NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the…
Countdown to Shuttle return to flight
Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon see the Shuttle blasting off…
Proba Yielding Beautiful Results
In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA’s smallest Earth Observation satellite is making…
Earth’s Magnetic Field
The Japanese satellite Akebono, launched in 1989, has been at the centre of major discoveries about…
Sand Dunes from Space
This Envisat image shows two huge sand dune seas in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya,…
FIRST CENTENNIAL CHALLENGES
NASA and its partner, the Spaceward Foundation, today announced prizes totaling $400,000 for four prize competitions,…
SOOT MAY BE CHANGING THE ARCTIC
NASA continues to explore the impact of black carbon or soot on the Earth’s climate. NASA…
NEW AGE OF PLANETARY SCIENCE
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured the light, for the first time, from two known planets orbiting…
Large Space Simulator
A new ‘specimen access device’ (SPAD) to allow safe and fast access to spacecraft being tested…
Space debris: assessing the risk
Assessing the risk that space debris pose to operational spacecraft and satellites is a challenge and…