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…
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…