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Rosetta probe flies by old 'diamond in the sky'The comet-chasing craft flew by asteroid Steins, revealing its diamond shape - but a glitch prevented it from taking high-resolution images
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Rosetta probe flies by 'diamond in the sky'
The comet-chasing craft flew by asteroid Steins, revealing its diamond shape - but a glitch prevented it from taking high-resolution imagesBreaking News - 06 September 2008Mars lander to squirrel away soil in advance of winter
While it still has plenty of solar power, the Phoenix probe will try to quickly stockpile soil samples for later studyBreaking News - 05 September 2008Europe's first cargo ship to undock from space station
The Jules Verne ATV, which has acted as an extra bedroom and washroom on the station, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in three weeksBreaking News - 05 September 2008Distant object found orbiting Sun backwards
Astronomers have found the first object in the icy Kuiper belt that orbits the Sun backwards compared to the planetsBreaking News - 05 September 2008Space shuttle for Hubble mission rolled to launch pad
NASA hauled the space shuttle Atlantis to its seaside launch pad on Thursday, hopeful a trio of storms will steer clear of the siteBreaking News - 05 September 2008Laser 'comb' used to disentangle Sun's light
A 'comb' made of laser light has taken a key step from the laboratory to the observatory – one day it could help find other EarthsBreaking News - 04 September 2008Rosetta probe prepares to buzz tiny asteroid
On Friday, Europe's comet-chasing spacecraft will fly by asteroid Steins, its first scientific target since launching four years agoBreaking News - 04 September 2008If NASA is to keep flying the shuttle, it needs money
As I wrote a few weeks ago, NASA has a problem. Officially there will be no US manned spaceflights between the shuttle's retirement (set for 2010) and the delivery of its replacement, Ares/Orion (set for 2015, perhaps optimistically). But the...Blog - 04 September 2008Interstellar 'slowball' could have carried seeds of life
The amount of material transferred between stars could be greater than we thought if the stuff travelled slowly enoughNews - 04 September 2008Milky Way's black hole gets extreme close-up
Using linked radio telescopes around the world, astronomers are zeroing in on the galaxy's most elusive inhabitantBreaking News - 03 September 2008
