SMART-1 Nearly Captured By the Moon
The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft fired its ion thruster nearly continuously last week to set itself up to be…
Investigators Focus in On a Potential Cause for Genesis Crash
NASA investigators think they might have a potential reason why the Genesis sample return capsule failed to deploy its parachute…
New Guinea From Space
This image of the western part of the island of New Guinea was taken by the European Space Agency's Envisat…
Proton Launches AMC-15 Satellite
A Russian Proton rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday evening, carrying the AMC-15 broadcast satellite into orbit. The rocket…
Mars and Back in 90 Days on a Mag-Beam
Researchers from the University of Washington have been funded by NASA to develop a magnetized-beam plasma propulsion system (or mag-beam).…
Preparing for Huygens’ Release
When NASA's Cassini spacecraft took off towards Saturn, it brought along a passenger: the ESA's Huygens probe, which is designed…
New Insights Into Saturn’s Magnetosphere
Scientists from the Los Alamos Laboratory are beginning to study the data returned by from the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS);…
Book Review: Futures – 50 Years in Space, The Challenge of the Stars
David Hardy illustrates and Patrick Moore writes to make their book Futures - 50 Years in Space, The Challenge of…
Station’s New Sunroom Arrives in Florida
The European-built Cupola module has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now being prepared for an…
Spitzer Finds New Globular Cluster Nearby
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up a relatively close globular star cluster that was obscured by dust and invisible…