Новости за 21.09.2016

NASA has announced a new time frame for the delayed launch of an unmanned flight that will carry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency said the cargo resupply mission will be launched no sooner than Oct. 9.

Vandenberg Air Force Base is a military facility on the west coast of California that has hosted more than 700 launches and 1,100 ballistic launches.

Some of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever discovered are producing baby stars at higher rates than closer galaxy clusters, and scientists aren't sure why.

Real-life astronaut Buzz Aldrin introduced his virtual counterpart Sept. 18 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, previewing a new "mixed reality" exhibit that lets visitors explore the surface of Mars with a virtual Aldrin as their guid

A giant blob of gas and dust far off in the universe mysteriously glows bright green, and astronomers have finally figured out why.

Using the Eurupean Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and ALMA array, astronomers have spotted two galaxies at the heart of the cloud which are very actively forming stars. This activity is lighting up the surrounding "blob."

It took decades of developing theories and accumulating evidence before the Big Bang idea was even warmly thought of, but the detection of the cosmic microwave background forced even the most truculent astronomers to grudgingly accept it.

The autumnal equinox takes place on Sept. 22. Slooh Community Observatory is celebrating this celestial event with a live webcast. Watch it here at Space.com.

An anticipated decision by Russia’s space agency to temporarily reduce the size of its crew on the International Space Station should not have a major effect on NASA’s operations there, an agency official said.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is making strides in getting astronauts to Space from American soil once again. Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Dragon capsules are under development, along with necessary upgrades to the Space Station for them.

After one of a pair of stars dies, a planet orbiting both may be born from the left-behind debris — and sometimes, they might be born after one star dies.

Jack Garman, whose grasp of the Apollo 11 guidance computer saved the moon landing from a last-minute abort, died Sept. 20. He was 72. Garman recognized the unexpected 1201 and 1202 alarms that could have led to flight controllers aborting the mission.

Astronomers have known about the giant green LAB-1 gas cloud in Aquarius since 2000, but no one knew exactly what made it glow. Now the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA array have revealed the answer.