2003 News Archive
A new type of superconducting detectors may be the best bet for future space telescope missions.
A new kind of supersensitive light detector may one day help astronomers see the universe better than they do today.
Anne Kinney, Director, NASA's Astronomy And Physics Division, discusses the decision of whether or not to de-orbit the Hubble Space Telescope at the end of the next decade.
The balloon-bourne X-ray mission, InFOCμS, will pave the way for space-based missions, such as Constellation-X, by allowing scientists to test and refine the optics and instruments.
The 10-year road map for NASA's Structure and Evolution of the Universe theme has recently been laid out. The Beyond Einstein program seeks the answers to the questions: What powered the Big Bang? What happens at the edge of a black hole? And what is the nature of the dark energy that seems to be pulling the universe apart?
