Four Astronauts Enter Hall of Fame
Four space shuttle veterans were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on…
Controllers Delay Beagle 2 Tests
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency is in the process of testing various instruments on board the Mars Express…
Investigators Strengthen Foam Damage Claim
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board announced today that the foam theory was the "most probable cause" of the space shuttle…
Mars Surveyor Snaps Phobos
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA's Mars Global Surveyor took several photos of Mars' moon Phobos on June 1, 2003. The first…
Opportunity Pushed Back a Day
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA decided to push back the launch of the second Mars Explorer rover this week because of…
Adaptive Optics Improve Images of the Sun
Image credit: NSO A new adaptive optics system is helping the National Solar Observatory take much more vivid images of…
Antenna Problems on SOHO
Image credit: ESA The NASA/ESA SOHO spacecraft, which observes the Sun, is having problems pointing its high-gain antenna, which it…
Stardust Completes Course Correction
Image credit: NASA NASA's Stardust probe completed a minor course correction on Thursday, now only 198 days away from its…
Nozomi Makes its Earth Flyby
The Japanese space probe Nozomi, passed an important milestone on its journey to Mars Thursday night with the successfully flyby…
Hubble Looks Way Back in Time
Image credit: Hubble A new series of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope contain 25,000 galaxies, many of which…