Peter Bond

Hello Mars, goodbye Hubble?

Successes at Mars make the promise of more money for space exploration appealing, but will other projects pay the price?Peter Bond reports.

Hubble's long view

Peter Bond brings a round-up of space news, including X-ray observations of the galactic centre, a new sort of black hole, targets within the expanding solar system, and Hubbles longest, deepest look back in time.

Ancient planets and cosmic vagabonds

Strange goings-on in space are revealed by powerful instruments in concert, observing the same phenomena at the same time and in consequence, revealing the inner workings of the stars. Peter Bond reports.

Continuing after Columbia

Peter Bond reports on reappraisal for NASA in the aftermath of the loss of the shuttle Columbia, refinement of an extrasolar planets mass and rethinking of ideas about water on Mars.

New names and old puzzles

Peter Bond returns with more news from current and future space missions, including a name for the next space telescope.

New frontiers and old puzzles

Peter Bond reports on new programmes for planetary exploration and successes in observation and research.

Sunspots and Mars frost

Peter Bond discusses the latest observations of the Sun and Mars and the possibilities for a Pluto mission, among other space news.

A solar system focus

Solar system exploration has been grabbing the headlines over the past few months, with the first triple spacecraft observations of Jupiter followed by the first landing on an asteroid. Peter Bond reports.

Solar storms, Mars and a comet's tail

Some spacecraft come to the end of their lives while others keep going on and on, writes Peter Bond.

From ACIS to Zamama

Image gets going, Chandra continues and Galileo goes on and on, reports Peter Bond, in his regular round-up.