[NASA] Detection of sugar in two carbonaceous meteorites.

[ESA] Surprising new details about the interior of sunspots.

[JPL] Jupiter's moon Io has no intrinsic magnetic field.

[JB] The MERLIN radio telescope will be upgraded by optical fibre connections between the seven antennae.

[ESO] Europe's Astrophysical Virtual Observatory will give astronomers access to vast databanks.

[NAOJ] A laser guide stars experiment will be in January 2002.

[ESA] First X-ray view of Venus!

[NASA] NASA selects Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission for phase B study

[ESA] Cassiopeia-A: composition and dynamics of the supernova remnant.

[JPL] New images from Jupiter's moon Io: volcanoes and lava lakes.

[ESA] Huygens passes communications test.

[ESA] Detection of mysterious clouds of gas falling towards the sun against the solar wind.

[ESA] Star or planet? - Some Brown Dwarfs have discs and form like stars.

[ESA] SOHO reveals how sunspots take a stranglehold on the Sun

[NAOJ] First estimate of the formation temperature of ammonia ice in a comet.

[NASA] STS-108: Space shuttle Endeavour now on launch pad, launch scheduled for Nov 29.

[JPL] Tallest volcanic plume from a previously unknown vulcano on Jupiter's moon Io.

[Harvard] A remarkably cool neutron star.

[Harvard] Distribution of dark matter in the distant galaxy cluster EMSS 1358+6245.

[Harvard] Determination of the amount of dark matter in 5 large clusters of galaxies.

[Harvard] High-energetic x-ray emitting winds from OB stars in the Rosette nebula.

[Harvard] Frequent and powerful flare of young stars in Orion may solve the mystery of exotic elements in our Solar System.

[Harvard] Contradictory x-ray binary in the globular star cluster M15: in reality there are two binaries!

[Harvard] 3C58: Why did the young pular not slow down?

[Harvard] Jet of a strongly magnetized pulsar extends over 20 light years.

[Harvard] Nova Aquilae: Observation of unusual pulsations from a white dwarf in x-rays.

[ESO] Young stellar population near the centres of active galaxies.

[Harvard] The Milky Way plane's x-ray emission comes from hot and diffuse gas.

[NRAO] First radio images of a powerful coronal mass ejection on the Sun.

[JPL] Acoustic sensors on the surface could help detect an ocean of water under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

[NRAO] Detailed map of the magnetic field inside a star-forming cloud.

[Harvard] Gamma-Ray Bursts may be caused by the formation of electrically charged black holes.

[CSIRO] Measurement of the relativistic distortion of space-time by radio observations of a pulsar.

[ESA] Andromeda

[ESA] New mission scenario for Cassini-Huygens in order to solve the Huygens radio communications problem.

[ESO] Brown Dwarfs form like stars, many of them have protoplanetary disks.

[ESO] New infrared images of Jupiter and Io.

[NRAO] Discovery of an unusual interstellar cloud in the transition to a molecular cloud.

[Harvard] Large numbers of mid-mass black holes found in starburst galaxies.

[NOAO] First infrared observations of star and planet formation by the Gemini North Telescope.

[ANU] 2dF redshift survey releases the first 100.000 galaxy redshifts.

[ESO] Spectacular image of gravitational interaction between a distant quasar and its neighbouring galaxies.

[NASA] First detection of neutral atoms in the solar wind.

[ESO] Comet LINEAR (C/2001 A2) splits further - observation of a third nucleus.

[Harvard] 47 Tucanae: first complete census of compact binaries in the core of a globular cluster.

[NASA] Canadarm2 - the amazing new robotic arm is essential for building the International Space Station.

[NASA] International Space Station Status Report

[Berkeley] Life from space? Organic molecules on comets could survive a collision with Earth.

[NASA] Two more x-ray pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

[Harvard] Gamma-ray Bursts may originate in star-forming regions.

[ESO] Detection of 11 new extrasolar planets around solar-type stars.

[JPL] Deep Space 1's ion engine runs for more than 10,000 hours.

[JPL] Jupiter radiation belts harsher than expected.

[NAZ] Absturz der Raumstation MIR: Termin auf 23. März festgelegt.

[ESA] Insulation tests of the INTEGRAL gamma spectrometer.

[JPL] One last mission extension for the Galileo spacecraft.

[NASA] STS-102: Astronauts installed control system for a robot arm.

[JPL] Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io provide a new technique of determining relative surface ages by measuring the surface temperature.

[ESO] Discovery of a Type II Quasar during observations of the cosmic x-ray background.

[ESO] A supermassive black hole in the nearby galaxy Centaurus A.

[JPL] New details in pictures of Jupiter's Aurora.

[NASA] STS-102: Space Shuttle Discovery on the way to the International Space Station.

[S.Now] MIR reentry date postponed to March 20.

[BBC] Russia plans a MIR reentry risk insurance.

[WUStL] Water in the past of Jupiter's moon Ganymede?

[AAO] NGC 2903: Star formation may spread inside a galaxy "like a bushfire".

[Stanford] Analysis of two rare meteorites rekindle debate about birth of Solar System.

[NASA] STS-98: Shuttle astronauts complete their work in the Space Station.

[CfA] First large-scale mapping of interstellar CO gas in the Galactic Center.

[UTexas] Top observatories will cooperate in the field of astronomy education.

[JHU] NEAR will gather data from the surface of asteroid 433 Eros.

[JHU] Historic landing of the space probe NEAR on asteroid 433 Eros.

[NASA] STS-98: Shuttle Atlantis launched successfully, astronauts prepare for work at the space station.

[JPL] Comet collisions: only the strong survived?

[JHU] The mission of NEAR will close with the attempted landing on asteroid Eros.

[JPL] Mars Global Surveyor completes its primary science mission.

[CfA] Dark night sky used to estimate the number of Kuiper Belt Objects.

[STScI] Further evidence of an event horizon: gas spiraling into the black hole of Cygnus XR-1. - see also: Science@NASA

[Jodrell] Is the most massive companion to a pulsar a black hole?

[Harvard] X-ray observations uncover new evidence for event horizons surrounding black holes.

[NOAO] Survey of the stellar content in Local Group galaxies.

[JPL] Stardust camera cleaned - spacecraft can see clearly now.

[LBL] Search for Type Ia Supernovae.

[Harvard] X-ray observation associates pulsar with a historic supernova.

[ESO] Barnard 68: detailed structure of a nearby small interstellar dark cloud.

[Cornell] Water and oxygen are extremely rare in interstellar clouds.

[NSF] Oldest zirkon mineral suggest early water on the very young Earth.

[UCR] Solar power farm "Solar Two" changes into gamma ray observatory.

[UCSC] Extreme warp in the stellar disk of the Andromeda Galaxy.

[NRAO] Most detailed radio image of neutral hydrogen gas in the spiral galaxy M33.

[NASA] Planet formation: Building of large dust grains in the gas and dust disk around a young star.

[NAOA] Production of lithium in red giants.

[NASA] Large quasar group hints to largest structure in the distant universe.

[Yale] The Milky Way halo contains debris from small, ancient galaxies.

[JHU] Galaxy merger: Search for remnants of a satellite galaxy consumed by the Milky Way.

[LLNL] Microlensing observations support the existance of baryonic dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way.

[PSU] Detection of "superbubbles" in the interstellar medium of a distant galaxy.

[NRAO] Radio observations show details of a still-forming star.

[Harvard] NGC 6543: x-ray observations of the planetary Cat's Eye Nebula and its central star.

[NOAO] Abell 39: Rare spherical planetary nebula can help to understand the chemical compositions in stars.

[IfA] Eleven new moons for Jupiter.

[UW] Stardust prepares to pick up speed from Earth's gravity.

[Yale] 168 young stars near the Orion star forming complex detected.

[RAS] Dark matter: Completely dark galaxies.

[ESA] Molecular hydrogen in protoplanetary disks - new insights into the formation of giant gas planets.