August 18, 2010 2:48 PM
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Eli Kintisch
Ocean color affects the formation of hurricanes--who knew?
August 13, 2010 3:59 PM
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Eli Kintisch
There's rare good news for the beleaguered U.S. environmental satellite fleet. Two years ago, officials with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a key weather...
August 13, 2010 11:15 AM
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Every 10 years, the U.S. astronomy community goes through the collective exercise of ranking its dream projects, hoping that a few of them will see the light of day...
August 12, 2010 3:56 PM
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Alexander Hellemans
With the increasing convergence of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, the European Space Agency (ESA) this week published a road map of space missions and technology development that it...
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Richard A. Kerr
NASA's mini fiasco in public communication last week was a scientist's attempt at public outreach gone awry. Kepler mission co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard University, speaking at the popular...
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Richard A. Kerr
NASA didn't plan it this way, but earlier this month a co-investigator on the Kepler satellite mission in the hunt for other Earth-like planets announced to a conference in...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
In yet another sign that Congress and the White House are a long way off from agreeing on NASA's fate, the House science committee is considering an authorization bill...
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Richard A. Kerr
A committee of the National Research Council warned today that steps recently taken by NASA to contain spiraling costs of future space missions won't be enough. The committee's report...
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Adrian Cho
In December, Science listed among the most exciting things to watch for this year the launch of a particle-physics experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
A House appropriations subcommittee has marked up a NASA budget of $19 billion for FY2011, which equals the amount requested by the Administration. That might sound like a stamp...
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Eli Kintisch
The Obama Administration has decided to leave a critical sunlight sensor off the first of a series of environmental satellites that have been plagued with technical problems, cost overruns,...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
President Barack Obama today released a National Space Policy that affirms the Administration's commitment to commercial space flight. The policy also lays down the mid-2030s as a target date...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
For some time now, the teams behind two rival megaprojects—the $1 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), led by the University of California, and the $700 million 24-meter Giant Magellan...
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Dennis Normile
TOKYO—The heart-warming story of the Hayabusa spacecraft, which overcame failed engines, degraded solar panels, fuel leaks, and faulty communications to touch down on asteroid Itokawa and return to Earth,...
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Richard A. Kerr
Team members in the hunt for Earth-size planets circling other stars released the identity and characteristics of 306 candidate exoplanets located using the Kepler spacecraft launched in March 2009....
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Eli Kintisch
Following a shellacking in the Senate 2 weeks ago, NASA brass pitching President Barack Obama's plan to reorient the U.S. space program took it on the chin from former...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
After cost overruns and delays that threatened to keep it grounded forever, a NASA airplane observatory is finally ready to take to the skies. Being launched today from Primdale Palmdale,...
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Eli Kintisch
NASA's Nuclear Compton Telescope, a balloon-borne telescope designed to study gamma-ray sources in outer space, plummeted to earth today while being launched from the Australlian Balloon Launch Station in...
April 27, 2010 11:24 AM
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Daniel Clery
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) officially announced yesterday that its next mammoth optical telescope, the 42-meter-wide European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will be built on Cerro Armazones, a mountain...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden today told a Senate spending panel that space science could suffer if the U.S. Congress forces NASA to stick with the Constellation program, which the...
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Antonio Regalado
Mexico's congress this week voted by a huge majority to create a new national space agency which could someday launch rockets from the Yucatan peninsula. The Agencia Espacial Mexicana...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
In a speech aimed at overcoming opposition to his new plan for NASA, President Barack Obama this afternoon announced an apparent compromise that would allow the agency to keep...
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Julia Galef
The American Museum of Natural History had little idea of how prescient they were being when they picked the theme for this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. Shortly after...
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John Bohannon
Starting this summer, a crew of six people will begin the journey to Mars—without leaving Earth. The Mars500 experiment will be a simulation of a 520-day round-trip visit to...
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Daniel Clery
Britain's beleaguered Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC), the government body which funds astronomy, particle and nuclear physics, and space science in the U.K., is to get new funding...
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Daniel Clery
The largest astronomical instrument in the world, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will likely be built at Cerro Armazones in northern Chile, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced...
February 24, 2010 5:25 PM
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
A Congressional panel led by Bill Nelson, the influential Democratic senator from Florida, flayed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden this afternoon over the Administration's proposal to cancel NASA's $3 billion...
February 19, 2010 11:38 AM
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Daniel Clery
The European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the planned 25 February launch of its CryoSat-2 spacecraft because of concerns about its launcher, a Russian Dnepr rocket. The Dnepr is a...
February 3, 2010 6:36 PM
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Eli Kintisch
The long and winding story of DSCOVR, the satellite proposed in 1998 by then-Vice President Al Gore and killed by the George W. Bush Administration, has taken a new...
February 2, 2010 9:55 AM
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Daniel Clery
Trouble is brewing in the process of deciding where to site the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), a next-generation optical telescope that will have a mirror 42 meters across...
February 1, 2010 9:39 AM
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
As many had expected, President Barack Obama has proposed terminating NASA's human space-flight program. Instead, the Administration's 2011 budget would provide money to the private sector for developing commercial...
January 28, 2010 1:05 PM
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Tim Wogan
R = Q x δ Astronomer Ivan Almar suggests the brief formula above might help scientists decide how to tell the world that we are not alone in the universe....
January 26, 2010 6:01 PM
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Adrian Cho
Colleagues remember Andrew Lange as a brilliant scientist with a large streak of generosity. A Caltech cosmologist known for his work on the general geometry of the early universe, Lange...
January 26, 2010 4:36 PM
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Phil Berardelli
The rover may have stopped roving, but its Spirit lives on. It's been quite a run for NASA's golf-cart-sized, solar-powered rover originally designed for a 90-day jaunt on the...
January 22, 2010 4:12 PM
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Richard A. Kerr
A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and...
January 19, 2010 1:05 PM
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Daniel Clery
The future doesn’t look sunny for Russia’s Koronas-Foton spacecraft, a solar observatory that has been having power system problems since last summer, culminating in a loss of contact in...
January 15, 2010 1:06 PM
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Daniel Clery
Jean-Jacques Dordain, director of the European Space Agency (ESA) has called for the backers of the international space station (ISS) to keep it flying beyond 2015, when current funding...
January 14, 2010 2:58 PM
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John Bohannon
Physicists from across Africa gathered this week in Dakar, Senegal, for a conference focused on lasers and optics. But radio astronomy dominated the chatter in the hallways. Africa has...
January 5, 2010 3:02 PM
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden today enthralled astronomers gathered at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., by telling them exactly what they wanted to hear, without providing an iota...
January 4, 2010 5:30 PM
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Eli Kintisch
As part of a 2010 spending bill passed in December, lawmakers set today as the deadline for the three federal agencies which manage the $15 billion National Polar-orbiting Operational...
