Maybe There Wasn’t Water on Mars in the Past
Image credit: NASA Since it arrived at Mars in 1997, the Mars Global Surveyor has been searching the surface of…
Satellites Could Provide Early Warning for Forest Fires
Image credit: NASA New software developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may give firefighters a new tool for spotting forest…
New Information on the Early Universe
Image credit: ESO An international team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to look…
Where Should NASA Look on Mars?
Image credit: NASA/MSSS To celebrate the closest approach of Mars in 60,000 years, NASA is looking for suggestions for where…
Worldwide Mars Events
As I mentioned in the newsletter a couple of weeks ago, I'm hard at work collecting details about events around…
Sun’s Flip is Letting the Dust In
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft has confirmed that the Sun's 11-year cycle that causes it to…
NASA Makes Safety Center a High Priority
The director of NASA's Langley Research Center, Roy Bridges, says that the new Engineering and Safety Center is on track…
SIRTF Launch Delayed
Image credit: NASA The launch of NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) was pushed back at least two days because…
Pinpointing the Distance to a Pulsar
Image credit: NSF Astronomers have used the accuracy of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to pinpoint…
SMART-1 Launch Pushed Back
Image credit: ESA The launch of the European Space Agency's SMART-1 mission to explore the Moon was pushed back because…