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- New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos
- WASHINGTON AFP — A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said. The US space agency released Tuesday the first all-sky map created by...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Saturn's geyser-spewing moon stumps science
- Frozen iceball or hidden ocean? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has renewed debate among planetary scientists over Saturn's geyser-spewing mystery moon, Enceladus. Cassini mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have begun unveiling images of a 40,000-mph pass over Enceladus last week. The flyby, which...
- Research articles 2008-08-18
- In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S
- On July 21, at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, members of the European astronomy community participated in a discussion about why their space program has failed to engage public interest in a manner comparable to programs in the United States. Organized by Dirk Lorenzen, a physicist turned journalist...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- NASA probe confirms water on Mars
- LOS ANGELES AFP — NASA scientists said Thursday the Phoenix lander exploring Mars had confirmed water on the planet after analysis of a soil sample from the Red planet's surface. The discovery was made after the lander's robotic arm delivered a sample this week to an instrument onboard the...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA
- LOS ANGELES AFP — NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface. The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Phoenix scientists soon will analyze Martian ice
- WASHINGTON AFP — Scientists with the US Phoenix lander will make their first analysis of Martian ice fragments in coming days but it could be the last done in one of the probe's small ovens, NASA said on its website Friday. A team of engineers and scientists were trying...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Satellite to shed light on global warming
- BELTSVILLE, Md. -- NASA plans to launch a new satellite next year that will help scientists fill in a gap in their understanding of global warming: the role of clouds and airborne particles. The satellite Glory, targeted for launch in June, will give scientists a much better...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Martian soil good enough for asparagus: NASA
- WASHINGTON AFP — Martian dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said Thursday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander. "There is nothing about the soil that would preclude life. In fact it seems very...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- Scientists feel sure of ice on Mars
- WASHINGTON AFP — Analysis of images from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scientists increasingly convinced of ice near the Red Planet's North Pole, a NASA statement said Friday. Small pieces of a bright material "have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- Falling dirt on Mars lifts spirits at NASA
- LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was not the only one doing the shaking. Scientists operating the spacecraft broke into song and dance on Wednesday after learning that their latest effort to shake lumps of Martian soil into a tiny testing oven worked. Mission scientist...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- GLAST telescope to open new window on the universe
- WASHINGTON AFP — A hi-tech telescope NASA plans to launch on Wednesday hopes to fling open a new window on the Universe, exploring extreme sources of gamma-rays that point to powerful and exotic phenomena. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, will search for energy blasts that point...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- NASA's Phoenix lander is probing soil at Mars' north pole
- After nearly two weeks of testing and preparation, NASA's Phoenix lander on Friday began its first day of science operations at Mars' north pole. The Lander's robotic arm delivered a cup of soil to an oven that will search for evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. ...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Mars probe Phoenix digs up first sample of Martian soil
- WASHINGTON AFP — Nearly two weeks after its historic landing, the US Mars probe Phoenix has scooped up its first sample of Martian soil and begun analyzing it for water and organic compounds, a NASA official said. The 200-milliliter (12 cubic inches) of Martian earth is topped by a...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- GLAST telescope launch scheduled for June 11: NASA
- WASHINGTON AFP — A NASA spokesman on Thursday said that the launch of its GLAST space telescope, which will allow scientists to look deep into the universe, has been delayed until Wednesday June 11 at the earliest. It is the third time the GLAST launch had been delayed, this...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Release of robotic arm on Mars lander begins
- TUCSON, Ariz. -- Scientists began releasing the robotic arm on NASA's new Mars spacecraft on Wednesday, one day late because of a radio problem. The Phoenix lander, which arrived on Mars on Sunday, is in excellent shape, said project manager Barry Goldstein. He said the communications glitch was...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- NASA probe sends first pictures from Martian arctic
- WASHINGTON, AFP — A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet. After NASA's Phoenix Mars probe made a near perfect landing at the Martian polar region late Sunday, scientists pored...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- NASA spacecraft Phoenix touches down on Mars
- The Phoenix Mars Mission has survived the fiery atmosphere of the Red Planet and transmitted a signal back to Earth, the first indication the spacecraft may have made a successful landing. Scientists who have been nervously awaiting the end of the 10- month journey erupted in cheers and...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist
- WILMINGTON, Delaware AFP — Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA's top climate scientist says. "We've already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," James Hansen,...
- Research articles 2008-04-06
- Cassini Tastes Organic Material at Saturn's Geyser Moon
- To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Carolina Martinez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov PASADENA, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- Saturn moon may have its own ring, in a lunar first
- WASHINGTON AFP — Saturn's second largest moon Rhea could have at least one ring, the first to be discovered around a planet's satellite, researchers reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected around Rhea by...
- Research articles 2008-03-07
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