Spirit and Opportunity, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, are global hits: specifically, they’re 6.53 billion hits, more…
COSMIC MOBY DICK
Like the massive white whale in Herman Melville’s 1851 classic “Moby Dick,” comets have long been…
GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE
Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles…
SORCE SATELLITE CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ON ORBIT
Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has…
GIANT BLACK HOLE RIPS APART STAR
Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black…
Rosetta – a space sophisticate
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will be getting under way in February 2004. The Rosetta…
Weather eye on Europe
ESA’s new Weather Today website allows you to access data from space relied upon by weather…
X-43A FLIGHT DELAYED
The flight of NASA’s X-43A has been postponed, due to an incident with the rudder actuator…
ESA Mars Express calls up NASA Spirit Rover
A pioneering demonstration of communications between the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter and NASA’s Mars…
Olympus Mons – the caldera in close-up
View from overhead of the complex caldera (summit crater) at the summit of Olympus Mons on…