Cleaning Up Kennedy Space Center After Frances

20 years ago

NASA workers are continuing to assess the damage that Hurricane Frances wreaked on the Kennedy Space Center when it tore…

Dark Matter is Tugging at a Galactic Cluster

20 years ago

Astronomers theorize that most of the mass in the Universe is dark matter; it's invisible and detectable only by the…

Colliding Galaxies Awash With Star Formation

20 years ago

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken this image of two galaxies colliding, creating destruction and a wave of new star…

Gemini Sees Galaxies in a Royal Rumble

20 years ago

The latest image released by the Gemini Observatory shows a group of galaxies tearing each other apart 300 million light-years…

NASA Assesses the Damage From Frances

20 years ago

It's bad, but it could have been much worse. Hurricane Frances devastated Florida over the weekend, with the eye sweeping…

Final Helios Report Released

20 years ago

The board inquiring into the loss of the remotely-operated Helios aircraft released its final report on Friday. Helios was a…

Astronauts Complete Final Spacewalk

20 years ago

The crew of Expedition 9, Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke, completed their fourth and final walk outside the International Space…

Hubble Sees the Stingray Nebula

20 years ago

The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of the Stingray Nebula, known to astronomers as Henize 1357. The dim star…

Saturn’s Cool… Well, Its Rings Are

20 years ago

According to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the temperature of Saturn's rings range from cold to really really cold. In this false-colour…

Getting Gravity Probe B Ready Was Tough

20 years ago

After four months in orbit, NASA's Gravity Probe B is finally ready to begin its scientific mission - to find…