Another giant solar explosion

Since Tuesday 28 October, explosive events originating from the Sun have been bathing the Earth and…

MINIATURE BIOLOGICAL LABS FOR USE IN SPACE

NASA is adapting tiny laboratories embedded in compact discs (CDs) to conduct biological tests aboard the…

Enormous X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO

The third most powerful solar X-ray flare on record, a remarkable X17.2 category explosion, erupted from…

SPACE STATION CREW CAPTURES UNIQUE VIEW OF CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

The wildfires ravaging southern California are even impressive from 240 miles above the Earth. NASA astronaut…

COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD REPORT ON-LINE

Volumes II-VI of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) report are available on-line. These volumes contain…

Lost in space

In a tidy house or office with a clean floor you can see immediately if someone…

Cervantes mission concludes with Soyuz TMA-2 landing

ESA astronaut Pedro Duque from Spain landed in the command module of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft…

AMSAT OSCAR ECHO TO LAUNCH IN MARCH

AMSAT-North America http://www.amsat.org/ has announced that launch of the AMSAT OSCAR-E Amateur Radio microsat–the “Echo Project”–has…

SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY DURING SPACE STATION MISSION

All systems remain go for a return to Earth Monday for the seventh International Space Station…

TWO-HAM CREW ON SPACE STATION

The new two-ham crew of Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Foale, KB5UAC,…