News > Sources > New Scientist Space News
New Scientist - The World's No. 1 Science and Technology News Service
Updated: 1 year 44 weeks ago
Shuttle mission to be most complex yet
Astronauts aboard the newly launched space shuttle Discovery will add onto and rewire the International Space Station in three high-stakes spacewalks
Space shuttle launch lights up night sky
After bad weather scuppered a launch attempt on Thursday, the space shuttle Discovery successfully blasts off on Saturday
Tsunami-like blast wave rips across the Sun
A rare blast wave roiled the surface of the Sun on Wednesday twisted magnetic fields may be to blame
Low cloud scrubs latest shuttle launch
NASA hopes to try again on Saturday to launch the shuttle on its mission to rewire the International Space Station
Despite looming rain showers, shuttle fuelling begins
NASA has started to fill the shuttle Discovery's external tank with 2 million litres of fuel for its planned launch today, despite the threat of rain
Weather the only hurdle for upcoming shuttle launch
NASA has determined that two glitches it recently discovered on the shuttle Discovery will not affect its scheduled launch on Thursday, but weather is another matter
Warming oceans produce less phytoplankton
The tiny plants underpin the ocean food chain and also help bury carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the deep ocean
Water flows on Mars, before our very eyes
Two dark gullies turned bright as NASA's now-lost Mars Global Surveyor looked on, suggesting liquid water still flows on the Red Planet
Timetable for Moon colony announced
NASA reveals its ambitious plans to set up a permanent outpost at one of the Moon's poles, and calls for international partners
Probe's powerful camera spots Vikings on Mars
The startlingly high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots about a dozen spacecraft on the Red Planet's surface
First negatively charged molecule found in space
The discovery suggests relatively large molecules may be able to capture extra electrons, but the exact mechanism is still unclear
Categories: News
Hacker charged for breaching NASA computers
The alleged leader of a group aimed at exposing computer security flaws faces up to 54 years in prison for hacking into machines at JPL and Goddard, among other sites
About this image
Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. Image has been modified.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is designed to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar System. An uninterrupted view of the Sun is achieved by operating SOHO from a permanent vantage point 1.5 million kilometers sunward of the Earth. SOHO was designed to observe the Sun continuously for at least two years.
- New quasar is the oldest yet
- Closing in on the gamma-ray sky
- Milky Way Black Hole May Be A Colossal 'Particle Accelerator'
- Cosmic Lighthouses: Astrophysicists Explain Differences In Brightness Of Supernova Explosions
- Universe Offers 'Eternal Feast,' Cosmologist Says
- Origin Of Darkest Galaxies In The Universe Elucidated
- Scientists Find High Energy Systems Hidden In 'Gas Cocoon'
- Astronomer Finds Closest Gravitational Lensing Galaxy
- First negatively charged molecule found in space
- Binary star pulsates with high-energy gamma rays
- Active galactic nuclei
- Gamma ray 'clock' found creating antimatter
- Astronomers Find First Ever Gamma Ray Clock
