Space News Archive - January 04, 2012

Virgin Galactic is becoming more active in the commercial space industry by moving staffers to its New Mexico spaceport location.

Discover ESA’s ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat application. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.

A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground.

According to a new study, crystals found in Russia's Koryak mountains two years ago may have come from space.