A satellite surveillance zone within the southern Indian Ocean is helping protect the endangered Patagonian toothfish…
Liftoff for Ariane 5 ECA
On November 17, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana…
Tomatosphere
Tomato Seeds in Students’ Hands, After 18 Months in Space The 400,000 tomato seeds that were…
Supergiant X-ray Binary Stars
ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary…
New ISS Education Resource
The ISS Education Team today launches a new product: the ISS Education Kit on the web.…
B-15A iceberg breaking up
After five years of being the world’s largest free-floating object, the B-15A iceberg has finally broken…
Meteorites in Antarctica
Dr. Gordon Osinski, scientist at the Canadian Space Agency’s Planetary Exploration and Space Astronomy division, has…
Stellar Gas
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming…
Gobi Desert from Space
This Proba image shows numerous small lakes in the otherwise arid environment of the Gobi Desert…
ISS Commander Trying for Record
ISS Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has proven to be one of the more active…