[NASA] Micro-magnets in the Allan Hills Mars meteorite ALH84001 may be evidence for ancient microscopic life on Mars.

[ESO] The Paranal Metamorphosis: From mountain top to top observatory.

[ESA] Mars Express: Beagle 2 landing site selected

[Berkeley] Strong localized magnetic fields on Mars may protect the planet's atmosphere.

[ESA] ESA's "Herschel" (launch: 2007) shall shed light on the mysterious transneptunian objects

[ESA] ESA's FIRST infrared space telescope to be re-named "Herschel Space Observatory".

[spaceViews] Russian reactions to MIR's planned demise next year.

[CSIRO] First Light for upgraded Australia Telescope.

[ESA] X-ray observations of the remotest quasar with redshift 5.80.

[UA] Possibly 2nd brightest known Trans-Neptunian Object discovered

[ESA] Europe plays a major part in future Mars exploration.

[ESA] Huygens helps Cassini to meet Galileo at Jupiter

[Harvard] X-ray observations of protoplanetary disks and very hot young stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster.

[Harvard] X-Ray flares of protostars in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud.

[Harvard] GRB991216: X-ray emission lines from the gamma ray burst strengthen the case for a hypernova model.

[ESO] GRB 000131: The most remote gamma-ray burst so far.

[spaceViews] New Web page seeks support for Pluto-Kuiper Express.

[ESA] Huygens communication problems may result in loss of data.

[JPL] Cassini's first image of Jupiter.

[spaceViews] Potential lack of Progress resupply ships poses new danger to the russian space station MIR.

[spaceViews] NASA's next mission to Mars will be named "2001 Mars Odyssey".

[CalTech] Palomar Testbed Interferometer: New techniques to refine cosmic measurements.

[NASA] Square-shaped craters on asteroid 433 Eros.

[U.Arizona] New wide field camera at the MMT Observatory on Mt. Hopkins.

[JHU] Scientific findings about asteroid 433 Eros from the first half of the NEAR mission.

[spaceViews] Hopes given up for the japanese x-ray observatory ASCA.

[ESO] Star forming region in M17 - young and massive stars in the Omega Nebula.

[ESA] XMM and Chandra - joint observations of the X-ray Observatories.

[ESA] Ulysses returns to the Sun's south pole.

[JPL] Computer simulations may explain deep holes in Jupiter's clouds.

[ESA] The proto-planetary nebula CRL 618 shows the transition phase between red giants and planetary nebulae.

[NRAO] First light for the Green Bank Telescope.

[JHU] NEAR moves up in a higher orbit of 100 km.

[STScI] Most complete catalog up-to-date of brown dwarfs.

[RAS] Mid-mass black hole in the core of NGC 4395 radiates as many x-rays as supermassive black holes.

[ESA] A new generation of Gallium Arsenide detectors for X-ray imaging and spectroscopy.

[NAOJ] The "High Dispersion Spectrograph" (HDS) on the Subaru Telescope has seen first light.

[spaceViews] Progress cargo spacecraft docked to ISS.

[U.Texas] Discovery of a Jupiter-mass extrasolar planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani.

[spaceViews] Ten new extrasolar planets. Multiple-planet solar systems may be common.

[IAC] Comet LINEAR: evaporation of all the ice causes the nucleus to fall apart.

[U.Greenwich] Doubt on former primitive life on Mars: chemical structures found in meteorites can form easily.

[spaceViews] Pluto mission may in danger of cancellation.

[ESO] Most distant novae ever seen in a Fornax cluster galaxy.

[ESA] Infrared observations of an early stage of formation of a planetary system with a central hot object.

[NASA] NASA plans to launch a Mars rover in 2003.

[NASA] Rescue by new software: Deep Space 1 again is on its way to meeting comet Borrelly in September 2001.

[ESA] The first Cluster II pair have successfully reached their final elliptical orbit.

[IAC] First light from INGRID - the "Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device" on the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma.

[JHU] NEAR completes mapping of Eros.

[ESO] The Republic of Portugal will become the ninth member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

[NAOJ] 0.3 Arcsec Imaging with Suprime-Cam of the Subaru Telescope.

[BBC] Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: some solar neutrinos during the first six months of full SNO operation.

[Cornell] Asteroid hazard: new study of the inner solar system estimates that only 40% of 900 large asteroids near Earth have been discovered.

[NASA] Galileo Status: Galileo leaves Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere and has now entered the solar wind.

[spaceViews] MirCorp announces first space tourist to MIR.

[UTexas] Mauna Kea master plan approved: new astronomy facilities limitied to three sites.

[spaceViews] MIR cosmonauts return to Earth.

[NRAO] Sugar molecules in Sagittarius B2, a large cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way.

[spaceViews] The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) won't fly until the end of the decade.

[Cornell] How neutron stars are accelerated at birth - by asymmetrical mass ejection or neutrinos?

[UTexas] Interstellar clouds yield clues to the origins of the element lithium.

[spaceViews] Liquid water could exist in faults close to the surface of Europa.

[Harvard] NGC 1275 (Perseus A): Galaxy cannibalism - x-ray shadow of a small galaxy falling into Perseus A.

[ESA] Infrared observations of the Milky Way centre by ISO: 100.000 red giants newly identified.

[MPG] Type Ia Supernova Simulations.

[USNO] New optical interferometer used for direct radius measurements of Polaris.

[JHU] One of NEAR's six scientific instruments, the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIS), has been turned off.

[Harvard] Planetary nebula BD+30 3639: First X-ray observation of a "hot bubble" of gas surrounding a dying, sun-like star.

[Harvard] Radio galaxy Pictor A: Spectacular x-ray jet over 800.000 light years.

[STScI] NGC 4438: Central black hole blows huge bubbles of hot gas into space.

[Harvard] NGC 4151: X-ray spectrum shows large gas cloud blown apart by radiation pressure from the central black hole.

[Rutgers] Supermassive black holes may occur in pairs at the centers of many galaxies.

[ESA] XMM detects previously unknown distant cluster of galaxies.

[CU] Binary system HR 1099: a new type of stellar flare detected.

[SwRI] First detection of a noble gas in a comet and new clues to the origin of Hale-Bopp.

[NASA] Compton Gamma Ray Observatory returns to Earth.

[NASA] Yukon meteorite: Over 400 fragments recovered.

[JPL] Dynamic terrain and active volcanoes on Io.

[spaceViews] Deorbiting of the Gamma Ray Observatory: first burn completed.

[Cornell] Eros may be a relic of solar system's birth - NEAR observes for the first time the chemical composition of an asteroid.

[spaceViews] STS-101: Shuttle Atlantis lands in Florida after mission to the International Space Station.

[BBC] Compton Gamma Ray Observatory: Save our Satellite.

[spaceViews] NASA moving ahead with plans to deorbit Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

[spaceViews] STS-101: Shuttle crew completes work inside ISS.

[ESA] Intensive observing campaign in Spain to follow up ISO discoveries.

[ESO] VLT Interferometer News.

[BBC] Martian meteorite found in Oman.

[BBC] Astronomers want bigger telescopes.

[NASA] Galileo Status: successfull Ganymede flyby.

[NASA] STS-101: Launch of Atlantis - the space shuttle is on its way to the International Space Station.

[NRAO] Plans for the expansion of the "Very Large Array (VLA)" by 8 more antennas.

[NRAO] US National Academy of Sciences recommends continued support of the "Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)".

[NRAO] 20th Anniversary of the Very Large Array.

[Harvard] Chandra x-ray observations of the "Hubble Deep Field".

[NASA] Final report on the destruction of HESSI.

[BBC] MIR cosmonauts on space walk test new glue to seal cracks in the hull.

[NSF] First observations of cosmological shear and distribution of dark matter by weak gravitational lensing.

[RAS] New type of brown dwarfs discovered - closing the gap between warmer star-like und cooler planet-like types.

[spaceViews] Scientists ask NASA to keep Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in orbit.

[ESA] Open cluster NGC 2516 used as calibration target for XMM-Newton.

[JHU] NEAR now in ideal observing orbit 50 km above Eros.

[JPL] 216 Kleopatra: First radar images of a bone-shaped main belt asteroid.

[ESA] The flybys around Venus and the Earth provided a calibration opportunity for the instruments aboard Huygens and Cassini.

[ESO] IC3328: Well developed spiral structure within a normal dwarf elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster detected.

[JPL] Io's volcanoes are the main source of dust streams from the Jupiter system into the solar system.

[MPG] Tarlike macro-molecules detected in 'stardust'.

[spaceViews] Progress launched to MIR.

[UH] Eleven observatory facilities on Mauna Kea now accessible over Internet2 networks.

[spaceViews] Russian president pledges support for MIR and ISS.

[ESO] First Visiting Astronomers at VLT KUEYEN.

[STScI] The planetary nebula NGC 6751 (Hubble Heritage Project).

[spaceViews] Soyuz docks with MIR.

[NASA] HESSI damaged during vibration tests.

[UH] Fullerenes can be carrier of extraterrestrial noble gases - see also: News of the NASA NEO program.

[NOAO] 8.1-meter mirror arrived safely at the Gemini South Observatory on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

[spaceViews] Actor will not fly on MIR.

[NASA] International Space Station: NASA splits Shuttle mission STS-101 in two flights.

[NASA] STS-99: Radar mapping of the Earth can continue as planned until Sunday.

[ESO] Infrared VLT observations identify hidden galaxies in the early universe.

[spaceViews] 433 Eros is no ordinary asteroid.

[spaceViews] International Space Station: Russia not only cause of ISS delays.

[JPL] Radio telescopes have shown no obvious signal from Mars Polar Lander.

[NASA] STS-99: Shuttle crew deploys SRTM mast and prepares for mapping.

[NASA] STS-99: Launch of Endeavour with the 'Shuttle Radar Topography Mission'.

[NASA] International Space Station: Launch of russian service module Zvezda scheduled between July 8-14.

[ESA] First pictures from the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton.

[JHU] NEAR goes into orbit around asteroid 433 Eros on February 14.

[JHU] NEAR rendezvous burn a success.

[spaceViews] Progress cargo spacecraft successfully docked with MIR.

[JHU] NEAR rendezvous burn delayed - spacecraft went into a safe hold.

[spaceViews] European radio telescopes will start listening for Mars Polar Lander signals on Friday.

[spaceViews] NEAR begins final approach to Eros.

[spaceViews] Russia launches unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft to MIR.

[spaceViews] Cassini performs asteroid flyby.

[spaceViews] Mars Polar Lander team investigating possible signal.

[JPL] Stardust completes maneuver that put it on course for a flyby of the Earth next year.

[spaceViews] Deep Space 1 on road to recovery.

[spaceViews] Mars missions investigation continues at Lockheed Martin.

[spaceViews] Russia will keep MIR in orbit through at least August.

[STScI] The planetary dust disk around Beta Pictoris hides giant elliptical ring system.

[Harvard] Chandra X-ray Observatory finds a "cool" black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy.

[Harvard] Chandra discovers a faint X-ray source at the center of our Galaxy.

[Harvard] E0102-72: X-ray observation of a supernova remnant revealed an expanding ring-like structure of oxygen and neon.

[Harvard] X-ray observation of nearly a thousand faint young stars in the Orion nebula is the richest field of X-ray sources ever obtained.

[NRAO] Dramatic outburst of x-ray nova: the microquasar V4641 Sgr is the nearest black hole 1600 lightyears away.

[LLNL] First adaptive optics infrared images of Neptune and Titan taken at Keck Observatory.

[STScI] NGC 7635: New images show inner structure of the "Bubble Nebula".

[CfA] Betelgeuse's chromosphere oscillates asymmetrically.

[CfA] New distance measurement of the Large Magellanic Cloud with "Red Clump" stars leads to cosmological controversy.

[CfA] Ammonia molecules in the galactic center shows how giant molecular clouds provide the circum-nuclear disk with gas and dust.