SPACE.com - WASHINGTON —
A flurry of behind-the-scenes maneuvering took place late Wednesday as
opponents of a NASA authorization bill fought back efforts by leaders
of the
U.S. House Science and Technology Committee to bring the measure to a
floor
vote before lawmakers break for the summer district work period that
begins
Aug. 2. more >>
SPACE.com - After
more than six years roaming the surface of Mars, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity
has spotted its first dust devil on the red planet. more >>
SPACE.com - A
piece of Chinese space junk expected to zoom by the International Space Station
Thursday will pass harmlessly by, NASA officials said
after scrambling to determine whether the six people aboard the outpost would
have to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution. more >>
SPACE.com - NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is
headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the
outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution. more >>
SPACE.com - Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age
conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent
study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient impact is nothing more
than fungus and other matter. more >>
AP - The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be laid off in the fall. more >>
SPACE.com - Astronomy
has come a long way in the 401 years since Galileo turned his first primitive
telescope to the sky, so it may be no surprise we see a very different solar
system than the field's earliest pioneers did. more >>
SPACE.com - A giant black hole spouting energy from inside a galaxy is
acting like a cosmic magnifying glass, giving astronomers a clear view of an even
more distant galaxy behind it. more >>
SPACE.com - A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of
slamming into the Earth would be most likely hit in 2182, if it
crashed into our planet at all, a new study suggests. more >>
SPACE.com - BREMEN, Germany - In
three years, the European Space Agency will become the owner of what is
possibly the most dangerous piece of space debris circling the Earth for the
next 150 years: the 17,636-pound Envisat Earth
observation satellite. more >>
SPACE.com - A lost tool and washer marred an otherwise routine spacewalk
by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station Tuesday. more >>
SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts have accidentally a tool and a small
item in space while spacewalking outside the International Space Station early
Tuesday. more >>
SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts have floated outside the International
Space Station to begin a spacewalk aimed at changing out a broken camera and
wiring up a new room so spaceships can park there on autopilot. more >>
SPACE.com - A pair of experimental U.S. missile defense satellites has passed a
series of vital tests in space, spotting three missile launches and
successfully relaying data about their trajectories to observers on Earth. more >>
SPACE.com - NASA engineers are working to revive the space agency's
oldest spacecraft in orbit around Mars from an unexpected malfunction that stalled
its observations of the red planet. more >>
