ISS Commander Mike Foale speaks to students

International Space Station Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale, KB5UAC, has told students at The King’s School…

2004 SPACE STATION CREWS NAMED

NASA and its International Partners have assigned new crews to fly to the International Space Station…

EGNOS improves navigation safety

The fog today is hanging heavy on the Yangtze River making conditions for navigation rather difficult,…

NASA BUDGET AND VISION DETAILS

NASA unveiled its budget request to Congress Tuesday with the release of two companion documents: the…

Oxygen and carbon discovered

The well-known extrasolar planet HD 209458b, provisionally nicknamed ‘Osiris’, has surprised astronomers again. Oxygen and carbon…

MARS LANDMARKS TO HONOR COLUMBIA CREW

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced the Martian hills, located east of the Spirit Mars Exploration…

Getting together in deep space

The Rosetta space probe’s long trek to Comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko The countdown to Rosetta’s rendezvous in…

SHUTTLE COLUMBIA MEMORIAL

The families of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 crew and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe unveiled a…

X-ray shout echoing through space

ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with…

Artificial island arises off Dubai

The rapidly changing face of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is portrayed by contrasting Synthetic…