Elisef Kosman

The Tesla Roadster, and the astronaut doll, against the background of the Earth. No this is not a joke. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched a car into deep space on the world's most powerful launcher

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The heavy Falcon on the launch pad, on the eve of the maiden flight. Source: SpaceX.

Today: the maiden flight of the heavy Falcon; Musk: "50% chance of success"

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A Love rocket launched a "disco ball" into space - and angered astronomers

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The Falcon Heavy during the Hestian Burner experiment. Source: Elon Musk's Twitter page.

The heavy Falcon came to life in a static combustion test for its 27 engines

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Simulation of the Israeli spacecraft to the moon. Source: SpaceIL.

The Google Lunar X Prize contest will end without a winner

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The Elektron launch pad for its second test flight, and the first in which it entered orbit around the Earth. Source: Rocket Lab.

A rocket is born: get to know the small satellite launcher "Electron"

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The average global warming map of 2013 – 2017, compared to the average temperature in the period from 1951 to 1980. Source: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

2017 was among the three hottest years since measurements began

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Orion Nebula, from an innovative video released by the American Space Agency that combines the Hubble Space Telescope (visible light) and Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) images and provides a spectacular XNUMXD virtual view of the colorful nebula. Source: NASA.

NASA takes you on a virtual journey through the Orion Nebula

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Ice has been discovered only one meter deep below the surface of Mars

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The Falcon 9 takes off in yesterday's launch, and in its nose the most secret cargo "Zuma". Source: SpaceX.

The secret Zuma satellite launched by SpaceX was apparently lost and burned up in the atmosphere

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The Falcon 9 launcher with the secret "Zuma" cargo on it, in the initial moments of takeoff, then the SLC-40 launch at Cape Canaveral. Source: Screenshot from the SpaceX live broadcast.

SpaceX started the year with the launch of the secret satellite "Zuma"

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John Young on the Moon, next to the Lunar Lander and the Lunar Rover, on the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Source: NASA.

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, has died

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The heavy Falcon on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, November 28, 2017. The huge vehicle was briefly placed on the launch pad, as part of a test for the first static combustion test, only after which the company will give the green light for the maiden flight. Source: SpaceX.

The space missions of 2018: from the world's most powerful launcher to the successor to the Kepler space telescope

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The contours seen on the surface of the red giant π1 Gruis are heat convection cells, in which hot plasma moves up from the depths of the star, cools, and returns back inside. Despite the blur in the image, she breaks new ground in her ability to observe the star's disk from a distance of 530 light years, and for the first time identify this phenomenon directly on a star other than our sun. Source: ESO.

Astronomers have discovered huge "bubbles" on the face of a red giant

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The illuminated trail left behind by the Falcon 9 launcher, which stunned the people of California last Friday. Photography: Kevin Gill.

2017: SpaceX's incredible year

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Assembling the payload fairing of the Falcon Heavy launcher around Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Photo: SpaceX.

Musk's Tesla car is getting ready to launch near Mars

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The 27 engines of the Falcon launcher are heavy. Source: Elon Musk's Twitter page.

SpaceX presents for the first time the Falcon Heavy - which will be the most powerful launcher in the world

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Simulation of the Dragonfly mission proposal - a rover will explore the surface of Titan, and will land after each flight to explore the surface and charge its batteries using a thermoelectric radioisotope generator (RTG). Source: NASA.

A rover to Titan's moon or collecting a sample from Rosetta's comet - which will NASA choose?

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SpaceX launched a used Dragon spacecraft, atop a used Falcon 9 launcher

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Watch: what it looks like to fly to the edge of space and back in a Blue Origin vehicle

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The successful landing of the New Shepard launcher yesterday (December 12) at the Blue Origin launch site in West Texas. Source: Blue Origin.

Blue Origin is taking another step towards tourist flights into space

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by JunoCam on July 10, 2017. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart.

Juno reveals the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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Astronaut Gene Cernan on the lunar surface, next to an American flag sticking out of the lunar rover, December 2017. The ceremony to announce the American return to the moon took place yesterday, December 11, the day that marked the 45th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the lunar surface, the last manned mission in the Apollo program . Source: NASA / Harrison H. Schmitt.

Trump ordered NASA to return American astronauts to the moon

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Imaging of the quasar J1342+0928, the active galactic halo that contains at its center a supermassive black hole, with a mass 800 million times that of our Sun, that is gobbling up a lot of material from a hot disk surrounding it. Source: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science.

The most distant supermassive black hole to date has been discovered

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Simulation of a Falcon Heavy launcher. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX will launch a Tesla car into orbit near Mars

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Illustration of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Voyager 1 activated engines that had been dormant for 37 years

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Merlin engine test at the SpaceX facility in Texas, 2012. Source: SpaceX.

A SpaceX rocket engine exploded during a test for a new version of the Falcon 9

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China has released very few details about the space plane it is developing, not even a single simulation or diagram explaining its shape. The above illustration shows a simulation of the Rockwell X-30 space plane, which was canceled in 1993. Source: James Schultz, NASA.

China is developing a multipurpose space plane that will be launched for the first time in 2020

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Falcon 9 launcher on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX will launch the two future communication space satellites

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Visualization of the planetary ring surrounding the football-shaped dwarf planet, the Omiya. Source: IAA-CSIC/UHU.

A planetary ring has been discovered around the Umi dwarf planet

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The used Falcon 9 soars into the sky in yesterday's successful launch. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched a used Falcon 9 launcher for the third time - and landed it on a rig in the middle of the sea

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Simulation of the InSight lander to Mars. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA invites you to add your name to its next Mars rover

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Simulation of the BFR spacecraft taking off from Mars back to Earth. The weak gravity of Mars, together with its thin atmosphere, allow a spacecraft to take off into space without the need for the huge launcher that it carried on its launch from Earth. Source: SpaceX.

Elon Musk reveals the way he will pay for his giant Mars rover

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A simulation of the Dragonfly mission proposal, to send a rover that could fly through the dense and icy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Source: APL/Mike Carroll.

Which spacecraft will succeed Cassini in exploring the secrets of Saturn and its moons?

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Simulation of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft approaching Earth. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft passed near Earth on its way to collect a sample from a nearby asteroid

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

For the first time, boron was found on Mars, a discovery that strengthens the possibility that life existed on it in the past

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Jim Bridenstine. Source: United States Congress.

Who is Jim Bridenstine, Trump's nominee for the next NASA administrator?

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SpaceX's futuristic space suit is revealed

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"Selfie" photo taken by Curiosity. In the background you can see Mount Sharp which stands in the center of Gale Crater, and Curiosity is currently climbing to its upper layers. To take selfies, Curiosity uses a camera mounted on its robotic arm, and takes pictures of itself from many angles. The images are then edited into a single image in Photoshop. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Five years since Curiosity landed on Mars

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Simulation of a moon around an extrasolar planet. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Was a moon discovered outside the solar system for the first time?

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Illustration: Olga Prilipko Huber / Brown University.

New research has revealed that the depths of the moon are rich in water

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The simulation released by SpaceX shows a Dragon 2 spacecraft landing on Mars. Source: Spice X.

Elon Musk: The Dragon 2 spacecraft will not be able to make a motorized landing

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The Great Red Spot, in a processed image of Juno. Source: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.

Juno passed over Jupiter's Great Red Spot for the first time

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The Long March 5 launcher takes off after the launch at the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island in China, yesterday at 14:23 (Israel time). Source: Xinhua.

The launch of the Chinese Long March 5 missile failed

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Trump signs the presidential order last Friday. Photo: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani.

Trump signed an order resurrecting the National Space Council

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The first launch in the series of close launches carried out by SpaceX, which was held on Friday. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched two rockets in three days

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A new catalog based on Kepler space telescope data has found 219 additional planet candidates. Of these, 10 Earth-like planets orbit their star in the "seat zone," one that is at a distance that allows liquid water to exist on the surface. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The Kepler space telescope found 219 more planets and revealed a clear gap between terrestrial planets and mini-Neptunes

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"Swiss cheese" holes in the south pole of Mars. The white substance in the picture is dry ice - made of carbon dioxide. The depressions in the dry ice layer reach a depth of only 10 meters. They are formed in the red summer season, when the sun's rays strike at a low angle in the polar region, and reach mainly the steep walls of the depressions - which encourages development laterally rather than in depth. The photograph, in its full resolution, has a resolution of 50 centimeters per pixel. Taken on March 25, 2017 by NASA's Mars orbiter MRO. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.

Why does part of the south pole of Mars look like Swiss cheese?

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NASA's new team of astronauts. Left to right - Zeena Cardiman, Jasmin Hamadi, Johnny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Rob Collin, Kayla Barron, Bob Haynes, Raja Chari , Laurel O'Hara and Jessica Watkins.Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz.

Martian generation? NASA unveils a group of 12 new astronauts

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The Dragon spacecraft that was launched today, on its first mission to the space station in September 2014, in a photo from the space station itself. Source: NASA.

SpaceX launched a used spacecraft to the space station for the first time

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