NASA Hosts Media Day Featuring Airborne Storm Mission

NASA will host a media event Saturday, July 11 showcasing Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN),…

The North Sea Abloom

Despite its cold waters and harsh winds, the North Sea is a fertile basin for phytoplankton…

Flight VA224 is rescheduled for July 15, 2015: Ariane 5 ECA – Star One C4 and MSG-4

Complementary checks carried out the past few days have given satisfactory results.

On This Day in History

A look at what happened on previous July 8ths

ESA astronauts in Houston

It’s a very busy year for ESA astronauts. Following Samantha Cristoforetti’s return to Earth on June…

Cargo ship heads to space station

A Russian booster rocket on Friday successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space…

Stellar Sparklers That Last

While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in…

Stellar density map

The outline of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and of its neighbouring Magellanic Clouds, in an…

Northwest Sardinia

This image over part of the Italian island of Sardinia comes from the very first acquisition…

Intense and short-lived

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 or SDSS CGB 12067.1,…