. 21st, 2016). Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green says its based on "limited observations.”

Underwater microorganisms found in Antarctica create "oxygen oases" that might give scientists clues about how the planet developed an oxygen-rich atmosphere.

The brightest known galaxy in the universe is illuminated by the monster black hole at its center — which may also be tearing the galaxy apart.

Step outside on any evening this month and look toward the south. You will see one of the best-loved constellations, Orion the Hunter, surrounded by a circle of six brilliant stars.

Ten years ago, Pluto was a blurry picture in even state-of-the-art telescopes. Today, we have high-definition photography flowing in from New Horizons' flyby in July 2015.

The evidence for the existence of "Planet Nine" is indirect at the moment. But direct evidence could come relatively soon, in the form of a telescope observation, Planet Nine's proposers say.

NASA has added two potentially habitable moons of Saturn to the list of possible destinations for its next billion-dollar New Frontiers mission.