Water found on Moon!
Rumours that Lunar Prospector – NASA’s first lunar mission in twenty five years – had confirmed the existence of water ice had captivated the space science community since the beginn...
NASA looks to next Mars mission
The Surveyor 98 mission consists of a satellite called Mars Climate Orbiter, and a ground probe, Mars Polar Lander. Both craft will arrive at Mars during 1999. The orbiter will spend two years measuri...
Planet controversy ends
The new evidence is published in this week’s Nature. Two papers, one by David Gray of the University of Western Ontario, and one by Artie Hatzes of the University of Texas, Austin, describe new ...
Mission to Saturn back on track
The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and one of its moons, Titan, lifts off
