To mark the European launch of WALL-E, Disney/Pixar’s exciting smash hit movie, ESA is launching a new website which highlights the multitude of educational resources and fun activities that are available on the Agency’s Internet pages.
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For the first time ESA is offering an Innovation Prize as part of this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA has already been supporting this competition through its Technology Transfer Programme Office since the start four years ago.
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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.
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SPACE.com – As humans look farther into the universe and discover moreand more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar systemis. Often astronomers in the planet-hunting business say discoveries ofEarth-like worlds are just around the corner.
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Joint statement by the International Space Station Heads of Agency ESA PR 33-2008. The Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre helps to stabilise the ice shelf, it is likely the break-up of the bridge will put the remainder of the ice shelf at risk.
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SPACE.com – NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander hassuccessfully drilled into the rock-hard ice layer below the Martian surface andcollected the frozen shavings in its robotic arm scoop, NASA said on Wednesday.
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Over the last 6 months, representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been engaged in detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that when conducted cooperatively could one day support a human outpost on the Moon.
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SPACE.com – NASAscientists planned to instruct the Phoenix Mars Lander to test out its methodfor shaving and collecting ice for a second time Friday.
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2008 July 16 
Makemake of the Outer Solar System Credit: R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASARecently discovered Makemake is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System.Pronounced MAH-kay MAH-kay, this Kuiper beltobject is only slightly smaller than Pluto, orbits the Sun only slightly further out than Pluto, and appears only slightly dimmer than Pluto.Makemake, however, has an orbit much more tilted to the ecliptic plane of the planets than Pluto. Designated 2005 FY9soon after its discovery by a team led by Mike Brown(Caltech) in 2005, the outer Solar System orb was recently renamed Makemakefor the creator of humanity in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island.Additionally, Makemake has been recently classified as a dwarf planet under the new subcategory plutoid, making Makemake the third cataloged plutoid after Pluto and Eris. Makemake is known to be a world somewhat red in appearance, with spectra indicating it is likely covered with frozen methane.Since no images of Makemake‘s surface yet exist, an artist’s illustration originally meant to depict Sednahas been boldly co-opted above to now illustrate Makemake. A hypothetical moonis visualized above nearly in the direction of our distant Sun. pixels in space
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