NASA encourages interested individuals to participate in agency advisory activities. To encourage participation, and to ensure…
CHIPS BEGINS INTERSTELLAR SEARCH
The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite is living up to the adage “good things…
NASA ENGINEERS TEST WRIGHT STUFF
It triggers the imagination. What would aviation pioneer Orville Wright think about a reproduction of his…
ESA reschedules Soyuz flights
The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to six-month postponements of the Soyuz flights by two…
Envisat celebrates first anniversary in space
One year ago, the largest and most sophisticated Earth observation satellite ever built blazed a fiery…
CASSINI REVEALS MASSIVE JUPITER GAS CLOUD
Using a sensitive new imaging instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, researchers have discovered a large and…
COCOON FOUND INSIDE THE BLACK WIDOW’S WEB
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory image of the mysterious “Black Widow” pulsar reveals the first direct evidence…
REMNANTS OF ANCIENT STARS IN EARTH’S UPPER ATMOSPHERE
NASA researchers believe they have found bits of ancient stars in small particles gathered in the…
A step closer to safer aviation in Africa
Between 24 and 26 February, a number of trial flights into Dakar using the EGNOS (European…
ER-2 AIRCRAFT SEARCHES COLUMBIA’S PATH FOR DEBRIS
A NASA high-altitude research aircraft flew over portions of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s flight path Saturday.…