The Soyuz spacecraft with the 13th International Space Station crew, Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA Science Officer Jeffrey Williams, docked with the orbiting
laboratory at 11:19 p.m. EST Friday [Mar. 31st]
- NASA
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects
within one of Saturn's rings alone - NASA/JPL
These color maps of Jupiter were constructed from images taken by the narrow-angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft
neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet
- NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
A team of astronomers from Boston University’s Institute for Astrophysical Research has produced the clearest map to-date of the giant gas clouds in the Milky Way that serve as the birthplaces of stars - Boston University
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter yesterday [Mar. 30th] began a crucial six-month campaign to gradually shrink its orbit into the best geometry for the mission's science work - NASA/JPL
Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic energy as they travelled through Earth’s night-time shadow on 5 August 2004 - ESA
NASA senior management announced a decision Monday [Mar. 27th] to reinstate the Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two major asteroids. Dawn had been canceled because of technical problems and cost overruns - NASA
The regular movement of our solar system above and below the galactic plane matches dips in biodiversity – deadly cosmic rays may be to blame - New Scientist
NASA gave people a front row seat to today's [Mar. 28th] total solar eclipse, thanks to a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley and the Exploratorium. A streaming webcast brought the eclipse -- visible along a path from South America to Africa to Asia -- to schools and museums and computer desktops worldwide - NASA
The satellite has lost its temperature control - its operators will now move to destroy it before it dies completely and becomes space junk - New Scientist