Gregory Olsen Will Be the Next Space Tourist
Space Adventures announced today that Gregory Olsen will be their next private space tourism client. He's expected to launch for…
Experiment Will Help Probe “Theory of Everything”
Theorists are working madly to develop the new "Theory of Everything" that will tie together all the forces in the…
ESA Tests Cargo Ship Tracking System
The European Space Agency has successfully tested a new tracking system that will allow its new automated cargo ship dock…
Cassini’s New Saturn Movie
A series of 30 images of Saturn taken by Cassini from February 15-19 have been blended together into a mini-movie…
Time to Help Save Hubble
As you've probably heard, NASA has cancelled a future mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. This means that Hubble…
Learning How to Live Off the Land
Researcher Dr. Mike Duke has been working for several years to create a rover that could use lunar dust to…
Chandra Sees Magnesium in an Exploded Star
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has found unexpectedly large quantities of magnesium in an exploded star called N49B. N49B exploded as…
Solving the Puzzle of Mars’ Spiral Icecaps
The spiral shape of the Martian icecaps has puzzled astronomers since they were discovered. No place on Earth, or in…
Greece and Luxembourg to Join the ESA
Greece and Luxembourg have been approved to join the European Space Agency; they should become full members of the agency…
Yangtze River From Space
The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite took this latest image of the mouth of the Yangtze River; the longest river…