French Astronaut Gets Government Position
Image credit: ESA Claudie Haigner?, an astronaut with the European Space Agency, has been appointed to the post of Minister…
View of Colorado Fire from Space
Image credit: NASA A new photo released from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the huge swath of destruction caused by the…
Write Your Name on an Asteroid?
A Japanese spacecraft will give people an opportunity to land their name on an asteroid. Due for launch near the…
Thunderstorms Delay Shuttle Landing
Flight controllers decided to wave two landing attempts of the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday because of thunderstorms threatening the…
New Planetary System has Familiar Feel
Image credit: NASA Planet hunters have discovered a new extrasolar system that looks remarkable like our own Solar System. Until…
Sea Launch Delivers PanAmSat to Orbit
Image credit: Sea Launch A Zenit-3SL successfully carried a PanAmSat's Galaxy IIIC satellite into orbit on Saturday, marking the seventh…
Hubble Reveals Retina Nebula
Image credit: Hubble The most recently released photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is of wispy nebula IC 4406,…
Endeavour Undocks from the Station
The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday and prepared to return a team of astronauts…
Second Spacewalk Goes Well
During a 5-hour spacewalk, astronauts Franklin Chang-D?az and Philippe Perrin completed installation of the Mobile Remote Servicer Base System on…
ESO Captures Image of Tarantula Nebula
Image credit: ESO The latest image released from the European Southern Observatory is of the Tarantula Nebula, located in the…