SOOT MAY BE CHANGING THE ARCTIC

NASA continues to explore the impact of black carbon or soot on the Earth’s climate. NASA…

NEW AGE OF PLANETARY SCIENCE

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured the light, for the first time, from two known planets orbiting…

WISE study starts in Toulouse

Since Saturday, 19 March, the study entitled Women International Space Simulation for Exploration (WISE) has been…

Space debris: assessing the risk

Assessing the risk that space debris pose to operational spacecraft and satellites is a challenge and…

Large Space Simulator

A new ‘specimen access device’ (SPAD) to allow safe and fast access to spacecraft being tested…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS05-014

The crew aboard the International Space Station is turning its attention to spacewalks, with repair and…

Giant Iceberg

Envisat radar imagery confirms that the B-15A iceberg ­ the world’s largest floating object ­ is…

Bombay India

The southern part of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India as seen from ESA’s Proba microsatellite. The…

Hourglass Shaped Craters

This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…

Satellite Radar sees Costal Pollution

A NASA-funded study of marine pollution in Southern California concluded space-based synthetic aperture radar can be…