NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research recently selected 22 researchers to receive grants of up…
Desert markings imaged from orbit
Visible from ESA’s Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many…
MARS ON EARTH
Spirit and Opportunity, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, are global hits: specifically, they’re 6.53 billion hits, more…
COSMIC MOBY DICK
Like the massive white whale in Herman Melville’s 1851 classic “Moby Dick,” comets have long been…
GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE
Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles…
SORCE SATELLITE CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ON ORBIT
Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has…
GIANT BLACK HOLE RIPS APART STAR
Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black…
Rosetta – a space sophisticate
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will be getting under way in February 2004. The Rosetta…
Weather eye on Europe
ESA’s new Weather Today website allows you to access data from space relied upon by weather…
X-43A FLIGHT DELAYED
The flight of NASA’s X-43A has been postponed, due to an incident with the rudder actuator…