Updated: 12:26 PM EDT (1626 GMT) -- October 13, 1999
Commercial spy satellite provides detailed images
An image taken by a new commercial satellite allows viewers to easily count the number of cars in a parking lot at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
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Commercial satellite's launch from sea is a first
An object that only 150 years ago was the second brightest star in the sky after our sun now burns strangely, emitting more energy from its outer layers than its superhot inner core, a scientist said Tuesday.
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Mars lander set for course adjustment on October 20
3 planet-hunters earn NASA's Michelson Fellowships
Galileo space probe flys by Jupiter's volcanic moon
Shuttle Discovery launch delayed again
Tiny moon found orbiting asteroid
China renews goals for human space flight
Hubble snaps clues about origin of spiral galaxies
3-2-1-Kaboom! Historic launch pad to be blown up
Absent shoreline challenges Mars water theory
Missile interceptor passes key test
Chemical that could power microbes is found at Jupiter moon
Mars probe mishap shows metric system still tripping up Americans
Uranus, Neptune may be diamond mines
New delay for next space station launch; shuttle schedule also uncertain
Pizza Hut buying slice of advertising's last frontier
Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter
Telescope finds 'power lines' in stellar remnant
Earth's core sizzles at 9,930 degrees
Astronomers find clues to solar system evolution
Gamma-ray bursts linked with stellar explosions
Stellar nursery in nearby galaxy teems with activity
Russia may sell time on International Space Station
Three panels to investigate Mars orbiter loss
Conditions ripe for more hurricanes, satellites show
U.S. satellite launched on Russian rocket
Lost probe was model of NASA's faster, cheaper space missions
NASA considers turning over space station to private enterprise
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