European Columbus laboratory Ready for delivery

The Columbus laboratory is Europe’s cornerstone contribution to the International Space Station. Final integration has been…

Beijing Sandstorm

The worst sandstorm in five years swept through Beijing, China, covering the city in some 300…

Rivers Under Antarctica

British scientists have discovered rivers the size of the Thames in London flowing hundreds of miles…

Human High Gravity Study

NASA has teamed up with two universities to study ways to reduce the adverse effects of…

Inuit Students Chat with ISS

Thanks to Amateur Radio and an international teleconferencing link, Inuit students attending Jaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq,…

Tumbling Neutron Star

Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, an international group of astrophysicists discovered that one spinning…

Venus South Pole Images

ESA’s Venus Express has returned the first-ever images of the hothouse planet�s south pole from a…

Hubble Sees Tenth Planet

For the first time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has seen distinctly the “tenth planet,” currently nicknamed…

Ocean Surface Topography Mission

NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international agencies to launch the Ocean Surface…

Venus Express enters orbit

On April 11,2006, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner…