Eighth Attempt to Reach Beagle 2 Fails
Image credit: Beagle 2 The search for Beagle 2 continues. Operators announced on December 31 that the British lander had…
Hubble Finds a Distant Proto-Cluster of Galaxies
Image credit: Hubble An international team of astronomers have gathered evidence that galaxies formed very quickly after the Big Bang.…
Stardust Gets Ready for Comet Encounter
Image credit: NASA/JPL In less than 2 days, NASA's Stardust spacecraft will fly past Comet Wild 2 - on January…
Spirit Makes a Minor Course Correction
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Spirit rover made a slight correction to its trajectory on December 26, when it fired its…
Mars Express Changes Its Orbit
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Mars Express completed a major orbit maneuver, bringing the spacecraft from an equatorial…
Top Space Stories for 2003
2003 was quite a year for space and astronomy, with the loss of Columbia and Chinese making their first successful…
Martian Crater Could Have Swallowed Beagle 2
Image credit: Malin Lord Sainsbury, the UK Minister of Science and Technology reinforced today that they haven't given up hope…
Book Review: Rocket Man
In his newest book, Rocket Man, David Clary took on the challenge of describing the person that was Robert Goddard…
Young Gas Giants Have to Fight to Survive
Image credit: ESA Planet hunters have found more than 30 stars with gas giants in a tight orbit. This orbit…
First Double Star Launched
Image credit: ESA The first of two Double Star satellites was successfully launched Monday on board a Chinese Long March…