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Wired, 18.03.10 19:35 UTC

Cosmic Dust Gives Milky Way a Fiery Mane

The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan. Rotating in orbit, Planck takes data of the sky in strips, almost the reverse ...

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BBC Sciences, 17.03.10 19:43 UTC

Planck spies massive dust clouds

Europe's Planck observatory has given another brief glimpse of its work.

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Wired, 16.03.10 14:34 UTC

Closest Ever Look at Martian Moon

The sharpest images yet taken by the Mars Express spacecraft of Marsâ tiny moon Phobos reveal features as small asÂ 14.5 feetÂ across, the European Space Agency announced March 15. Some of the new ...

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Nature, 15.03.10 20:17 UTC

Japan prepares for Venus countdown

Akatsuki probe could help to explain why Venus is so different from Earth.

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Wired, 08.03.10 22:59 UTC

All of Life's Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula

The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula. By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules ...

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The Register, 05.03.10 10:38 UTC

Mars Express skims past Phobos

The European Space Agency's Mars Express yesterday skimmed past Martian moon Phobos at a distance of just 67km - the closest any manmade object has ever approached the "enigmatic" body. The flyby was ...

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Nature, 03.03.10 18:36 UTC

News briefing: 4 March 2010

The week in science

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Nature, 24.02.10 18:16 UTC

News briefing: 25 February 2010

The week in science.

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BBC Sciences, 23.02.10 23:02 UTC

'Tuned' images from water mission

The first fully calibrated images from the European Space Agency's Smos satellite have now been released.

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BBC Sciences, 18.02.10 10:21 UTC

Rocky road

It weighs almost a tonne, has cost more than $2bn and, in 2013, it will be lowered on to the surface of Mars with a landing system that has never been tried before. The Mars Science Laboratory will ...