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April 15, 2010 5:07 PM
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Obama Offers Compromise on Space Plan, Jobs Initiative
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...
March 16, 2010 5:35 PM
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Moon vs. Mars at Museum
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...
Mars Mission (On Earth) Survives Budget Squeeze, Faces Fake Flares
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...
March 4, 2010 2:46 PM
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U.K. Research Council Protected by Funding Changes
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...
Chile Poised to Host Biggest Telescope in the World
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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White House Space Plans Under Fire
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...
Rocket Snag Will Delay Launch of Spacecraft to Monitor Polar Ice
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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Obama Rescues Al Gore's Earth Satellite for Sun Duty ... and Maybe More
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...
"Extremely Large Telescope" Causes Rather Considerable Heartache
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...
Obama Proposes Ending NASA's Human Space-Flight Program
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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If E.T. Rings, Let It Go to Voicemail?
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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Cosmologist Andrew Lange Remembered
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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Spirit Rover to Rest Forever on Mars But More Data Expected
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...
Experts: U.S. Asteroid Danger Plans Insufficient
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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Sun Sets on Power-Challenged Russian Solar Observatory
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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Another Five Years for the Space Station?
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...
Can Africa Topple Australia in the Contest To Build the World's Biggest Telescope?
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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NASA Administrator Promises Not to Cannibalize Science Budget
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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Deadline Looms for Earth-Sensing Satellites Report
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...
Russia to Explore Mission to Asteroid Despite Low Collision Risk
Russian space chief Anatoly Perminov says that his agency will soon hold an international meeting to consider a mission to asteroid Apophis, which scientists have assigned real though low...
December 23, 2009 3:28 PM
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Government Report Questions Space Station Research
Just as construction on the facility comes to an end, a new Government Accountability Office report is criticizing NASA's plans for research at the International Space Station: NASA faces...
December 17, 2009 7:32 PM
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Exclusive: Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, ScienceInsider has learned....
U.K. Gets Own Space Agency At Last
U.K. Science Minister Paul Drayson announced today that Britain would, finally, create its own space agency. No news yet on the body's name or spending power, but it has...
December 9, 2009 1:28 PM
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NASA to Get Administration's Spending Request for 2010
NASA has received the full $18.7 billion requested by the White House, including $4.5 billion for science. But House of Representatives and Senate conferees, releasing a report yesterday on 2010...
November 20, 2009 5:32 PM
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Roundup 11/20: Power Outage Edition
The new idea of a scaled-back climate bill to focus just on the power sector is a bad idea, said White House climate czar Carol Browner. A historic two-story building...
NASA's Bolden Discovers Bento Satellites in Japan
TOKYO—Manned space exploration "is in our DNA," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said during a town hall meeting here today at the University of Tokyo (Todai). The former astronaut said...
November 12, 2009 4:41 PM
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End of the Line for Spirit Rover?
The Mars rover that has been stuck in talcum-powder-like soil the past 6 months is in a bad way, its NASA team reported in a press conference today. After months...
No to NASA: Augustine Commission Wants to More Boldly Go
NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on...
Accused Spy Was Hot on Trail of Lunar Ice
Before being arrested Monday and charged with trying to sell classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence agent, planetary physicist Stewart Nozette was on a...
October 8, 2009 11:15 AM
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Obama Honors Science Medalists, Present and Future
President Barack Obama spent time yesterday looking at the stars—both real and those in the scientific firmament. In a formal ceremony in the East Room of the White House,...
September 29, 2009 4:01 PM
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NASA Changes Moon Target
Just days after expressing “great confidence” that they had found the best possible target for next week’s planned crash into the moon, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)...
September 16, 2009 5:12 PM
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Roundup 9/16: Assets Liquid and Illiquid Edition
In a response to lawsuits by environmental groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will review a controversial decision on ozone pollution limits made in March 2008 and propose a new...
September 9, 2009 11:05 AM
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Think Globally, Long-Awaited Space Panel Tells NASA
Delivering its summary report yesterday to the White House and NASA, the Augustine commission surprised no one by declaring that the U.S. human spaceflight program is "on an unsustainable trajectory."...
September 4, 2009 10:52 AM
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Space Flight Summary Report to White House on Tuesday
The blue-ribbon panel reviewing NASA's human space flight program says it will give the White House a written summary of its findings on Tuesday, 8 September. The panel, chaired by...
September 2, 2009 5:59 PM
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No Augustine Report Yet
A spokesperson for the Office of Science and Technology Policy said today that the White House has not received a report from the panel reviewing NASA's plans for human space...
September 1, 2009 2:07 PM
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Lost in Space: The Latest Casualty in Reviewing Science for Obama
See an update to this item here.The much-ballyhooed report on the future of the U.S. human space program was submitted today to the White House. Or so rumor has it....
Indian Moon Mission "Terminated"
NEW DELHI—India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, has come to a shuddering and unexpected halt. On 29 August, the Indian Space Research Organization lost all contact with the spacecraft after a...
August 31, 2009 11:05 AM
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Wildfire Threatens California Observatory
The wildfire raging in Angeles National Forrest outside of Los Angeles, California, is inching close to Mount Wilson, home to the 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory. The facility was evacuated on...
August 24, 2009 1:00 PM
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Chandrayaan-1 Joins Search for Lunar Water
NEW DELHI—Indian scientists point to a search for water ice above the moon's north pole, conducted with the United States on 20 August, as a sign that India's lunar...
August 14, 2009 5:00 PM
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Dog Days of Augustine for U.S. Space Panel
The chair of a blue-ribbon panel reviewing the U.S. human space program briefed senior Obama Administration science officials today on what's expected to be a frank assessment of NASA's choices....
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