Halfway There: SpaceShipOne Hits Space Again
It was a nailbiter this morning at the Mojave spaceport in California when SpaceShipOne successfully returned to space; half way…
Eat Like a Martian in Alaska
It's been said that an army travels on its stomach. Well, that's true with astronauts too. Especially when they're headed…
Book Review: Leaving Earth
Early rocketeers had a vision. They wanted to enable human beings to safely travel from Earth to any destination in…
Mars Rover Tracks Spotted From Space
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has delivered a series of new photographs of the Red Planet taken in new high detail,…
Here Come The Thirty Metre Telescopes
When it comes to astronomy, size is everything. The biggest telescope on the planet is the 11-metre Hobby-Eberly on Mount…
Toutatis Sneaks Past the Earth on Wednesday
Asteroid Toutatis, a frequent visitor in our neighborhood, will pass as close as 1.5 million km (960,000) miles to the…
How Mars Could Be Losing Its Water
Data accumulated by the ASPERA-3 instrument on board the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft seems to indicate how Mars…
Da Vinci Project Pushes Back Launch
The da Vinci Project, a Canadian team of amateur rocket scientists, has pushed back the launch date of its Wildfire…
First Genesis Samples Shipped Out
NASA scientists picking through the wreckage of Genesis' capsule have shipped off the first sample to the University of California,…
Biggest Collision in the Universe
An international team of scientists have discovered one of the most powerful events since the Big Bang: a collision between…