Rhea Captured By Cassini
In this photo, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape, with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background.
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NASA Launches IBEX — Let the Mapping Begin
All is well after a smooth countdown and climb toward space, NASA's IBEX spacecraft is in orbit after launching from the Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. IBEX was launched aboard a Pegasus rocket dropped from under the wing of an L-1011 aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreFermi Finds Gamma-Ray Blinker
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays.
Read MoreLockheed Martin Protects MSL From All Sorts Of Potential Calamities
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered the backshell for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Read MoreCassini Sees Saturn’s Southern Section
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. In this photo, the C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb.
Read MorePlenty To Look At + Examine As ESA’s Mars Express Gets Closer To Phobos
European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ‘rubble pile’, rather than a single solid object.
Read MoreU.K. Adds Spectrometer To India’s First Moon Mission
Chandrayaan-1 is the first lunar mission from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and is designed to orbit the Moon and carries radar and particle detectors as well as instruments that will make observations in the visible, near infrared, and X-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Read MoreNASA’s MESSENGER Is A Speed Burner
Shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, MESSENGER reached its greatest speed relative to the Sun. The spacecraft, nearly 70 percent closer to the Sun than Earth, was traveling nearly 140,880 miles per hour (62.979 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun.
Read MoreIBEX To Seek Interstellar Boundary Goodies
The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space will be launched on Sunday, October 19, at 1:48 p.m. EDT.
Read MoreGamma-Ray Bursts Caught By ESA’s Integral
Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky.
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