Two exoplanets smaller than Saturn found | Source of Earth's 'hum' revealed (background-free oscillation) | MPL disaster report calls premature engine shutdown, crash "probable" cause of loss | Mars Program Assessment report outlines route to success | Mars landing in 2001 called off | Finding life on Mars could cause the end of exploration | Are there 'nannobes' or not? | IMAGE launched: Making 'pictures' of the magnetosphere | ACRIMSAT broken | A review of the new SOHO CD-ROM
Uncontrolled reentry planned for Iridium satellites | A spectacular Subaru picture of M 82 | Quake shows that 'anomalous pulsars' (AXP) are neutron stars, too | Dragon's Egg | Are U.S. space launches too safe? (Streamlining Space Launch Range Safety) | "Warranty" for the ISS running out | First privately financed Mir launch set for April 4 | Trouble during simulated stay on space station | Series of glitches mars amateur space shot | Deep Space One's new software will be tested now | Japan's space program in disarray | Battle against light pollution intensifies in Spain | Noctilucent Clouds as seen from Austria | British Aerospace believes in anti-gravity (Podkletnov)
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory doomed: to be de-orbited around June 3rd! | A new class of gamma-ray sources (EGRET) | NASA vehemently denies allegations of MPL cover-up | Winter Clouds over the North Martian Polar Cap (MOLA) | Glaciers on Mars? | Amateur astronomers excited by close asteroid (2000 EW70) | Fusion of White Ovals on Jupiter under way!
Ariane 5's 5th mission a full success | Sea Launch assembles Review Board | A giant seaplane could launch vehicles into space (ekranoplan) | Another amateur space launch attempt | Amateur rocket altitude record in the UK | Ultra Low Frequency waves within Jupiter's middle magnetosphere | Pioneer 5 & Ranger 9 & Tiros 1 | "Cape Canaveral" hat gotten yet another name | JPL damages HESSI satellite during shake test! | 13 free-floating planets in the Orion Nebula | Anarchy in the heart of the Sun (neutrino flavors) | EU approves "Astrium" | A repair kit for holes in the ISS | Frustrated Iridium users speak out | La Nina doesn't go away | New SRTM view (Kamchatka) | RHIC to be turned on
Iridium folds, all 74 satellites to be wrecked | Iridium deorbit as an opportunity for science? | Observe the Iridium satellites flare | XMM-Newton handed over to the astronomers | Type 2 quasar | New discoveries about the Leonids show amateur astronomy at its best (Radebeul) | 'Yukon meteorite' promises rare insights | More striking NEAR images | Close asteroid approach makes some waves (2000 EW70) | Calcium found in Mercury's atmosphere | Sulfur molecules around Io | The Vikings might have overlooked organic traces on Mars | Mars in-situ propellant production experiment | "Smart bombs" for Mars?
Again defective seals found in shuttle, STS-101 slips to April 17 | NASA Looking at Alternatives to ISS Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) | Actor officially off the Mir mission | Sea Launch failure blamed on Zenit's second stage | A broken blade brought down Japan's H-2 rocket | Second Fregat test flight again a succes | Buckyballs may contain ET gases | A weird hypothesis about a mass extinction 35 Myr ago | Weird 'skybeam' pollutes Seattle skies (Space Needle) | Call to save Meudon's great telescope | Gemini mirror #2 arrives in Chile
Point the HST at your favorite target! | Colorful gas jets from a group of young stars (HH 111) | JPL awards 4 design contracts for the Terrestrial Planet Finder | First full-scale mock-up for Planck | Milky Way gobbling up smaller galaxies | Dusty spirals around many galactic centers | Central Engines' mass correlates with age | 'Rocket-cam' sees Globalstar satellites flying free in space | Another budget battle ahead for NASA? | "NASA's Changing Fortunes" | Ikonos images show Pakistani nuclear efforts | Dispute over 1 meter satellite image access | Radar satellites as an earthquake evaluation tool | One more picture from the SRTM (Miquelon and Saint Pierre) | Solar cells with 40 percent efficiency | Sunset on the South Pole | Here comes urban heat | 35 years ago - the first spacewalk or EVA | Alan Shepard gets a statue | NASA staff getting too old
SeaLaunch fails - first ICO satellite destroyed! | Study raises safety matters for the Shuttle | Unpublished NASA report says all-woman flight isn't necessary | Another Proton flies, too | Kazakhstan may demand space launch fee from Russia | The heliosphere is tilted | Cluster quartet ready for trip to Baikonur | Poor communication, teamwork doomed the MCO | Mars rovers | Gravity Probe B faces crucial test this summer | China to send space capsule to Mir? | Boeing offers to pay for the lost ISS tanks | Software glitch shuts down X-33 engine testing | 100th Delta booster rolls out | India's lunar orbiter | The Saturn V blueprints are not lost | "Eclipse victim" can see again
SOHO "sees through the Sun" with novel technique | Plastic 'coat' could shield satellites | IMAGE launch now set for March 25 | NASA considers launch to Pluto already in 2003! | ESA short-lists flexi missions, including exotic physics experiments | Milestone for NEAP? | GOME-2 | SCISAT-1 | NASA confirms Galileo's "Millennium Mission" | Storm collision on Jupiter begins | "Planets in a test tube" experiment (Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell) | The Cassini-Huygens Journal #8 | Observational discovery of cosmic astigmatism caused by Dark Matter in the Universe | How the Dark Matter detectors couldn't agree
Does Al Gore remember ...? | "GoreSat" Triana has a scientific value | X-33 program "on the verge of failure" | NASA wants ideas for its Future Space Transportation plan | Is Boeing's AirLaunch a good idea? | Dwarf galaxies can cook their own molecules | "Mission to Mars" movie "unpalatable"? | MGS MOC shows differences between the Martian poles | MGS TES surveys Mars' mineral composition | New topographic shade maps of Mars | MGS MOC revisits site seen by Mariner 7 | Iridium about to fall - and the 66 satellites, too! | The case for a giant radio telescope (SKA) | Meanwhile astronomers vow to save the "12 meter" radio telescope (Kitt Peak) | Antenna damaged - and repaired - on Atlantis | No paying Mir visitors in sight | ISS chief engineer happy after visit to Proton plant | Hubble surveys 27 Planetary Nebulae in the LMC | Do we have to be afraid of Eta Carinae | China seeks Russian help with own space station | Restoration of Liberty Bell 7 | Earth cooler after Mayon eruption? | "My 40 years of SETI" | New Hayden can make one's "brain hurt"
NEAR in a 200 km orbit - "now the fun starts" | Crash plan for Galileo? | Who's going to stop Pioneer 10? | 100 000 years of impacts simulated (Michael Paine) | New NEO telescope in Japan | Armageddon - the real story | Instrument for Gamma-ray satellite GLAST selected
McCaw drops out - the end may be near for Iridium | Big sunspot groups on solar disk - another flare alert | IMAGE launch delayed | Polar satellite spotted a geomagnetic storm | The Sun's influence on Earth's climate | "Striking correlation" between coronal holes and climate | Martian meteorites reveal clues to processes in planet's atmosphere | "Mars bacteria" debate revitalized | Nuclear-powered Mars missions | Two moons of Uranus seen again after 14 years | MACHOs fade as Dark Matter explanation | Watch the Sombrero Galaxy without the galaxy | "Faint Sun Paradox" deepens | Why is Sgr A* such a faint X-ray source? | Chandra images "cosmic weather system" | "Physics on Stage"
European Solar Sail to fly on Russian rocket? (DLR) | JPL Accomplishes Laser Sail First | Spectacular HST view of a reflection nebula (NGC 1999) | ESA builds deep space antenna in Australia (New Norcia) | Next SeaLaunch lift-off on March 12 - for a bankcrupt customer (ICO) | Beal tests powerful rocket engine | Boeing considers air-launched rocket (AirLaunch) | A healthier rocket fuel? (CINCH) | Rockets like auto engines? (Pulse detonation rocket engines) | MSFC Flight experiment to test ultra-high temperature ceramic material | German space agency wants to fly small science satellites | Fregat still not found | How an "Interplanetary Internet" could work | Price list for ISS customers | Panel recommends changes in ISS biotechnology research | New Mir rumors: China to buy the station? | Old Buran shuttle now in Australia | New relief maps of the Earth (NOAA) | EarthKAM | SeaWiFS spots giant sandstorm | Stardust & CONTOUR | Struggle over Hayden meteorite intensifies | Ariane 5 nose cone stranded | Why there was a Feb. 29, 2000
NASA report criticizes Boeing for ISS cost overruns | "Non-traditional" markets the first significant commercial ISS users? | Mir motion picture plans move ahead | Terra satellite reaches final orbit | Meteorite from Yukon fireball found | Reflight of MPL in 2002 one of many options | A privately financed Mars airplane for 2003? | Mars weather: It's stranger than you thought | Planet in a test tube | Who saw the most Total Solar Eclipses? | Molecules with silly names
Galileo survives 3rd Io encounter - this time without any trouble! | SRTM returns with 222 hours of radar data | Many hints of a global fabric in Eros | "Mission to Mars"
Stardust starts to collect interstellar dust particles | Pioneering radio telescope to close (Kitt Peak) | Interplanetary shock wave passes Earth | What do we when when the Sun dies? | The end of the Earth | The world's largest (near) IR sensor | Britain wants to put a 4 m telescope next to the VLT (VISTA) | Giant satellite wing deployments captured on camera
An "obituary" for Starshine | Plesetsk may become Russia's main spaceport | Japan plans shuttle runway on Kiribati | Satellite images show effects of urban sprawl | Contest to name the Cluster satellites started | ESA also looks for Science Fiction ideas "viable" for real use | New Hayden Planetarium opens in NYC | KSC Visitor Center redevelopment nears completion | Italian WIMP discovery remains controversial | More simulations of the Earth's dynamo | Iridium gets short term finance ahead of auction | Liberty Bell mystery remains | Chinese scientists find meteorites in Antarctica | Chinese scientists find meteorites in Antarctica | Was the formation of the Owl nebula witnessed by ancient civilizations | Fossilized bacteria found in ancient meteorite | Making vinegar on the early Earth | SETI researchers are back in Arecibo
"MPL" signals were probably interference - search ends | The Russian Mars disasters of 1973 | Atmospheric energy for subsurface life on Mars? | Space suits for Martian explorers | Eros is a complex object | Rosetta's asteroid observations | Radar mapping can go the full 9 days | IRDT experiment a success in principle - but capsule came down too fast | CGRO might get a reprieve | Pioneer 10 still listens to Earth's commands | NASA's next comet spacecraft: CONTOUR construction begins! | Stardust one year in space
Space opens for business with signing of Mir lease - station could become a hotel ... | NASA approves additional mission to the ISS | Starshine has reentered | Galileo's closest Io flyby on Feb. 22nd | Mushy magma below Io's crust? | The first Far UV image of a meteor | Deep NIR looks into the Universe (VLT) | Coronal Mass Ejection heading towards Earth! | A quasar with a redshift of 5.5 | Every 3rd astronomer wanted XMM time | XMM's mini-camera spots the Earth | U.S. detector lost with Astro-E was originally planned for Chandra | Chandra spectroscopy of gas near a galactic center (NGC 5548) | Proton accident at Russian space center | How the Sudbury structure formed in an impact | 400th anniversary of the murder of Giordano Bruno
Starshine's orbit decays, burnup expected for Feb. 18th | New storm collision looms on Jupiter | How Jupiter's weather is being driven | Galileo approaches Io again | The whole ring around SN 1987A starts to brighten | How bacteria could flourish in Lake Vostok | Cassini's asteroid sighting was also a warmup | 10 years ago Voyager 1 took the "portrait of the solar system" | Why the quark gluon plasma detection was a breakthrough | Soviet satellite debris could bring $100 000
Peak in CMB spectrum now "unambiguous" | Anomaly! (A "monolith" on Phobos / A correlation between the lunar phase and drunk driving / Are pulsars ET beacons after all?) | New star catalog from Hipparcos! (Tycho-2) | Iridium's rescue moves ahead | An essay on the Planck length | An interview with David Raup | An essay on why panspermia sucks | The last word on the 'lunar impact' | Rare positive news from the X-33 | China, Russia to ban space weapons | Buran precursor 'lands' in Australia
First images, spectra show "XMM-Newton's" strengths | "Mission 2000" succeeds: Fregat qualified, reentry method works | Final trajectory correction no problem for NEAR | The NEAP commercial asteroid mission could be delayed | Boeing & Spacedev to end NASA moonopoly | Why Deep Space 1 can't make it to Wilson-Harrington | Ulysses ready for hot solar polar adventure | Smallest satellites ever launched placed in orbit (MEMS/ Opal/JAWSAT) | Countdown for Endeavour under way again (SRTM) | Russia to lift a satellite to geostationary orbit by electric propulsion alone | X-34 gets a baking | SOHO discovers its 100th comet! | "Quasi-moons" are possible for Uranus and Neptune
Again no signal from Mars, new attempt this week (MPL) | $14 billion budget for NASA proposed | New budget launches hunt for 'Shuttle: The Next Generation' | Major flare erupts on Sun | Jupiter's massive storms powered by the planet itself, not the Sun | VLT News: FORS2 commissioning period successfully terminated | Globalstar satellite constellation complete | McCaw to bail out Iridium? | India shifts space policy, clearing way for ambitious science | France may join Japan's Hope-X
Another minimally hazardous asteroid come - and gone (2000 BF19) | More computer power for the Minor Planet Center | Should military micro-satellites hunt down asteroids? (Worden essay) | US team goes to Moscow for ISS check | Two rare meteorites discovered | Could there be Perseid storms in the future? | "Lunar impact" picture(s) all but withdrawn | Physicists recreate big bang conditions (quark gluon plasma) | Kasachstan drops Proton launch ban | More nice Ikonos images | Three satellites flying in triangle formation (NOSS) | Huygens tests S-band probe relay | Biggest parachute ever used in X-38 drop test | New Hayden Planetarium suffering from "futuristic sterility" | Rare Copernicus book stolen | Faster European access to the Planetary Photojournal
Extremely distant galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field | A new atlas of compact groups of galaxies | What slows down stars? 'Magnetic disk-locking' questioned | The early stages in the formation of a star cluster (MWC 1080) | The fine structure of the ISM in the Galaxy (Canadian Galactic Plane Survey) | "Superbubble" led to formation of a ring of molecular clouds | Two more gigantic "galactic chimneys" | A tremendous "superbubble" breaking out of the galaxy NGC 3079 | Evidence that many High Velocity Clouds are primordial | The next big X-ray satellite: Japan's Astro-E | Triple test of space technologies in Soyuz rocket launch (Fregat, IRDT) | NEAR's first rendezvous burn a success! | JAWSAT and its satellites: Some good and some bad news | 200 years ago: Herschel discovers the IR! | 'Astro-mineralogy': ISO finding opens a new research field | Amateur photograph of big 'lunar impact' questionable
Mars still an attractive target (IMEWG meets) | The search for MPL signals continues | Sand avalanches on Mars | Cassini uses its High Gain Antenna now | Tons of proposals for future ESA spacecraft (flexi missions) | SMART-1 spacecraft and payload take shape for Moon journey | Goldin threat: Launch Zvezda by summer or we use our own ICM! | Russia promises to fly Zvezda by June | How the ISS will be used commercially | Mir's orbit to be boosted 40 to 60 km | Solar smoke rings (CMEs) | The first daylight image of an aurora | Light and shadow in the Carina Nebula | Pictures of the lunar eclipse in January | How the 1999 solar eclipse affected the ionosphere | New type of CCD chip (hi-rho) | LockMart competes for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) | Terra has minor recorder trouble | Imminent China launch doubted | Vinci - a new powerful engine for the Ariane 5 | PanAmSat signs with Sea Launch
SRTM launch scrubbed - next attempt not before February 9th | Space is fine for old people | Mir's 2nd coming begins: Progress launched | NASA to fly shuttle to the ISS before Zvezda comes | Chinese astronaut may launch very soon | The Sun's magnetic field has a good 'memory' | Yet another model for solar activity forecasts | Earth's magnetic field simulated in the lab | Satellite instruments reveal evidence the atmosphere has gotten warmer
Cassini makes distant asteroid flyby | Mighty Galileo forges on | NEAR prepares for Eros rendezvous | Deep Space One drops one target, heads only for comet Borrelly | Rosetta STM passes acceleration trials | First light for VLT UT3 "Melipal" | An Infrared View of Globulars in the Andromeda Galaxy | Mars meteorites in California | Woman finds space fireball debris in the U.K. | No response from Mars yet, but more attempts ahead | Russian dreams of another Mars mission (Phobos) | Nomad's first Antarctic meteorite hunt ends with 3 successes | "Wall of Galaxies" in the Hubble Deep Field | The remarkable life of S. Weinberg | The winners of an astrophotography contest (MAO) | 42 years ago: Launch of Explorer 1
Faint artificial signals heard from Mars - did the MPL make it after all? | Beagle 2 team assesses landing sites | Charity concert to promote German astrometry satellite | Minotaur launches package of small satellites | Why the Spanish 'ice bombs' are not from outer space | Energetic particles creating ingredients for life in the ocean of Europa? | What Galileo has taught us about the Jovian Moons | A new component of the Milky Way? (white dwarf protodisk) | Coolest White Dwarf found, probably in the halo of the Milky Way | Off-center spiral galaxies may provide clue to Dark Matter | Multiple generations of stars in a ring of a barred galaxy | "Dying quasars" in nearby galaxies | A second case of a giant disk of water molecules orbiting a galactic core (NGC 1068)
The first HST pictures after the repair mission (Eskimo nebula, Abell 2218) | What was it like to repair Hubble? (STS-103) | Stardust's orbital maneuver complete | T - 3 years for Rosetta | NEAR completes rendezvous rehearsal | H2 engine raised from the ocean | 1 AU worth 1 million bucks... | Terra suffers thruster problem | Astronomy from military aircraft? (SWUIS) | The airborne astronomers also want to hunt for "Vulcanoids" | More pictures, stories of the lunar eclipse | The Yukon meteor | Nomad finds its first meteorite | Next Proton launch | Green light for Proton's successor (Angara) | The 53 most important papers in astronomy | New Hayden Planetarium | "Who needs NASA?"
There will be no Mars launch in 2001 | Lunar eclipse bright as expected | Atlas rocket in front of the Moon | First 2 parts of Stardust maneuver successful | the rescue of Deep Space 1 | Why is there crystalline ice on Charon? | Giant star clusters in other galaxies: globulars being born? | Space tracking pioneer Geoff Perry dies | Large climate pattern in the Pacific? (PDO) | Lagrangian points as spacecraft parking lots | Spanish "iceballs" are rare but not unique atmospheric phenomenon | Amateur discovers supernova - by remote observing | New telescope smashes supernova record (KAIT) | The market for meteorites has exploded | SOHO captured nice eruptive prominence | NASA plane probes Yukon skies for meteor particles | Ariane to launch 15 times in 2000 | Why there's a 2nd version of SETI@home
Closer LMC, higher Hubble constant implied by "Red Clump" stars | The distance of the LMC | Where are the baryons? | The Universe is flat | Five rather different reviews (of cosmology) | Imaginative Cosmology | The coolest Brown Dwarf ever: 500 degrees C! | Complex organic molecules form quickly in space | Life could have travelled easily between Earth and Mars | Other Earths not frequent in space? (PLANET) | Gap in circumstellar disk hints at nascent planet that formed quickly | Ideas for space telescopes beyond the NGST | The first ground-based measurements of radio emission from interstellar molecules in the "terahertz waveband" | Did a passing star cause Beta Pic's dust disk to "ring"? | Asymmetry in stellar disk may hint at planet (HR 4796) | No more listening for the Mars Polar Lander | Mars Express design approved by an ESA panel | "Lost Canyons and Missing Corpses" | Back to the drawing boards for Mars 2001
NEAR begins to image Eros | Deep Space 1 points antenna back to Earth, transmits data | Huge eruption by Io volcano just when Galileo flew by | Some results from the airborne Leonids campaign | Meteor explosion brightens skies near Alaska | Tile problem could delay shuttle Endeavour launch (SRTM) | China to participate in the ISS? | Huge X-ray telescope proposed for the ISS | CGRO's fate all but sealed? | Amateur photographs XMM in orbit | Hubble has returned to observing | Budget boost for NASA expected for FY 2001 | Bizarre ice blocks rain on Spain... | Two NASA balloons are flying over Antarctica | Minotaur launch aborted twice (JAWSAT) | Nomad's Antarctic meteorite hunt | Motorola losing faith in Iridium | Missile fails to intercept warhead | Spacescience.com continues | All about Green Flashes
SRTM remains set for the 31st | Mir commercialisation a better approach than NASA's ISS? | How a stellar wind interacts with the interstellar medium | Rumors about deorbiting plans for aging CGRO | Another delay for the first X-33 flight | Hughes sells satellite business to Boeing | Refurbished Minuteman to launch several satellites | How severe was the NRO Y2K breakdown? | IKONOS images of the North Korean launch site | "Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change" | TRMM satellite improves rain forecasts | European race for new navigation system | Cape Canaveral is a fish sanctuary | Space Tourism prospects - a detailled review | Soon first light for VLT UT3
Leonids'99: the complete picture! | The HST is resuming its scientific work | A Hubble Heritage image of a starburst in NGC 4214 | Meanwhile the commissioning of the XMM has resumed | Successes of Chandra | Commercial future for Mir found? | Space VLBI yields sharpest quasar images yet | Terra healthy, checkout continues | ACRIMSAT had problems, too | Another safe mode for SOHO | SeaWinds suffered minor gyro glitch | The 2nd flight of Flare Genesis | NASDA tries to raise the H2 rocket | Planck satellite takes shape | How to send spacecraft to other stars | Software upgrade for SETI@home | NASA kills its best news service, tries to revive it
The first HST EVA has begun! | The Zvezda ISS module won't launch until next April | Taurus launches 2 satellites, cremated remains | Terra's antenna works again
Geminids reached ZHR of 135 | Observatory helicopter hit the cable car wire! | Galileo mission extended to May 2000? | XMM now in operational orbit | A scientific paper with Chandra data (on Cas A) | Iridium woes intesify as Motorola pulls out | MPL: The search begins... | A long analysis of the MPL disaster | Further observations of the planetary transits in front of HD209458 | What NASA considers "its" top 10 stories | And a little-known picture of the Earth & the Moon - taken in 1973 by Mariner 10
Another disaster at French radio observatory: fatalities in
helicopter crash at Plateau de Bure |
Terra in orbit - launch at the last minute! |
Third New Millennium Earth Observer selected |
A very last launch attempt for Discovery on Dec. 20th? |
Efforts to contact MPL still not over |
Young to lead Mars Program Assessment Team |
Balloon flight will help scientists understand how to shield Mars crews |
Ulysses dust data show: We're inside an interstellar cloud |
The first pictures from Galileo's November Io flyby |
Deep Space 1 remains in safemode
Geminids gave nice show | Hubble vs. an amateur telescope | Still 3 concepts for the NGST | Light reflection off exoplanet now published | How the planetary transits were already in the Hipparcos files | Decisive test for a Black Hole in the Galactic Center proposed | Radical hypothesis for the young Earth | Fourth VLT mirror delivered to ESO | Yet more evidence against the "small comets" | Moon rock pulled from auction website | All constants of Nature have been remeasured | Pioneer 10 honored by a new stamp
Ariane 5 performs: XMM delivered to nice orbit | Chandra's observations of Supernova 1999em | SOHO back at work | Rare shutdown of the solar wind observed by scores of satellites | TRACE finds 'moss' on the Sun | FAST spacecraft discovers "invisible aurora" | Instruments for STEREO selected | Brazil's rocket fails again, another science satellite gone | MOLA data support ancient ocean on Mars | More attempts to contact MPL fail | MGS starts search for MPL's parachute | Plans for 2003 mission go ahead / 2001 lander launch still possible | Various thoughts about the MPL disaster | Soft Gamma Repeaters can look like 'normal' GRB's, too... | SGR 1900+14 and its big Aug. 1998 flare | BATSE finds the most distant quasar yet seen in soft gamma rays | Quakes on pulsars | Gravitational wave observatory LIGO inaugurated | Microbes deep in Antarctic ice - clues to life elsewhere? | Astrobiology forum launched in the U.K. | D. radiodurans, a bacterium as if made for space | Countdown for HST rescue mission has begun! | SpaceHab teams up with Russia for commercial ISS module | High radiation risk during ISS EVAs
VBLI images SNRs in Messier 82 | Upgrade for Jodrell Bank 76 m telescope | Did the Big Bang cook up carbon? | Nova Aquilae still brighter than 6 mag. | Japan abandons H 2, delays H 2A debut | ACRIMSAT to launch this month | Russia blows up old satellite (Cosmos 2347) | SOHO returns to normal today | UN Proclaims World Space Week | High altitude lightning more frequent? | New director for the NASM | Rocket sled pioneer Stapp dead | A lot has been found in Liberty Bell 7 | More space relics on the ocean floor | 25 years ago: Helios 1 launched
MPL all but given up, DS2 probes dead - Only "remote" hope left for the main lander / Penetrator batteries empty by now / Fears for Mars 2001 lander with its MPL heritage | Leonids'99 plus 3 weeks: mysteries and answers | The Geminids are coming | Nova Aquilae 1999 Nr. 2 fades | Outstanding amateur deep sky photographs | High Velocity Clouds - of more than one kind? | Another measure for GRB distances? | Another obituary for GRB researcher van Paradijs | Contract signature for 3 new European weather satellites | NASA's next big Earth observing satellite (Terra) | How lightning affects the ionosphere | New scale for space storms introduced
Discovery launch on 11th threatened | Ariane launches European reconnaissance satellite (Helios 1B) | Pegasus launches ORBCOMM satellites | SOHO recovering from safemode | A short circuit on Deep Space One | Air Force Completes Launch Review | U.K. government prepares for space impact | Few cases of eclipse eye damage in Germany
MPL touchdown imminent after final orbit correction | Instrument upgrades for Mars Express | The first Mars MicroMission | Robotic outposts on Mars proposed | How Mars's atmosphere got lost | Discovery wave continues: six more exoplanets | Planetary transit seen again! | Hubble hunts for planet transits - in a globular cluster! | Green light for big South African telescope (SALT)| HET has completed its commissioning phase | First fringes for CHARA | FORS2 installed at Kueyen
Discovery launch now set for Dec. 11th | What to do with Hubble after 2010? | Micromirrors to play a role in the NGST | SOHO in frequent safemodes | Deep Space 1 in safemode, too | Hale-Bopp's controversial companion | All four Cluster replacement satellites came together | G modes in the solar wind? | XMM launch remains set for Dec. 10th | Chandra's most recent picture | Russia calls Mir Y2K compliant | Sending 'collectibles' to Mir | 30 years ago: microbes return from the Moon | Do we have to afraid of Martian germs?
Expectations for 1999 Leonids toned down | Independent panel reports about the MCO scandal | Potential pyrotechnics problem on MPL close to solution? | How the NPC recedes from the MPL landing site | NASA scraps plans for Mars airplane in 2003 | More payload for Mars Express | Wild parties on Mars will be essential ... | Did life come from Mars | Europe is going to the moon - the Science Programme Committee has finalized all aspects of the SMART-1 mission | Europa exploration should share priority with Mars | Pioneer 10 gets new life | Gamma bursts ... without gamma rays? | A correlation between absolute GRB brightness and the amount of flickering | HST Servicing Mission to go on Dec. 6th | Old news from Hubble: The Trifid nebula observations
Night skies are bright as in daytime: fireball startles Germans | A 'Richter scale' for space weather | "Superthin" galaxies are common in the Universe | A systematic offset between pulsars and their supernova remnants | Strange astrophysical papers | Zvezda launch now set for February | Proton grounded until 2000 | First flight of X-33 delayed again? | Two new competitors for the X Price | New distance record for Kuiper Belt Object (1999 DG8) | Sandia's 'Z machine' simulates neutron stars | LIGO gravitational wave detector to be inaugurated | What gravitational wave observatories will see | Gravity Probe B faces costly delay | Scientists make their own asteroid craters
Gamma burst specialist van Paradijs dead at 53 | A comeback for the double star planet? | MGS gives weather forecast for MPL | "Spaceliner 100": NASA to look way beyond the Shuttle | No decision on Shuttle successor before 2005 | X-33 hydrogen tank damaged in tests | Major milestone for SOFIA's mirror
More Io close-ups released! | Remnants of galaxy eaten by the Milky Way discovered | Ancestors of today's galaxies revealed | Distance of the LMC remains mysterious | HST mission delayed a few days | A nice HST picture of colliding galaxies | Proton suffered engine explosion | How to extend the Internet to other planets | UN wants to prevent space arms race | Is the Torino scale useless? | Ham operators to help NASA with satellite experiment (JAWSAT) | More IKONOS images posted | 30 years ago: Germany's first satellite (AZUR) | Supercomputers simulate Gamma Ray Bursts | More confusion on China's manned space program | John Glenn's memoirs | High resolution CCD imaging (Saturn) | You cannot legally own land on the Moon
First Proton fragments found | Ongoing volcanism on Neptune's moon Triton | Ground-based pictures of Mercury | Two new ESA Earth missions close to approval (GOCE & ADM) | ISS to be used extensively for Earth observation | Japanese Lunar Exploration: Robots Now, People Later | Understanding what a comet nucleus looks like (DS1 related) | Orbiting filling station to keep spy satellites aloft | Auction of Challenger heat tile stopped | First image from CBERS presented | Sputnik 1 was more advanced | How NASA keeps Triana alive | Some ex-space chimps leaving lab | Teledesic bails out ICO | What flying the 'vomit comet' is like | Yet another space website (Space.com) | "Vanity area code" for the "Space Coast"
Proton fails again - more trouble for ISS! | Station Maneuvers to Avoid Space Junk | Glitch in Zvezda computer found | HST resolves stars deep in elliptical galaxy (M 32) | Chandra reveals X-ray jet in nearby galaxy (Cen A) | VLBI tracks jet down to galaxy's center (M 87) | First Io close-up image already released | Doubts about the double star planet | GM Sgr - the outburst never happened! (was V4641 Sgr)
Clinton signs NASA budget | More doubts: MPL trajectory correction delayed again | "Pseudocraters" on Mars | Biomarkers for Mars to be defined | NEAR Suffers Minor Thruster Problem | Did Clementine see traces of an LTP? | 3 million dollars to make better Moon maps | Private lunar orbiter planned (TransOrbital) | Items from a NASA conference on Gamma Ray Bursts | Neutron star glitches | Europe's aerospace mergers: U.S. next? | Delta 3 failure explained
Do growing planetary systems form rings? (HR 4796A) | Do many stars eat their own planets? | Small and big stars can form in the same starburst (NGC 3603) | Germany loses Taiwanese satellite contract (ROCSAT 2) | A detailled map of the light pollution in Europe | Luna 23 | Galileo | Deep Space 1 | VdS Medal for Michael J�ger | New hope for ICO? | Latest space auction brings prices down to Earth | A coronal hole keeps space weather forecasters busy | Brazil loses contact with a satellite (SACI) | A new look for the VentureStar | Meet the first Israeli to fly the shuttle | Cluster II team visits Baikonour | Hurrican Irene did little damage at the KSC | How asteroids get their names | A man who has flown 14 000 parabolas (Vomit Comet) | Gravitational wave observatory will search for merging black holes (LIGO) | Balloons for research on Earth and elsewhere | Life in the Universe
Merger wave in Europe's aerospace continues | Will Russia help China put men in space? | Hubble views of the "Rotten Egg Nebula" | Roton makes the third test flight | Cluster cooperation with China discussed | A series of coronal mass ejections | Radarsat maps Antarctica | Unknown Dutch Print with a Lunar Map | The Cosmic Mirror gives clearer view of Neptune
X-rays from Venus? | Nitrogen sulface found in Hale-Bopp | No big Vulcanoids are expected | Measuring asteroids with HST's FGS | Water on Jupiter - in old Voyager spectra | Ganymede's aurorae confuse Hubble, ground-based observers | Dust clouds around 3 of the Galilean moons | We're missing most of Io's big volcanic eruptions
Mega-merger creates European aerospace giant (EADS) | Two crews train for another Mir mission | Eclipse pendulum experiment yields strange results | Next MPL trajectory correction | Hollywood's new love affair with Mars | Bright rings found around sunspots | Australian plans for a mega-radio telescope (SKA) | Five years ago Magellan burned up | Launch pad at Cape Canaveral blown up | PicoSat debuts in November | China launches two Brazilian satellites
NASA Budget restored to full requested level! | Is there another Jupiter in the Solar System? | Some Kuiper Belt Objects May Be Pieces of Pluto | Mars Polar Lander still on right course | Craters on rocks seen by Pathfinder (MPF)
Chandra spots Eta Carinae | The "Hubble Heritage Program" | New asteroid threat already history (1999 RM45) | World's largest impact crater found in S. Africa (Vredefort) | 40 years ago: The first pictures of the back side of the Moon (Luna 3) | Another case of a possible supernova - GRB connection | An early image of the new LINEAR comet | Cheaper into space with maglev? | Antarctic lake Vostok like Jupiter's Europa? | Newly processed Mariner 10 images of Mercury
MCO controllers had doubts about trajectory, did nothing | Martian meteorite carbonate 3.9 Gyr old | Mars a target for space tourism? | Can Martian microbes endanger the Earth? | Eric Idle, The Road to Mars | Gamma Ray Bursts and Supernovae: a connection after all? | First light for new VLT instrument (UVES) | Hubble views structure of NGC 1365 | Pictures of the moon of asteroid Eugenia
New comet visible naked-eye in 2000? (LINEAR) | How the Leonids "work" | Did Giotto discover a companion of comet Grigg-Skjellerup? | Another potentially hazardous asteroid (1999 RM45) | The earliest observation of a Trojan asteroid | How Venus' surface got its 'wrinkles' | ESA considers insurance for XMM | Astronomy in the 21st century (surveys,data mining) | Two more extrasolar planets | NASA budget conference starts this week | China plans launch pad in South China Sea (Hainan) | Galileo approaches Io | Fighting light pollution in U.S. National Parks | The last X-34 flight test for the year | ISS astronauts will have a view of the Earth | 8th Space Frontier Conference | Homer the Astronomer
Does the Earth have more - minor - moons? | Does a Kuiper Belt Object tug at Pioneer 10? | SOHO gets more robust software | Sulfuric acid found on Europa | Deuterium in Uranus and Neptune | "Diamond showers" on Neptune and Uranus | ESA Mercury Mission named (BepiColombo) | Astronomical motives for German stamps | "Pizza Hut" wanted to advertise on the Moon | Star formation around massive stars (30 Dor) | What we know about the core of the Moon | Nanorover to drive around asteroid (Muses-CN) | Russia plans commercial 'spysats', too | India reveals an ambitious space program
Ikonos launched on time! | New Chandra images of SNRs | XMM arrives in Kourou | Big bucks at space auction | Rising threats to radio astronomy | The Foton 12 capsule is back | Roton makes the 2nd test flight | Reassessment of Triana urged | Amateur asteroid hunters important | The ISS may go to a private company | Subaru telescope inaugurated | GM Sgr in outburst | Russian launch for Integral confirmed | Aldrin calls for space tourism
Yet another moon of Uranus | A big planet or a small brown dwarf? | NRO drops LockMart for Boeing as spysat maker | Old spysat pix of Antarctica | A hyperspectral camera | The future of Earth observation | A lengthy (and very entertaining) report about the recent ACM conference | The relationship between asteroid impacts and tsunamis | What became of the Europa ocean hypothesis? | HST pictures of 2 big star clusters | Images of comet Lee - with a dramatically bright anti-tail | Some image processing experiments with the solar corona (1999)
Dust devils on Mars | U.S. experiment for Mars Express | The grand finale for Galileo | Russian capsule carries European experiments (Foton 12) | Images from the Fast Track Imager (UKIRT) | A small robot could assist astronauts (Personal Satellite Assistant) | A very old Chinese eclipse report? | Prison near Stellafane to be built | A new time ball has been installed at the USNO | Earth's oceans to dry up | Did a gamma ray burst trigger the formation of the solar system?
