FUEL-TANK SAFETY SYSTEM TESTED

An aircraft normally used to transport the Space Shuttle has been pressed into service to test…

Titan’s surface revealed

Piercing the layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft reveal an…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-019

The International Space Station (ISS) is again operating with three of its four control gyroscopes, thanks…

Mapping the Galaxy

One of ESA’s most ambitious current projects has the aim of compiling the most precise map…

FIRST 3-D VIEW OF SOLAR ERUPTIONS

NASA-funded scientists have created the first three-dimensional (3-D) view of massive solar eruptions called Coronal Mass…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-018

The second time is the charm for two International Space Station (ISS) spacewalkers. Thursday night the…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-18

The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…

Space at the Farnborough Air Show

Every two years, specialists and fans of aircraft and space gather at Farnborough for the International…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-017

Mission managers are giving the green light for crewmembers to try again Wednesday to repair a…

ISS astronaut uses ham radio to announce daughter’s birth

International Space Station astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, and his wife Renita became parents for the second…