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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:18 GMT
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.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:45:48 GMT

Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov displays a toy duck, during a press conference outside Moscow in Star City. The tiny toy was picked out by his daughter as an impromptu 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.


Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:09:18 GMT

A massive iceberg stretches across McMurdo Sound in Antartica. The European Space Agency (ESA) 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.(AFP/HO/File/Josh Landis)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.


Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:30:57 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:02:23 GMT

The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 space capsule, carrying a Expedition 22 U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station, lands near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan March 18, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/Bill IngallsReuters - 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.


Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:30:41 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:14 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:56:35 GMT

The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 space capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev  touches down not far from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk, Thursday, March 18, 2010. 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.(AP Photo/Alexander Nemenov, Pool)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.


Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:45 GMT
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.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:33:54 GMT
AP - NASA says Soyuz spacecraft with US, Russian astronauts has landed safely in Kazakhstan.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:46:07 GMT
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.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:35:23 GMT
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.
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:14:03 GMT

Artistic impression of the extrasolar planet CoRoT-9b, with its central star in the background.(AFP/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)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.


Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:15:59 GMT
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.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:39 GMT
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.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:00:53 GMT
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.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:00:21 GMT
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.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:02:01 GMT
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.
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:31:45 GMT
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.
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:47:53 GMT
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.
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