B-15A iceberg breaking up

After five years of being the world’s largest free-floating object, the B-15A iceberg has finally broken…

Meteorites in Antarctica

Dr. Gordon Osinski, scientist at the Canadian Space Agency’s Planetary Exploration and Space Astronomy division, has…

Stellar Gas

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming…

Gobi Desert from Space

This Proba image shows numerous small lakes in the otherwise arid environment of the Gobi Desert…

ISS Commander Trying for Record

ISS Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has proven to be one of the more active…

FLYING WING MODEL SOARS

Ask anyone what an airplane looks like and most will tell you a tube with wings.…

TOMATOSPHERE

TOMATO SEEDS IN STUDENTS’ HANDS, AFTER 18 MONTHS IN SPACE The Tomatosphere educational project will reach…

First Galileo satellites named “GIOVE”

GIOVE – standing for “Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element” – is the name that has been chosen…

Venus Express en route

The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it…

Launch of the ATV pushed to 2007

Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…