An ambitious ESA project to chart ten years in the life of the Earth’s vegetation has…
Discovery of new planet similar to Earth
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet more similar to Earth than any found…
Predicting the weather on Titan
Using recent Cassini, Huygens and Earth-based observations, scientists have been able to create a computer model…
MAGNETIC FIELD MISSION ENDS
NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a…
Afghanistan from Space
Winter snow blankets the heights of the Pamir Mountains and the Hindu Kush in this Envisat…
XMM-Newton scores 1000
XMM-Newton, ESA’s X-ray observatory, continues its quest for the unknown. This month, after five years of…
Launch Result of MTSAT-2
Rocket System Corporation (RSC) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Multi-functional Transport Satellite…
Spacecraft, heal thyself
Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive…
Space Propulsion Breakthrough
The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of…
Next International Space Station Crew
NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as…