New York from space

An Envisat view of the East Coast of the United States including the city of New…

SHUTTLE FUEL TANK

Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…

Growing lettuce for Mars, Arctic style

The 2005 field season on Devon Island has been the smoothest since the start of the…

BIG BABY GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE

Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to “weigh”…

The Next Giant Space Telescope

The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded a $26.2-million contract to the Space and Technology Group of…

PLUTO SPACE PROBE

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations…

SMART-1 set for more lunar science

ESA’s SMART-1 mission in orbit around the Moon has had its scientific lifetime extended by ingenious…

Gourmet space dinner on Greenland icecap

French explorers Olivier Pezeron and Arnaud Fauvet enjoyed gourmet space food on their 20-day Greenland expedition…

World’s Largest Space Mirror

Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the…

Mars Express mission extended

ESA’s Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from…