Новости за 21.03.2016

Some of NASA's top leaders are women, and while their personalities and passions are different, all of them have experienced working in a male-dominated field.

This site near Las Cruces, New Mexico, is being planned as a base for commercial spaceflight.

Former NASA astronaut Dan Tani – now boss of mission/cargo ops for Orbital ATK – helps keep his colleagues aboard the football field-sized orbiting lab stocked with food, clothing, consumables, science and industrial experiments.

Researchers using the space-based Japanese Suzaku X-ray observatory detected the chemical ingredients that create Earth-like planets in the cluster.

The Cygnus cargo spacecraft launching tomorrow (March 22) is ready to lug more materials up to the International Space Station than ever before, including experiments primed to spy on meteors, 3D print rare parts and start a huge fire.

John Chumack took this image of planet Jupiter sitting amidst its moons on March 8, 2016.

Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image of Tycho Crater on the moon's surface on February, 19, 2016.

In what was likely one of his last appearances before Congress, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended his agency’s 2017 budget request.

United Launch Alliance sought to distance itself from remarks its vice president of engineering made Tuesday implying the Denver-based rocket builder has all but decided to use Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine instead of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR1.

On March 21st, 2015, Comet 252P/LINEAR will pass ~5.4 million km (3.35 million miles) from Earth, ranking 5th on the close flyby list, since such distances could be calculated...

Comet P/2016 BA14 will come within 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) of the planet at about 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) Tuesday. Only two other comets have come closer to Earth throughout recorded history.

Geologic features, like massive volcanoes and deep canyons, alter red planet’s gravitational field causing fluctuations in satellite orbits.

The Discovery Channel Telescope has played a key role in identifying what could be one component of a comet twin -- both expected to fly past Earth later this month.

On Sept. 14th, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the merger, 1.3 billion years ago, of two black holes.