NASA unveiled its budget request to Congress Tuesday with the release of two companion documents: the…
Oxygen and carbon discovered
The well-known extrasolar planet HD 209458b, provisionally nicknamed ‘Osiris’, has surprised astronomers again. Oxygen and carbon…
MARS LANDMARKS TO HONOR COLUMBIA CREW
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced the Martian hills, located east of the Spirit Mars Exploration…
Getting together in deep space
The Rosetta space probe’s long trek to Comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko The countdown to Rosetta’s rendezvous in…
SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MEMORIAL
The families of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 crew and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe unveiled a…
X-ray shout echoing through space
ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with…
Artificial island arises off Dubai
The rapidly changing face of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is portrayed by contrasting Synthetic…
EDUCATORS SPRING INTO FLIGHT
This spring, NASA Explorer Schools teams of teachers and administrators from Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa will…
Rosetta is topped off
Europe’s Rosetta comet-intercept spacecraft has been fueled at the Spaceport in French Guiana, as the countdown…
AO-40 Amateur Satellite Ailing
Ground controllers for the AO-40 satellite are trying to figure out just what happened to cause…