SPACE.com - NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it
prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than
ever before.
AFP - Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov brandished a small toy duck Friday as he and his crewmates prepared to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in April.
AFP - The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday said it had set the date of April 8 for the delayed launch of CryoSat-2, a satellite designed to see how Earth's ice sheets react to climate change.
SPACE.com - NASA's
sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been used to locate vintage
space hardware lobbed to the moon in the 1970s by the former Soviet Union.
Reuters - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday.
SPACE.com - The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary
decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown
red material and some tricky dynamic forces that shape them.
SPACE.com - The
Hubble Space Telescope has long been an icon of astronomy with $10 billion
spent over two decades to keep it peering deep into the
cosmos. Now a new IMAX film is taking that space icon and turning it into a 3D
star.
AP - Astronauts from the United States and Russia landed safely in northern Kazakhstan's chilly steppes on Thursday after spending almost six months on the International Space Station.
SPACE.com - Two astronauts, one
American and the other Russian, returned to Earth Thursday from the
International Space Station and were greeted with freezing temperatures and
snow at their Central Asian landing site.
SPACE.com - If wearing green and watching a parade isn't enough for you
this St. Patrick's Day, NASA has unveiled the emerald day's Irish homeland as
it appears from space.
LiveScience.com - A cushioning device originally intended for space vehicles is now being
tested by NASA on helicopters that have to make crash landings.
Researchers believe this so-called deployable energy absorber (DEA)
could save lives and helicopters in the near future.
AFP - Marking a further step in the hunt for worlds orbiting other stars, astronomers on Wednesday said they had found a cool planet the size of Jupiter that encircles a sun at searing proximity.
SPACE.com - Enterprise,
NASA's first space shuttle prototype, which in 1985 was delivered to
the Smithsonian as a museum piece after proving that a
winged spacecraft could land safely as a glider, is now being readied
by the space agency for what is planned to be its final ferry flight atop
a modified Boeing 747 jetliner.
Reuters - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended the U.S. space agency's budget on Tuesday and said its focus on commercial space transportation would provide "incredible opportunities" for U.S. companies.
SPACE.com - A new snapshot from NASA's latest space telescope has
revealed a vast cloud in deep space that is brimming with new stars inside flower-like wisps of interstellar dust.
SPACE.com - NEW YORK — Top space experts on Monday bemoaned the lack of a
clear destination in the new NASA space plan proposed by President Barack
Obama, but they often disagreed on what that new goal should be.
SPACE.com - The field of commercial spaceflight is ripe with younger
companies hoping to make it big with new spaceships, but Orbital Sciences is
drawing on nearly 30 years of rocket-launching experience for its effort to
build a new vehicle capable of stocking up the International Space Station.
SPACE.com - NASA engineers are testing a leaky helium valve on the
space shuttle Discovery to see if the shuttle can still launch to the
International Space Station next month or if it must stand down for repairs.
SPACE.com - New
photos of the Mars' moon Phobos reveal the Martian satellite as a strange, potato-shaped
moon, and show potential landing zones being considered for a future robotic
probe.