European and Chinese space cooperation

China’s Prime Minister Jiabao Wen visited ESA’s research and technology centre (ESTEC), in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.…

EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEMS

Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided…

ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O’KEEFE RESIGNS

Administrator Sean O’Keefe, who over the past three years led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…

ISS STATUS REPORT UPDATE: SS04-044

International Space Station crewmembers this week continued research and maintenance activities and prepared for arrival of…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-041

The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…

Travel to Mars in your dreams?

Can you imagine spending eight weeks in bed? ESA is looking for female volunteers who are…

FAMED B-52B “MOTHERSHIP” RETIRING

After nearly a half-century of dropping advanced flight research vehicles instead of bombs, NASA is retiring…

Canadian Space News

The Canadian space science feature articles for December are now online. This month, read about the…

Huygens begins its final journey to Titan

One year after Mars Express’ arrival at Mars, the mighty rules of celestial mechanics have again…

Aid Workers Get Aid From Orbit

It is hard to overstate the scale of the humanitarian emergency unfolding in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur…