Team Returning Orbiter to Duty After Computer Swap

Artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...
Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...
Hubble and Chandra Discover Dark Matter Is Not as Sticky as Once Thought

This collage shows images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...
Prototype 'nanoneedles' generate new blood vessels in mice: Scientists have developed tiny 'nanoneedles' that have successfully prompted parts of the body to generate new blood vessels, in a trial in mice

The image shows a single human cell (brown) on a bed of nanoneedles (blue).
Rover Amnesia Event Follows Latest Memory Reformatting

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has extended its robotic arm for studying a light-toned rock target called "...
Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons

After a couple of years in high-inclination orbits that limited its ability to encounter Saturn's moons
EU successfully launches two Galileo satellites
Galileo, the EU's satellite navigation programme, has just placed two more satellites into orbit. The lift-off took place on 27 March at 22.46 CET from the European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. We have received signals proving that they...