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The Supermoon was captured rising behind the rocket, which is to be launched this Thursday.

• 15 ноября 2016, 12:23

Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars which makes it far more likely that life could be found there, the US space agency NASA said.

• 29 сентября 2015, 12:04

Russia will try again to make contact with an unmanned cargo ship after communications were lost following the spacecraft's launch toward the International Space Station.

• 29 апреля 2015, 12:02

As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years in space this week, NASA and its international partners are building an even more powerful tool.

• 22 апреля 2015, 14:53

A NASA probe that has circled Mercury for the past four years will make a dramatic death plunge into the planet's surface in late April when it runs out of fuel.

• 17 апреля 2015, 10:58

Russia will continue using the International Space Station along with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to stop financing it in 2020.

• 25 февраля 2015, 15:04

The start of a series of spacewalks to carry out major work at the International Space Station will be delayed by a day to Saturday so NASA can investigate a spacesuits problem.

• 20 февраля 2015, 14:59

NASA hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa.

• 03 февраля 2015, 15:24

NASA's Orion vehicle aims to carry humans farther into space than ever before, but its protective heat shield is basically the same as that used for the Apollo Moon missions.

• 06 декабря 2014, 11:37

The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry humans farther in deep space than ever before, is poised to blast off in what NASA hailed as a first step in mankind's journey to Mars.

• 04 декабря 2014, 16:31

NASA hailed the first-ever landing of a spacecraft on a comet as a "breakthrough moment" in the history of space exploration.

• 13 ноября 2014, 11:00

Ever-growing Google now has an airport to its name: the Internet giant has signed a 60-year lease to run a NASA airbase that comes with massive hangars for dirigibles.

• 12 ноября 2014, 12:27

Orbital Sciences postponed its planned launch of the Cygnus cargo ship toward the International Space Station.

• 28 октября 2014, 15:23

A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.

• 20 октября 2014, 12:18

An American and a German astronaut spent just over six hours on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station for equipment repairs and maintenance.

• 08 октября 2014, 13:14

The American space agency has a published a photo taken in August, which shows the eastern basin of the Southern Sea completely dried up.

• 02 октября 2014, 01:18

NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to build America's next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017.

• 17 сентября 2014, 18:00

The company -- or companies -- that will build America's next space taxi to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and back is to be revealed.

• 17 сентября 2014, 13:49

The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule.

• 16 сентября 2014, 12:08

NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has reached the base of the Martian mountain it aims to explore and should start drilling rocks there soon.

• 12 сентября 2014, 11:19