GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE

Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles…

SORCE SATELLITE CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ON ORBIT

Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has…

GIANT BLACK HOLE RIPS APART STAR

Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black…

Rosetta – a space sophisticate

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will be getting under way in February 2004. The Rosetta…

Weather eye on Europe

ESA’s new Weather Today website allows you to access data from space relied upon by weather…

X-43A FLIGHT DELAYED

The flight of NASA’s X-43A has been postponed, due to an incident with the rudder actuator…

ESA Mars Express calls up NASA Spirit Rover

A pioneering demonstration of communications between the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter and NASA’s Mars…

Rosetta and Ariane 5 launcher

The Rosetta payload for Flight 158 made its initial contact with hardware from the Ariane 5…

Olympus Mons – the caldera in close-up

View from overhead of the complex caldera (summit crater) at the summit of Olympus Mons on…

PREDICTIONS OF MORE TROPICAL RAIN

As the tropical oceans continue to heat up, following a 20-year trend, warm rains in the…