Shuttle Lands Safely
The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts landed safely Tuesday morning after completing their mission to upgrade…
Search for Planets Gets Closer to Home
Image credit: NASA Locating the faint evidence of planets circling distant stars used to require high performance optics, like those…
Success! Columbia Releases Upgraded Hubble
After five days of repairs, the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope was released from the space shuttle Columbia. Over the…
Hubble Reveals Bow Shock Around Young Star
Image credit: Hubble Even though the Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission while it's upgraded, older images are still…
Grace Readied for Launch
Image credit: NASA NASA and the German Space Agency are getting ready to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment…
Hubble Gets a New Camera
Image credit: NASA During a seven and a half hour spacewalk today, astronauts James Newman and Michael Massimino installed the…
Oops, the Universe is Beige
Image credit: JHU Astronomers from John Hopkins University announced several weeks back that if you averaged out the colour of…
Watch the Shuttle Mission Live
Okay, if you want more information about the current space shuttle mission, I highly recommend that you just go straight…
NASA Makes Contact With Pioneer
Even though it's a distant 11.9 billion kilometres away, Pioneer 10 is still coming in loud and clear. NASA scientists…
Hubble Gets New Solar Panels
Spacewalking astronauts spent their second day outside the space shuttle Columbia on Tuesday, adding a second new solar array to…