Missions
MESSENGER Lifts Off for Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, to begin its mission to become the first spacecraft…
Search for Origins Programs Shortlisted
NASA has picked 9 ideas out of 26 proposals for further study as part of its Astronomical Search for Origins…
Swift Moves to Florida to Prepare for Launch
NASA's Swift satellite is due to arrive at Florida's Cape Canaveral today, to prepare for its launch in October. Named…
China Launches Second Double Star
The second of the Double Star science satellites was successfully launched on board a Chinese-built Long March 2C rocket on…
New Frontiers Missions Shortlisted
NASA has shortened its list of potential missions for its New Frontiers program down to two spacecraft. The first is…
Gaia Will Map a Billion Stars
The European Space Agency is working an ambitious new space observatory that will be capable of precisely mapping a billion…
Update on Gravity Probe B
Designed to test two of Einstein's predictions about the nature of gravity and relativity, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft is…
Rosetta’s Self Portrait
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft snapped this self portrait recently as part of a series of tests of the…
New Horizons Mission Will Measure the Solar Wind out at Pluto
Scheduled for launch in 2006, the New Horizons mission will finally get a close up view of Pluto, the only…
Gravity Probe B’s First Month in Space
It's been a month since NASA launched the Gravity Probe B; an experiment designed to test Einstein's predictions about gravity…