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Spaceships powered by black holes or dark matter may be the future of stellar exploration. The radical proposals, put forward by physicists in two American universities, are hoped to make visits to other stars in our galaxy plausible.
Space capsules? That's right, instead of following the Shuttles with something as capable - something that can guarantee American space leadership - we're going to race China, India, and Russia in a competition to build a limited and ungainly spacecraft that America retired a gen …
Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again.
There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday, and considerable amounts of it.
IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system.
The apocalypse is not scheduled for December 21, 2012, according to NASA.
Americans want and deserve a space program that is actually going somewhere and is worth the risk and monetary costs. In order for that to happen, a radically different methodology to that being accepted by the Augustine Commission must be employed.
Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox.
Researchers hunting for signs of life beyond Earth have long been drawn to Europa because several features of the moon's icy surface — including its bright color, networks of long fractures and crater-free terrain — suggest that the moon contains a vast ocean buried under t …
Humans could orbit Mars in the 2020s, says a panel appointed by the White House – but only if NASA's budget is boosted.
The first nautical exploration of an extraterrestrial sea could come as soon as 2022, if a team of researchers can convince NASA to try sailing a boat on an alien world.
Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it's not even the coldest place in the solar system. Dark craters near the moon's south pole have snatched that title – which is good news for the prospects of finding water ice on Earth's companion.
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
PROMONTORY, UT - NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's Constellation Program.
CAPE CANAVERAL, AFS - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the top-secret PAN satellite at 5:35 p.m. EDT, today from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V rocket carried a U.S.
By Robert S. Boyd, McClatchy Newspapers Robert S. Boyd, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Thu Sep 3, 4:35 pm ET
In 1961, the Cold War raged, and for a confrontation that didn't involve combat or military assault it was pretty damned scary.
The largest stumbling block to a consideration of one-way missions is probably political. NASA and Congress are unlikely to do something that could be perceived as signing the death warrants of astronauts.
(With Video) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Racing to orbit atop a manmade Sun through the midnight skies above Florida last night, space shuttle Discovery finally blasted off on a mission to deliver new science equipment and a now-famous treadmill to the International Space Station …
If NASA's human space exploration was managed better, the result would be a humans to Mars program costing under $40 billion, with first flight possible before the end of Mr. Obama's prospective second term.
NASA has spent four years developing its next rocket, the Ares I, and is due to perform its first real test of the new system at the end of October. (For more background about Ares I and the Constellation program, see my recent interview with program manager Jeff Hanley).
NASA scientists have found compelling new evidence that life may be common in the universe and not just special to Earth. They discovered one of the basic building blocks of life in samples of a comet that a spacecraft brought back to Earth.
As many of you know or have perhaps heard in the news, President Obama has formed a commission to make recommendations for the future of the U.S. space program called the Augustine Commission. On August 5, 2009, Dr.
For just less than a decade, NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency's big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka's factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle's garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back.