NASA's Moon-Mars Initiative Harms Science: American Physical Society Report
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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By Michael P. Kleiman  Predicting the harmful effects of space weather on a U.S. military asset or mission has been advanced with the delivery of a prototype that combines environmental information with system specifications and thresholds.
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GET AN EXTRA STURDY UMBRELLA: Scientists studying data from a European space probe say Titan, Saturn's largest moon, apparently is lashed regularly by rain made of liquid methane that erodes the surface.
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(Pasadena, Calif.-AP, December 25, 2004) - Scientists at NASA&#39;s jet propulsion lab are anxiously awaiting to see if a probe will make its rendezvous with Saturn&#39;s largest moon.
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Hundreds of U.S. scientists have challenged a recent decision by an international astronomy group to strip Pluto of its planetary status with a petition rejecting its definition of what constitutes a planet.
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By The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 7--This past week the Bush administration put a down payment on its promise to return astronauts to the moon and eventually land a manned vehicle on Mars.
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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The UK-led Beagle 2 team which tried to put a lander on the surface of Mars last year has published the findings of its own inquiry into what went wrong.
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Orbiting the Moon is tricky.  There's a big planet nearby (Earth) that tugs on satellites and destabilizes their orbits.  NASA researchers have an idea for a new class of orbits that may solve the problem.
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Hundreds of U.S. scientists have   challenged a recent decision by an international astronomy   group to strip Pluto of its planetary status with a petition   rejecting its definition of what constitutes a planet.
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The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night.
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BALTIMORE- A physics Nobel Laureate issued a scathing critique today of NASA&#39;s manned spaceflight program and questioned the scientific usefulness of the International Space Station (ISS).
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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Moon or Mars, or both? Economic incentives of politcal? And who will lead the way?
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Sniffing out any whiff of biology on Mars has become a scientific battle of the bands - spectral bands that is. The purported detection of methane in the martian atmosphere by Mars Express, the European
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U.S. scientists will soon lose much of their ability in space to monitor for global warming, a confidential report to the White House warns.
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Saturn's moon Titan is covered by  "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of  scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data  from the space probe Huygens.