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Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler |
Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter. |
Popular Mechanics November 19, 2009 Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner |
NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford |
Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn. |
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever |
Icy Methane Volcano on Titan New images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's largest satellite are now revealing what researchers think is evidence of a large volcano on Titan that could be erupting methane. |
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone? |
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole. |
Geotimes December 2004 |
A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Toth & Turyshev |
Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly Thirty years ago, the first spacecraft sent to explore the outer solar system started slowing unexpectedly. Now we finally know what happened |
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Saturn Surprises with Southern Storm Earth, Jupiter and Venus have all been observed to support giant, rotating storm masses. Now, astronomers have found that Saturn, too, boasts a hurricane-like structure at its south pole. |
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system. |
Geotimes March 2006 |
Liftoff for New Horizons After a one-day delay due to windy weather, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully launched Jan. 19 aboard an Atlas V rocket, en route to Pluto. Scientists hope that the mission will drastically increase what is known about the faraway planet. |
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Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA. |
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz |
Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed. |
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin |
Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake. |
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein |
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets. |
Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Space: Alien Worlds Finding Earth Analogues in Space: Q&A with planetary scientist David Stevenson. |
AskMen.com |
NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale |
Electronic Pieces of NASA's Next Mars Mission Are Coming Together Designers of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007. Phoenix team members are beginning to add complex subsystems such as the flight computer, power systems, and science instruments to the main structure of the spacecraft. |
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff |
NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles. |
AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
Satellite manages sensors with Maxwell computer The single-board computer will manage payload data for NASA's Glory mission, a three-year mission to investigate the composition of greenhouse gases and effect of solar radiation on the Earth's environment. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mason Peck |
Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
AskMen.com |
Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA's New Spacecraft Will Touch The Sun Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will literally touch the surface of the sun. |
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Noah Shachtman |
How NASA's New Telescope Chases Planets NASA is launching its first-ever planet-hunting mission next year, sending the Kepler spacecraft on a quest to find 1000 more planets -- and 50 new Earths. |
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale |
Phoenix Mars mission uses Actel RTAX-S FPGAs The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station which is used to acquire, process and transmit temperature and pressure data to scientists and researchers back on Earth. |
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi |
Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole. |
Popular Mechanics January 2009 Michael Milstein |
World's Hardiest Organisms to Face 3 Years in Space When a Russian spacecraft sets off late this year to scrape samples of the Martian moon Phobos, at least 10 of Earth's toughest life-forms will be going along for the ride. |
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results. |
Fast Company February 2011 Michael Silverberg |
Orbit: NASA's Space-Shuttle Program Ends As the $115 billion reusable-orbital program retires, let's look back at six notable missions from its 30-year history. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye |
NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US. |
Science News October 29, 2005 |
Spooky Sounds of Saturn These NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Web pages provide sound files based on magnetometer data from Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's moon Enceladus and more. |
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman |
Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars. |
Popular Mechanics June 20, 2008 Matt Sullivan |
As Phoenix Lander Finds Ice on Mars, Could a Real E.T. Be Next? In a breakthrough that likely provides scientists with their best opportunity ever to investigate extraterrestrial life, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has apparently spotted liquid ice on Mars. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle. |