Spacecraft Designer Maxime Faget Passes Away
Dr. Maxime Faget, one of the most prolific of NASA's spacecraft designers, passed away on Saturday at the age of…
Dust Obscured Martian Landscape
This image of a Martian landscape was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft in May 2004. It…
Radio Telescopes Around the World Combine in Real Time
European and US astronomers have linked up their radio telescopes for the first time in real-time, through the Internet. The…
Rovers Still Turning Up Water Evidence
Now operating three times longer than originally expected, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers are still turning up fresh evidence that liquid…
Motion of Material in the Early Universe
Researchers from Caltech have looked deep into space to a time when early material in the Universe was swirling towards…
Antarctica Is Getting Ready to Really Heat Up
With all this talk of global warming, it may come as a surprise that Antarctica has actually been mostly getting…
Epsom Salts Could Be a Source of Martian Water
Researchers from Indiana University have found that under Mars-like conditions, Epsom-like salts can contain a significant amount of water. This…
New Mission Will Survey the Entire Sky in Infrared
The closest stars to our Solar System probably haven't been discovered because it's likely they're of a cool, dim class…
It Gave Until it Couldn’t Give Any More
Astronomers using the Gemini observatories have got themselves a bit of a mystery. They've found a binary system at EF…
Rover’s Wheels Acting Up
A problem with the wheels on NASA's Spirit rover has stopped it dead in its tracks on the surface of…