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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's sun-baked innermost planet, scientists said.
MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A NASA probe made its second Mercury flyby early Monday as closes in on the closest planet to the sun.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has picked 10 U.S. teams to study the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. Each interdisciplinary team receives a five-year grant averaging $7 million and becomes a member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute, located at NASA's Ames Research Center. Selected are teams from the University...
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19.
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address on Friday, Oct. 10, at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Animation courtesy Michael Ronayne. Click for larger, slower speed animation NASA’s David Hathway just recently updated his solar cycle prediction and has pushed cycle 24 into the future a little more once again. Though to read his latest update on 10/03/08 at his prediction page here, you wouldn’t know it, because the page is mostly tech [...]
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASA's Messenger spacecraft flew within 125 miles of the planet Mercury early this morning. Mission managers in Maryland said the spacecraft appears to be on course and in good health.
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama Spend-O-Meter , Republican National Committee "Obama Has Proposed $2 Billion In Additional NASA Funding. "Sen. Barack Obama has detailed a comprehensive space plan that includes $2 billion in new funding to reinvigorate NASA and a promise to make space exploration and science a significantly higher priority if he is elected president." (Marc Kaufman, "Obama Suggests $2 Billion In New Funding...
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The first U.S. spacecraft designed to explore the extreme outer solar system is ready for launch....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver the keynote address in Chicago this week marking NASA's final Future Forum. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Dale will deliver the address Friday at Adler Planetarium. The event marks the final Future Forum, part of a yearlong series celebrating the space agency's 50th anniversary. The forum...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The first U.S. spacecraft designed to explore the extreme outer solar system is ready for launch. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Interstellar Boundary Explorer -- or IBEX -- spacecraft will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind reaches the cold expanse of space. The two-year mission will begin Oct. 19 when...
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The object, named COROT-exo-3b, is so exotic, ESA scientists said they are unsure whether the oddity is a planet or a failed star....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
PARIS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says the COROT spacecraft has discovered a massive planet-sized object that's unlike anything previously spotted. The object, named COROT-exo-3b, is so exotic, ESA scientists said they are unsure whether the oddity is a planet or a failed star. The object is about the size of Jupiter but has more than 20 times the mass. It takes 4 days, 6 hours to orbit...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
With half a century of amazing accomplishments behind it, NASA is entering a second space age beset by uncertainty and searching for renewal.
