ESA’s Cluster mission has revealed a new creation mechanism of ‘killer electrons’ – highly energetic electrons…
NEW RINGS AND MOONS AROUND URANUS
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed a new pair of rings around Uranus and two new, small…
NASA’S Top Space stories of 2005
NASA completed a successful year of milestones and discoveries in 2005 as the agency begins to…
Students talk with ISS
International Space Station Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, spoke recently via ham radio with cadets…
Evidence found for Beagle 2 location
The news that Beagle 2 may have been spotted on the surface of Mars in the…
Mission to Mars via Antarctica
A few weeks before leaving for the Antarctic Concordia Station, the Italian-French crew that will spend…
Vegas Zefiro 9 engine
Flames, smoke and a deafening noise accompanied the first firing test of Vega’s Zefiro 9 third-stage…
Sahara’s edge studied from ground, air and Space
An international team worked on the verge of the Sahara to gather data on the ground…
Rome from Space
The River Tiber flows through the historic centre of Rome, seen in high-resolution detail by France’s…
Hot, Massive Galaxy Halos
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have found very hot gaseous haloes around a multitude of spiral…