A little over one year ago, on 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe reached the upper…
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NASA loans Rocket Engine to Rocketplane
NASA is loaning a rocket engine to Rocketplane Limited, Inc. of Oklahoma City as part of…
Poyang Lake from Space
This Envisat image shows the patchy waters of Poyang Lake (Poyang Hu) in winter. In summer…
Black Holes Creating Havoc
Black holes are creating havoc in unsuspected places, according to a new study of images of…
ESA service warns asthma sufferers
We all wonder what is in the air for 2006 – but for people with asthma…
Kliuchevskoi Volcano from Space
At 4835 metres high, the snow-dusted peak of the Kliuchevskoi volcano casts a clear shadow in…
Magnetic Field Mission Ends
NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a…
Satellites see Solar Wind
A flotilla of space-weather satellites ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s ACE and Wind – observed for…
Polaris – a Triple Star
By stretching the capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers photographed the close…
Supernova rate for Milky Way
Using ESA’s Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the production…