Wired reports that the ESA (European Space Agency) has launched their Mars probe.

SpaceToday.net is reporting that a test intended to determine if a piece of foam insulation could have damaged the space shuttle has resulted in a 62cm long by .6cm deep gap in the test material, furthering speculation that foam strike was definitely related to the failure of the wing …

SpaceToday.net is reporting that the latest hurdle to the European answer to GPS has now been negotiated. In April of this year, a funding row stalled the plan for Europe to "defend" itself against the US's GPS system by flying their own.

The BBC News is reporting that the X-Prize entry being built by Burt Rutan's company (Scaled Composites) flew earlier this week. A picture in the article shows the mated two-part sub-orbital craft above the earth.

The launch of Beagle 2, the "British-led expedition of Mars" will lift off in less than 10 days aboard a Soyuz rocket. Scheduled to arrive in December, the Beagle 2 will search for life on Mars.

An article on SpaceToday.net says that the board investigating the Columbia disaster believes that a rescue (involving sending the shuttle Atlantis after the crew) would have been possible. This report raises questions about the decision by NASA not to pursue assistance in gaining satellite imagery of the damaged shuttle …

A lengthy article in Popular Science details some of the plans for replacement shuttles. Long, but interesting read.

The Russians have proven that it isn't just the US and France that know how to send spacecraft off course using software. An article on MSNBC claims that the cause of the off-course landing of the most recent Soyuz station was an as-yet-unidentified software glitch. Of concern is the fact …

"It's a beautiful day on my asteroid... a beautiful day.." er.. maybe not. However, an article on MSNBC is reporting that asteroid #26858 is now Misterrogers.

An article on Space Today confirms that the Hubble is back in business after shutting down yesterday due to a gyro failure. Upon failure, the telescope went in to "safe mode" while scientists and engineers attempted to revive the gyro. Unable to do that, they activated one of the two …

In the first manned space flight since the Columbia disaster, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with one Cosmonaut and one Astronaut on board has docked with the International Space Station on a mission to replace the current crew.

SpaceToday.net has an article stating that Russian president Vladamir Putin announced the consideration of additional funding for the ISS on the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first flight.

On a day that had most people focused on the Earth, a pair of Americans were high above the planet on a mission to reconfigure stabilization gyros on the International Space Station. One of the four gyros failed last year and was to be replaced on a shuttle mission later …

Reports from many news outlets over the weekend are showing that the latest recovered tape from the Space Shuttle Columbia are providing evidence that the heat damage to the left wing started very early in the descent of the shuttle. An article on Space Today points at many of the …

According to an article on Space Today, a Russian Soyuz rocket will take a crew of two (likely to be one American and one Russian) to act as caretakers for the International Space Station while we await the reinstatement of Shuttle flights.

According to an article on Space Today, and many other media outlets, Japan has launched two spy satellites (their first) to keep an eye on North Korea.

NASA announced on Wednesday that they had discovered something on Jupiter even larger that the Big Red Spot. They call it The Great Dark Spot. The Cassini spacecraft was peering at Jupiter on its leisurely jaunt to Saturn and discovered it using UV observation.

According to an article on BBC News, China has announced plans to establish a mining base on the moon by 2010 in order to "exploit the mineral resources" of our satellite.

According to an article on CNN, China is planning a trip to the moon that could commence less than three years from now.

According to an article on Space Today, Russia has announced that they have agreed on plan with NASA to keep the ISS manned while the Shuttle is grounded. The basics are that the existing crew will return to earth on the currently attached Soyuz craft in April. At about the …