Alan Stern Resigns From NASA
Alan Stern has stepped down as NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate. No word on Stern's reasons for…
XCOR: Economy Class Space Tourism?
XCOR Aerospace has thrown its hat into the space tourism ring, unveiling its two-seat suborbital spaceship, the Lynx. With its…
The Sun Bursts to Life: Sunspots, Flares and CMEs
As if to remind us it is still there, the Sun has put on an explosive show of sunspots, flares…
NASA U-Turn Over Mars Rover Funding
No sooner had news hit the web that NASA had cut funding to the Mars Exploratory Rovers (MER), NASA took…
Time Traveling With Spitzer
While time travel is seemingly impossible, we can actually look back in time with our telescopes to learn about the…
Award Winning Images from the STS-123 Gallery
The images coming down from the STS-123 mission have been nothing short of spectacular. The pictures have included amazing EVA…
A Space War would be a Seriously Messy Business
What if there was a Pearl Harbour-like, pre-emptive strike against orbiting satellites? What if our quarrels on the ground spill…
Spirit Rover is Switched Off to Save NASA Money (Update)
To save the Mars Expedition Rover (MER) program some cash, controllers will be forced to switch one of the four-year…
Dextre vs. HAL
As Endeavour departs from the International Space Station on Monday, the space shuttle crew leaves behind a two-armed robot, the…
Does a Boomerang Work in Space?
Testing a boomerang in space might look and sound trivial, but it’s an exciting physics experiment that helps scientists to…