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| Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God |
(Wed, 08 Sep 2010)
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Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.
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Author: By DWIGHT GARNER |
Category: Books and Literature |
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| Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged |
(Fri, 03 Sep 2010)
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Some scientists suggest carbon-based molecules may have been destroyed before the Viking landers could find them.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Mars (Planet) |
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| Nobel Winners Sign Letter Backing Obama Space Plan |
(Tue, 31 Aug 2010)
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The letter expresses support for the president’s proposed strategy for NASA and criticizes cuts contained in a NASA authorization bill now before the House.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| NASA Tests Engine With an Uncertain Future |
(Tue, 31 Aug 2010)
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NASA is revisiting the question of what rocket to build next and whether solid motors will be part of it.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Rockets and Rocket Propulsion |
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| Flyby |
(Fri, 27 Aug 2010)
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This chronicle of the innovative Voyager mission also ponders the nature and meaning of exploration itself.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Voyager Project |
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| Over a Billion Years, Scientists Find, the Moon Went Through a Shrinking Phase |
(Thu, 19 Aug 2010)
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Scientists say that the shrinking may have occurred over a billion years, and that the Moon will not shrink out of view in the future.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Moon |
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| National Briefing | South: Mississippi: Ex-Nasa Official Guilty of Conspiracy |
(Thu, 19 Aug 2010)
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Courtney Stadd, NASA’s former chief of staff, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Gulfport to conspiracy in a case stemming from a $600,000 contract for Mississippi State University, a client of his consulting firm.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Decisions and Verdicts |
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| Repair Made, Space Station Heads Back to Normal |
(Mon, 16 Aug 2010)
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With a replacement cooling pump successfully installed, the International Space Station’s electrical systems were largely expected to be returned to the usual configuration by Aug. 17.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: International Space Station |
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| Observatory: Water on Moon Unlikely, a New Study Indicates |
(Mon, 09 Aug 2010)
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A new study contradicts some recent reports that say the Moon had water at the time of its formation.
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Author: By SINDYA N. BHANOO |
Category: Moon |
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| Space Station Repair Delayed by Leaks |
(Sun, 08 Aug 2010)
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An unexpected ammonia leak derailed a marathon spacewalk to replace a faulty coolant system pump aboard the International Space Station.
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Author: By WILLIAM HARWOOD |
Category: International Space Station |
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| News Analysis: As Space Priorities Shift, Orbiting Station Takes On a Central Role |
(Tue, 03 Aug 2010)
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If the International Space Station were ever abandoned, the United States’ human spaceflight program would lose one of its last remaining reasons for being.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: International Space Station |
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| National Briefing | Space: Space Walkers Will Sit It Out Another Day |
(Thu, 05 Aug 2010)
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A spacewalk to replace a broken coolant pump on the International Space Station has been delayed another day to Saturday morning.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space |
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| Essay: Rumors in Astrophysics Spread at Light Speed |
(Thu, 05 Aug 2010)
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On the Web, whispers of the next big discovery quickly become roars, even when there’s nothing to roar about.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Rumors |
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| With a Glimmer of a Chance, Stardust Is Identified |
(Tue, 03 Aug 2010)
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Scientists may have identified three specks of interstellar dust that just flew into the solar system, a prospect that was initially deemed hopeless.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space |
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| Space Station Repair Work Is Scheduled |
(Mon, 02 Aug 2010)
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Two astronauts are scheduled to venture out early Friday to begin repairs on the cooling system of the International Space Station.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: International Space Station |
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| Space Station Malfunction Prompts Shutdowns |
(Mon, 02 Aug 2010)
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One of two coolant systems aboard the International Space Station malfunctioned, setting off alarms.
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Author: By WILLIAM HARWOOD |
Category: International Space Station |
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| Hints of Earth Splash a Saturnian Moon Landscape |
(Tue, 27 Jul 2010)
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The discovery that Titan’s lakes are evaporating, at least in the Southern Hemisphere, suggests that there are active weather and geological cycles analogous to those on Earth.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Saturn (Planet) |
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| Teams of Physicists Closing in on the ‘God Particle’ |
(Wed, 28 Jul 2010)
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The data from two separate experiments at Fermilab narrow the range in which the Higgs boson, if it exists, must be hiding.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
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| Star May Be Heaviest Ever Discovered |
(Thu, 22 Jul 2010)
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A huge ball of burning gas may be the heaviest star ever found.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Stars and Galaxies |
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| House Panel’s NASA Spending Bill Cuts Back Obama Plan |
(Tue, 20 Jul 2010)
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President Obama planned to spur a commercial market for the launching of people into space and direct the agency to continue developing its own rocket.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Discovers Surprises on Mercury |
(Mon, 19 Jul 2010)
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Images suggest that Mercury was volcanically active well into its middle age, given that it formed 4.5 billion years ago with the rest of the solar system.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Mercury (Planet) |
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| A Scientist Takes On Gravity |
(Tue, 13 Jul 2010)
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A string theorist is not tethered to the notion of gravity, saying the force is a consequence of thermodynamics.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Gravitation and Gravity |
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| Senate Committee’s NASA Plan Cuts Moon Program |
(Thu, 15 Jul 2010)
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The outline, which has White House support, includes investment in commercial partners and development of new spacecraft.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| National Briefing | Space: NASA Not Faulted in Manager’s Removal |
(Tue, 17 Aug 2010)
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NASA did nothing improper in removing the head of its return-to-the-moon program, the agency’s inspector general told Congress on Tuesday.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| For a Proton, a Little Off the Top (or Side) Could Be Big Trouble |
(Tue, 13 Jul 2010)
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A subatomic particle that anchors atoms and is the building block of all ordinary matter is 4 percent smaller, an experiment shows.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: proton |
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| Senate Panel Near Agreement on Bill to Roll Back NASA Changes |
(Thu, 08 Jul 2010)
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The bill would reverse large swaths of President Obama’s proposed changes to NASA’s human space flight program.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Satellite Launching Is Scrubbed |
(Tue, 06 Jul 2010)
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The launching of a new Air Force space surveillance satellite was delayed due to a software problem in a rocket similar to the one that will lift the satellite into orbit.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Satellites |
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| X-Ray Laser Resurrects a Laboratory No Longer in the Vanguard |
(Tue, 06 Jul 2010)
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In a shift from particle physics to photon science, an outdated accelerator in Menlo Park, Calif., was converted into the world’s brightest X-ray laser.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
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| In a Space Probe’s Journey, a Test for Japan |
(Tue, 06 Jul 2010)
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Japan’s hopes for a bigger share of the global market for satellites and other space infrastructure may rest on an asteroid mission with only qualified success.
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Author: By HIROKO TABUCHI |
Category: Space |
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| National Briefing | Space: NASA Extends Its Shuttle Countdown |
(Fri, 02 Jul 2010)
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The end of the space shuttle era will be extended until early 2011.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space Shuttle |
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| Obama Reverses Bush’s Space Policy |
(Wed, 30 Jun 2010)
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A new space policy renounces the unilateral stance of the Bush administration, emphasizing global cooperation.
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Author: By WILLIAM J. BROAD and KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space |
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| At Companies Tied to NASA, Casualties of a Changing Mission |
(Fri, 25 Jun 2010)
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Workers are caught in a conflict between Congress, which has banned NASA from canceling any part of a new lunar mission, and program managers who have been told to scale back.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| Panel Demands NASA Documents to Support Budget |
(Thu, 17 Jun 2010)
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A Congressional committee is demanding that the space agency provide a host of records related to its budget request for 2011.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| In the Hunt for Planets, Who Owns the Data? |
(Mon, 14 Jun 2010)
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As excitement builds about a list of stars newly suspected of harboring planets, some astronomers are questioning why the Kepler team is holding back some of the data.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Stars and Galaxies |
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| World Briefing | Asia: Kazakhstan: 3-Man Rocket Departs for Space Station |
(Tue, 15 Jun 2010)
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A Russian rocket carrying two astronauts from the United States and one from Russia lifted off successfully from Kazakhstan, bound for the international space station.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: International Space Station |
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| Contractors Told to Prepare for Moon Program’s End |
(Thu, 10 Jun 2010)
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NASA has scaled back the work it will do in the coming months on its program to return astronauts to the moon, telling contractors to set aside money to cover its potential cancellation.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| In New Space Race, Enter the Entrepreneurs |
(Tue, 08 Jun 2010)
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A Nevada company is preparing the solar system’s first private space station.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Bigelow Aerospace |
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| For Mission to Mars, a New Road Map |
(Tue, 08 Jun 2010)
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NASA officials presented their latest views on carrying out President Obama proposed space policy.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Mars (Planet) |
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| Private Rocket Has Successful First Flight |
(Sat, 05 Jun 2010)
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A privately developed rocket that may eventually carry NASA astronauts to space took off Friday afternoon in what appeared to be an almost flawless flight.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space |
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| 8 Scientists Share $3 Million in Prizes |
(Thu, 03 Jun 2010)
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The Kavli Prizes acknowledge their work in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Science and Technology |
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| National Briefing | South: Florida: Private Company Readies Rocket |
(Thu, 03 Jun 2010)
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A multimillionaire’s newest rocket is poised to blast off Friday from Cape Canaveral in a trial run of what the pioneering company hopes to do for NASA once the shuttles stop flying.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Space |
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| About New York: To Take Baby Pictures of the Universe, Click Here |
(Wed, 02 Jun 2010)
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A telescope will be sent a million miles from Earth to collect images that have been traveling since nearly the beginning of the universe.
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Author: By JIM DWYER |
Category: Grunsfeld, John |
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| Approaching Space Center, and End of Line for Shuttle Program |
(Mon, 31 May 2010)
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With a train’s delivery of solid-fuel booster segments to Florida, the program has just two trips left.
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Author: By WILLIAM HARWOOD |
Category: Kennedy Space Center |
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| Observatory: New Evidence on Mars Formations |
(Mon, 31 May 2010)
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There are two striking features on the Northern ice caps of Mars that have intrigued scientists.
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Author: By SINDYA N. BHANOO |
Category: Mars (Planet) |
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| Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet |
(Thu, 26 Aug 2010)
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NASA scientists said the body, 1.5 times the diameter of Earth, orbits a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Planets |
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| Books of The Times: All the Right Stuff and the Gross Stuff |
(Sun, 08 Aug 2010)
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Mary Roach’s book “Packing for Mars” delights in the fringe material associated with astronauts’ life in space.
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Author: By JANET MASLIN |
Category: Space |
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| Astral Bodies |
(Sat, 28 Aug 2010)
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Highlights of Mary Roach’s look at the way humans adapt to spacefaring include zestful accounts of human-waste disposal, body odor control and astral sexual desire.
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Author: By M. G. LORD |
Category: Books and Literature |
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| Exhibition Review: Marveling at Wonders Out of This World |
(Thu, 05 Aug 2010)
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An exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum features 148 extraordinary photographs of moons and planets.
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Author: By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN |
Category: National Air and Space Museum |
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| Out of This World, Out of Our Minds |
(Tue, 17 Aug 2010)
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How did you celebrate World U.F.O. Day? You didn’t? Dang.
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Author: By JOHN SCHWARTZ |
Category: Planets |
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