Shuttle’s Return to Flight Pushed Back to Summer

21 years ago

The return to flight of the space shuttle will probably be pushed back to midsummer according to NASA officials; not…

China Will Help Develop the Galileo Network

21 years ago

Image credit: ESA The European Union announced on Thursday that China will play a role in the development of the…

SpaceDev Will Build SpaceshipOne Motor.

21 years ago

Image credit: Scaled Scaled Composites announced today that it has selected San Diego-based SpaceDev to build the rocket engine for…

ESA’s View of Hurricane Isabel

21 years ago

Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency is helping to track the movement of Hurricane Isabel using its ERS-2 spacecraft,…

Galileo’s Final Study of Jupiter

21 years ago

Image credit: NASA/JPL We're only days away until Galileo's final plunge into Jupiter on September 21. Nearly out of fuel,…

Astronomers Find a Transparent Galaxy

21 years ago

Image credit: Hubble It turns out that a collection of stars orbiting the Andromeda galaxy are actually the remnants of…

More Evidence for Dark Energy

21 years ago

Image credit: Hubble Astronomers have studied the light from 11 new supernovae to help validate the evidence that some kind…

Are We Safe from Gamma Ray Bursts?

21 years ago

Image credit: ESA Gamma ray bursts (or GRBs) are the most powerful known explosions in the Universe. Although astronomers aren't…

New Evidence About the Formation of Galaxies

21 years ago

Image credit: PPARC Astronomers have long believed that galaxy formation in the early Universe was a spectacular event, with smaller…

Chandra Images the Bright Side of the Moon

21 years ago

Image credit: Chandra Although it's usually peering into deep space, Chandra looked a little closer to home and inspected the…