What happens when your company succeeds in successfully launching a space craft twice within the alloted window to win the Ansari X Prize?  Well, in the case of Scaled Composite and their history making SpaceShipOne, an entrepreneur named Sir Richard Branson offers you a deal and ... [More]

The Hubble telescope has been a great boon to science, and it has given great service with only a little patching along the way to keep it working.  But recently a communications breakdown has left the platform out of work, and a scheduled repair mission set for October 14th has been postponed to at least next February. ... [More]

The International Space Station did a little house cleaning recently, and it decided that the Jules Verne ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) was just taking up too much space in the garage (not that the ISS actually has a garage).  So the European Space Agency worked out a way to take it ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day (click picture for larger image) "Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. The photograph, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, captures a small region within M17, a hotbed of star formation. ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day "A boulder-strewn field of red rocks stretches across the horizon in this self-portrait of Viking 2 on Mars' Utopian Plain. Fine particles of red dust have settled on spacecraft's surfaces. The same dust is responsible for Mars' salmon-colored sky as the particles hang, suspended in the atmosphere. ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day "This sweeping mosaic of Saturn's moon Enceladus provides broad regional context for the ultra-sharp, close-up views NASA's Cassini spacecraft acquired minutes earlier, during its flyby on Aug. 11, 2008. This false-color mosaic shows that coarse-grained ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning true-color picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603 on March 5, 1999 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This single view nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of stars, starting ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers. ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day  "A thin layer of water frost is visible on the ground around NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in this image taken by the Surface Stereo Imager at 6 a.m. on Sol 79 (August 14, 2008), the 79th Martian day after landing. The frost began to disappear shortly after 6 a. ... [More]

NASA Picture of the Day  "Above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. But, this period of maximum solar energy is past. On Sol 86, or the 86th Martian day after Phoenix landed on the Red planet, the sun fully set behind a slight rise to the north for about half an hour. ... [More]