Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars A spoof look at Spirit's spirits from The Onion. PASADENA, CA—After nearly three years of nonstop data collection, Spirit has begun transmitting obscene gestures and confusing rants. with humourmarsspirit
New Exoplanet Mission Europe looks forward to COROT launch ESA PR 47-2006. On 27 December, COROT is to be launched into space on a unique astronomy mission: its twin goals are to detect exoplanets orbiting around other stars and to probe the mysteries of stellar interiors as never before. COROT is a French national space agency (CNES)-led mission to which the European Space Agency and European partners are adding a particularly strong inte coroteuropeforwardlaunchlooks with exoplanet
New Planet Hunter Prepares for Launch ESA prepares to launch COROT space telescope A powerful new instrument for finding extrasolar planets is about to launch: COROT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transits). Developed by the European Space Agency, COROT will search for planets using the transit method; it will be able to detect the with esaexoplanet
New Stellar Neighbours Found More red dwarves found close to the sun. Astronomers have turned up 20 new star systems in our corner of the Milky Way. The discoveries were made by the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (RECONS) using the parallax method. The angles to various stars were measured at different with stars