Новости за 21.07.2016

Temperatures are rising and sea ice is melting at a record rate this year.

The world's largest annual meeting of space explorers will land in Houston in Fall 2019 to honor the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

"Star Trek Beyond" is the 13th outing for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. See stills and photos from the 2016 Star Trek movie here.

Just in time for the new "Star Trek" movie arrival in theaters this weekend, the Hubble Space Telescope released its latest image from its "Frontier Fields" program.

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to observe galaxy cluster Abell S1063, as it was 4 billion years ago. The phenomenon of 'gravitational lensing' seen in the image is created by the cluster's huge mass and reveals light from galaxies far beyond it.

A red planet, a ringed planet and a bright yellow star meet in the night while a comet whizzes by in a gorgeous skywatching image.

The incredibly sensitive LUX dark matter detector, buried under a mile of rock, has come up empty on its 20-month search for dark matter — further narrowing down the possible characteristics of the strange substance.

Mountains on Venus may cause the strange weather patterns observed in the thick cloud layer of the planet's insufferable atmosphere, new research shows.

A sped-up video of Earth spinning through space shows a dizzying array of clouds and continents from a satellite located 1 million miles away.

A rare type of meteorite found on Earth may have been a critical ingredient in the geologic recipe that shaped the surface of Mercury, new research shows.

The car-size Curiosity rover recently began autonomously choosing some of the targets for its ChemCam instrument, which blasts Martian rocks or soil with a laser and analyzes the composition of the resulting vapor.

Good news, everyone! The beloved animated series "Futurama" is getting a new life, sort of, via a live-action fan film called "Fan-O-Rama."

The science fiction action is in full swing at San Diego Comic-Con in California today (July 21), with director Luc Besson and EuropaCorp unveiling this latest image from their 2017 space film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."

The U.S. Air Force said one of DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution imagery satellites was part of what they described as a debris-causing event on July 19, but the company said that the satellite remains operational.

NASA's life-hunting Viking mission to Mars was the most complex robotic exploration effort of its day, but the space agency initially wanted it to be even more ambitious.