Chinese Space Launch Could be Only Weeks Away
China is preparing to launch its first astronauts some time in October, according to people in Hong Kong. Both the…
Astronauts Photograph Hurricane Isabel
Astronauts on board the International Space Station captured several images of Hurricane Isabel on Saturday as they flew over at…
You’ve Got to Be Fast to Spot Burst Afterglows
Image credit: NASA Until recently, astronomers thought that nearly two-thirds of gamma ray bursts - the most powerful known explosions…
Satellite Photo of Hurricane Isabel
Image credit: NASA NASA's Aqua satellite took this overhead view of Hurricane Isabel on September 14, 2003 while it was…
Coldest Temperature Ever Created
Image credit: NASA/JPL Researchers from NASA and MIT have cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded - one-half…
First Public Mars Images Released
Image credit: NASA/JPL For the past few weeks, NASA has been letting the public select targets for the Mars Global…
Galileo Will Plunge Into Jupiter on September 21
Image credit: NASA/JPL Time is running out for NASA's Galileo spacecraft. After eight years of loyal service imaging Jupiter and…
Iraq Oil Fire Seen From Space
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Envisat environmental satellite captured this image of a burning oil pipeline in northern…
NASA Starts Packing up Columbia Debris
With the Columbia accident investigation largely complete, workers at the Kennedy Space Center have begun packing up the 84,000 pieces…
NASA Proposes to Search for Smaller Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL Five years ago NASA began a program to discover 90% of potential Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 1…