Ariane Launches Communications Satellite
An Ariane 44L rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou on Tuesday evening at 2302 GMT (7:02…
Hubble Searches for More Plutos
Image credit: NASA The Hubble Space Telescope's latest task is to track down elusive Pluto-like objects that lurk at the…
Atlantis Undocks from the Station, Prepares for Landing
Image credit: NASA After a week of successful construction work, the 7-astronaut crew of the space shuttle Atlantis said their…
New Girder Bolted to Station
Atlantis astronauts Jerry Ross and Lee Morin completed a seven hour spacewalk on Saturday to finish bolting the newly installed…
Third Spacewalk Successful
Astronauts Steven Smith and Rex Walheim spent a productive day in space on Sunday as they continued to extend the…
Looking for Asteroids in the Earth’s Blindspot
Lately it seems that astronomers are discovering potentially harmful asteroids after they nearly miss our planet. This is because they're…
New Railcar Has a Few Glitches
After installing their new railcar on the International Space Station yesterday, NASA wanted to take it for a spin. The…
Astronomers Find Five Double Asteroid Systems
Image credit: Cornell According to researchers from Cornell University, binary asteroids - where a small asteroid orbits a larger one…
Looking for More Earths
One of the most exciting fields of research in astronomy is the search for extrasolar planets, and eventually the search…
<i>Atlantis</i> Docks with the Station
Image credit: NASA After its second day in space, Atlantis caught up, and docked with, the International Space Station. Its…