Photo: Wow!....Now THIS is a Comet!!

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"Near its closest approach to planet Earth, comet SWAN brightened unexpectedly earlier this week. Telescopic observers also noticed dramatic changes in the comet's colorful coma and tail, seen in this view recorded on October 25th."

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Discovery of gamma rays from the edge of a black hole!

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"The astrophysicists of the international H.E.S.S. collaboration report the discovery of fast variability in very-high-energy gamma rays from the giant elliptical galaxy M 87. The detection of these gamma-ray photons - with energies more than a million million times the energy of visible light from one of the most famous extragalactic objects."

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Was Mars Life Discovered 30 Years Ago?

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"A positive on one experiment intended to determine if the red planet harbored life was considered false mostly because the accepted thinking of that time was that nothing would be found. Now, scientists who are more open to the idea of life on mars are taking another look at the results."

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NASA Posts Panorama To Celebrate Rover's 1,000th Martian Day

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"Oct. 26, 2006, marks Spirit's 1,000th sol of what was planned as a 90-sol mission. (A sol is a Martian day, which lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). The rover has lived through the most challenging part of its second Martian winter.Happy Birthday!"

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NASA Seeks Volunteers to Spend 3 Weeks in Bed (It’s Tougher Than You Think)

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""NASA?s Johnson Space Center is conducting experiments on counteracting the effects of weightlessness. To simulate a zero-gravity environment, volunteers lie down for three weeks on beds with their feet about five inches higher than their heads. They do not get up: they eat propped on an elbow, use bedpans and shower lying down on""

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Russia Can Repel Asteroids to Save Earth

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"Russia is prepared to repel asteroids to save Earth "if necessary," deputy head of the Russian space agency Viktor Remishevsky said Tuesday, ITAR-TASS news agency reported."

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International Space Station Status Report...

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""A shipment of supplies began its journey to the International Space Station Monday as the ISS Progress 23 cargo ship was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...""

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Space Shuttle Launch as seen from ISS, 220 miles up.

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"An amazing picture of the Space Shuttle, launching from Florida, as seen out the window of the International Space Station. A must see!"

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Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Ends With a Crash

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"Armadillo Aerospace's third attempt to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge ended with a crash, dashing its hopes of winning the $350,000 prize. The team's rocket had 2.5 hours to lift off at one launch pad and hover for 90 seconds at an altitude of 50 metres as it moved to a second launch pad 100 metres away."

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Cydonia's 'Face on Mars' in 3D animation

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"Recently, ESA's Mars Express delivered photos of the famous 'Face on Mars' in the Cydonia region. The High Resolution Stereo Camera images are some of the most spectacular views of the Red Planet ever taken. Now, there's a stunning 3D animation of the area."

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The Universe on a String

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"Brian Greene defends string theory against recent criticism."

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Astronauts offer etiquette lessons to space tourists

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"Don't look directly at the Sun. Don't play with your grape juice. And don't hog prime viewing space at the windows. This was the advice several astronauts and space doctors gave to prospective space tourists on Tuesday"

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NASA is having a Space Elevator contest. Top prize is $400,000

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"With $400,000 in NASA-provided prize money at stake, 16 teams have gathered this week in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the second annual Space Elevator Games as part of the X Prize Cup"

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Most amazing image of Saturn (and Earth) ... Ever!

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"In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear ..."

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A giant hop for robot-kind

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"As Nasa's Martian robot, Opportunity, wheels its way around the edge of the Victoria crater, a new breed of automaton is being developed that could provide a great leap forward, literally, in robotic exploration."

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Cool Picture of the International Space Station silhouetted by the Moon

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"On October 6th, a nearly full perigee Moon shone in Earth's night sky. The bright moonlight, accurate planning, and proper equipment resulted in this amazing composite featuring sharp silhouettes of the International Space Station (ISS) as it rapidly crossed (right to left) in front of the lunar disk."

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Earth has a

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"Title says it all. Interresting read. Read on"

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Awesome Photos of the Sun (updated frequently)

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"Don't look directly at the sun or you'll burn out your retinas. Instead, look at this."

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Mapping Mars

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"So many probes have been taking pictures of the Red Planet lately that it's easy to be jaded--but that wasn't the case last week, when not one but two missions reached a major milestone. The Opportunity rover began taking close-ups from the edge of Victoria Crater, blasted by an ancient impact. Opportunity may soon descend into this hole."

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Edge of black hole

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"NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never before seen with such precision."

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New Bush Space Policy Unveiled

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"U.S. President George W. Bush has authorized a sweeping new national space policy, green-lighting an overarching national policy that governs the conduct of America?s space activities."

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Mug Shots of Supernovas Reveal Two Key Findings

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"Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have observed two dozen recent star explosions, called supernovae, quickly after the event and have discovered never-before-seen properties, some of which run counter to prevailing theories."

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NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black Holes

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"NASA scientists using the Swift satellite have conducted the first complete census of galaxies with active, central black holes, a project that scanned the entire sky several times over a nine-month period."

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New evidence indicates the universe egg-shaped

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"Using a microwave probe of U.S. space agency NASA, scientists said they have evidence that the universe has a shape somewhat akin to an egg, rather than the expected round."

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Cluster muscles back from deep hibernation

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"On 15 September, flight controllers at ESA's Space Operations Centre watched tensely as 'Rumba', No. 1 in the four-spacecraft Cluster fleet, was switched into a low-power, deep hibernation mode. The aim was to survive a challenging eclipse."

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NASA's Mars Rover and Orbiter Team Examines Victoria Crater

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"NASA's long-lived robotic rover Opportunity is beginning to explore layered rocks in cliffs ringing the massive Victoria crater on Mars. The image above is a view of the Opportunity rover, taken from space by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter."

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Space Image of the Day: Antarctic Ozone Hole

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"This image from September 29, 2006, shows the ozone concentration in the stratosphere above the South Pole observed by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. Greens and yellows show areas with the highest ozone amounts, while blues and purples show where ozone amounts are lowest."

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Rocket Monopoly Approved: Boeing-Lockheed Likely to Increase Costs

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"U.S. antitrust authorities yesterday approved a plan by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. to merge their government rocket businesses, creating a monopoly in a multibillion-dollar market that the Federal Trade Commission acknowledged will probably lead to higher prices and lower quality."

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