Father’s Day came early for astronaut Mike Fincke, 225 miles in space aboard the International Space…
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Cassini-Huygens at Saturn !
The Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion events can be viewed at http://saturn.esa.int Significant event times: 03:35 –…
CASSINI OPENS A COSMIC TIME CAPSULE
Like a woolly mammoth trapped in Arctic ice, Saturn’s small moon Phoebe may be a frozen…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-16
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
Rosetta’s self-portrait
ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distance of 35 million kilometres from…
SURPRISING ANATOMY OF A COMET
Findings from a historic encounter between NASA’s Stardust spacecraft and a comet revealed much stranger findings…
REMOTE HEALTH MONITORS
A lightweight, portable device developed by NASA scientists is enabling physicians to monitor the health and…
SMART-1 views Europe
The first picture of Earth taken by the SMART-1 spacecraft on 21 May 2004 from a…
HURRICANES MAY HELP PLANKTON BLOOM
Whenever a hurricane races across the Atlantic Ocean, chances are phytoplankton will bloom behind it. According…
Did comets flood Earths oceans?
Did the Earth form with water locked into its rocks, which then gradually leaked out over…