North Sentinel Island

A cloudy day on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, home to the last small…

EARTH’S ENERGY IS OUT OF BALANCE?

Scientists have concluded more energy is being absorbed from the sun than is emitted back to…

ISS Astronaut Speaks

International Space Station Expedition 9 crew member Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, told a US Senate subcommittee last…

Tithonium Chasma up close

These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…

Student Experiments

NASA has selected students from nine schools around the country to prepare and fly their experiments…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS05-022

The new crew members of the International Space Station completed their first full work week today.…

Space tech comes down to Earth

It is doubtful whether engineers working on the accelerometers used in Ariane launchers envisaged that one…

ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY

NASA will use a new human centrifuge to explore artificial gravity as a way to counter…

Earths gravity scar

A new ESA study predicts that the devastating Sumatran earthquake, which resulted in the tragic tsunami…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S05-016

NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. Discovery (OV-103)…