»» Curiosity Mission To Determine Climate Change, Life On Mars, Says Texas A&M Prof

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - Climate change on Earth is always a big topic. Climate change on Mars could be even bigger.

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»» Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.

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»» Expedition 31 Crew Docks at the International Space Station

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - Expedition 31 crew members Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin were welcomed aboard the International Space Station after the hatches opened Thursday at 4:10 a.m. EDT.

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»» Image: Daphnis and Pan Perturb Saturn's Rings

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - Saturn's moons Daphnis and Pan demonstrate their effects on the planet's rings in this view from the Cassini spacecraft.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012 - Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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»» NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.

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»» Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the innermost planet's magnetosphere.

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»» Fuel For Black Holes

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared.

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»» A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded.

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»» Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - Joseph Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin blasted off for the International Space Station at 10:01 p.m. CDT Tuesday, May 14 (9:01 a.m. Baikonur time on May 15), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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»» Photo: Etosha Pan in Namibia As Seen From Space

Monday, May 14, 2012 - The Etosha Pan in Namibia is featured in this image photographed by a member on the ISS. This photograph shows the white, salt-covered floor of the northwest corner of the great dry lake in northern Namibia known as the Etosha Pan

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»» Olso Physicists Use 20 New Satellites to Forecast Space Weather

Monday, May 14, 2012 - Satellites are becoming increasingly important in communications and navigation. This makes us more vulnerable to the northern lights, especially within offshore and aviation.

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»» Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt

Monday, May 14, 2012 - A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.

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Monday, May 14, 2012 - After more than a decade in orbit, ESA's Proba-1 was showing its age. But a software fix to its startracker, radiation-impaired after surpassing its design lifetime fivefold, has returned the veteran Earth-observing microsatellite to full operation.

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