SPACE.com - NASA scientists planned to instruct the Phoenix Mars Lander to test out its method for shaving and collecting ice for a second time Friday. Read more…
SPACE.com - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has made a movie of the moon passing in front of the Earth from the probe's vantage point millions of miles away. Read more…
AFP - The heads of five agencies building the International Space Station staged talks here Thursday on tackling a looming transport problem for the ISS and gave positive signals for extending the orbital outpost's life beyond 2015. Read more…
AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday. Read more…
SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully drilled into the rock-hard ice layer below the Martian surface and collected the frozen shavings in its robotic arm scoop, NASA said on Wednesday. Read more…
AFP - The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday. Read more…
SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has begun using a special rasp tool to shave off bits of the hard icy material on the Martian ground. Read more…
AP - The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation's next spaceship: Lots of No. 1. Read more…
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) hosted NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of Agriculture Edward T. Schafer during the signing of a memorandum of understanding to enable the USDA's Agricultural Research Service to conduct plant related research on the International Space Station. Read more…
NASA's Ames Research Center will award a Small 8 (a) Business performance-based contract, valued at $29 million to Al-Razaq Computing Services of Houston, to provide financial services support to the center. Read more…
NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to return to the Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch Oct. 8. Read more…
Contrary to news reports, NASA has not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) -- uninhabited resupply cargo ships for the space station -- from the Japanese Space Agency. Read more…
The grants will focus on improving science and engineering education. Read more…
Canadians in four provinces reported seeing a record number of unidentified flying objects in 2007, according to an annual report released by a Winnipeg-based non-profit organization that has recorded UFO sightings since 1989. Read more…
A police helicopter crew gave chase to a UFO after it almost collided with their aircraft near a military base. The pilot was forced to bank sharply to avoid being hit by the mystery aircraft as the helicopter was returning to the Ministry of Defence base of St Athan, near Cardiff. Read more…
A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the skies above his military barracks.Corporal Mark Proctor was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night patrol.He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army top brass. Read more…
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt was deputy base commander at RAF Woodbridge in December 1980 when patrolmen from the United States Air Force (USAF) claimed they saw a small, triangular shaped craft moving backwards through the woods before taking off. Read more…
KING: Welcome back. Britain's Ministry of Defense has just released secret UFO files on sightings dating from 1978 through 1987. They include live, eyewitness accounts and the government's response. More files dating from the 1950s and recent events will be released over the next four years. Read more…
The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official report. Read more…
An unidentified flying object was reported to have hovered over southern Gran Canaria early on the morning of March 14 and was seen by dozens of people on their drive to work. Read more…
A photographer who stopped on a whim to take some pictures at night might have chanced upon a real UFO.The picture appears to show a mysterious object in the shape of a flying saucer. Read more…
The number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in the UK has soared in the last year with people calling the Ministry of Defence with concerns about bright white lights, strange triangular-shaped objects and even alien abduction. Read more…
Stephenville, Texas - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Read more…
A mysterious “flying Dorito-shaped” object which was seen by dozens of people just before Christmas has been spotted again – this time in the skies above Lower Gornal.The strange unexplained flying object was seen by residents in Wallows Wood, off The Straits, at around 6.15pm on Tuesday. Read more…
