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Station Commander Remotely Docks Supply Ship |
| Space station commander Sergei Krikalev took over manual control of an approaching Russian supply ship this evening [June 18] and remotely guided the robotic craft to a
picture-perfect docking after problems prevented an automatic linkup - Spaceflight Now |
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European Experiments Back On Earth With Successful Conclusion Of Foton-M2 Mission |
| The re-entry module of the Foton-M2 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 16 days made a successful landing today [June 16] - ESA |
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New Type Of Exoplanet: A Hybrid Earth-Uranus |
| After three years of maintaining secrecy while collecting more and more evidence, a team of astronomers today [June 13] announced finding an entirely new type of planet orbiting a dim star 15 light-years away - Sky and Telescope |
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Smooth Deployment For Second MARSIS Antenna Boom |
| The second 20-metre antenna boom of the MARSIS instrument on board Mars Express was successfully – and smoothly – deployed, confirmed today [June 16] by the ground team at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre - ESA |
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Neutrino Ripples Spotted In Space |
| Astronomers have spotted a signature of neutrinos created just seconds after the Big Bang. The find supports current models of the origins of our Universe, and may provide a glimpse of its birth - Nature |
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Charging Up The Universe |
| The timing of the universe's reionization left its mark on the Milky Way's stellar halo, say astronomers in Australia and Japan - Astronomy |
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SMA Confirms Proto-Planetary Systems Are Common In The Galaxy |
| Meeting this week in Cambridge, Mass., astronomers using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed, for the first time, that many of the objects termed "proplyds" found in the Orion Nebula do have sufficient material to form new planetary systems like our own - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
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Space Shuttle Discovery Successfully Rolls Back To Launch Pad |
| With new safety modifications, the Space Shuttle Discovery is back at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla - NASA |
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Magma Oceans Covered Early Asteroids |
| New findings published in the latest issue of the journal Nature suggest that at least two of our solar system's major asteroids experienced widespread melting with more than
50 percent of each object becoming liquid - Scientific American |
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NASA Astronaut Gives First Congressional Testimony From Space |
| NASA's astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) made history today [June 14] becoming the first to testify before Congress while in orbit - NASA |
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