»» 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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»» NASA's Inconsistent Support of the International Space Apps Challenge

Sunday, May 13, 2012 - Events like this app challenge are not the way NASA tends to do business. According to NASA's Open Government Initiative office, a total 2,083 people participated in this event in one way or another.

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»» Please Help Get "An Article of Hope" on PBS and in Classrooms

Saturday, May 12, 2012 - It took 7-years to make the documentary. We did it by raising a little money here, borrowing a little more money there, and a lot of love and un-reimbursed time from the director.

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»» Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula

Friday, May 11, 2012 - The starry mist streaking across this image obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the central part of the dwarf galaxy known as NGC 2366.

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»» Wanted: doctors who are not afraid of the dark

Friday, May 11, 2012 - Do you have a medical degree and would like to work in an almost-out-of-this-world environment? ESA is sponsoring a crewmember with a medical background to spend the Antarctic winter of 2013 in the Concordia research station.

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»» Dusty Stellar Nurseries from the Dark Side of a Galaxy

Friday, May 11, 2012 - One of the world's most powerful cameras, SCUBA-2 is producing its first detailed images of our neighbouring galaxies, revealing previously undetected vast pockets of star formation where the next generation of stars is being created.

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»» Spectacular Image: Titan and Saturn

Friday, May 11, 2012 - This image was taken on May 06, 2012 and received on Earth May 07, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Titan at approximately 475,131 miles (764,649 kilometers) away.

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»» Call for Media: Europe's SpaceLab finalists link up with space and meet astronauts

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - Europe's finalists in the Space Lab challenge will join astronauts, scientists and Google managers at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne on 16 May to discuss their experiment ideas and call ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on the ISS.

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»» Ultra-cool Companion Helps Reveal Giant Planets

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium.

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