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»» Send Your Thoughts With A NASA Astronaut To The Summit Of Mt. Everest
[Wednesday, May 14, 2008] Scott Parazynski will be the first human to fly in space and summit the highest peak on our planet. We won't see a similar combination and alignment of first accomplishments again until someone summits the highest lunar peak - or Olympus Mons on Mars.
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»» NASA Phoenix Mission Ready for Mars Landing
[Tuesday, May 13, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet May 25.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment
[Saturday, May 10, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Landing Area Viewed by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Color Imager
[Saturday, May 10, 2008] On April 20, 2008, the orbiter's Mars Color Imager camera captured this view of a large region of northern Mars that includes the landing target area in the lower right quadrant.
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»» Astrobiology Meets the Video Game: Spore
[Tuesday, May 6, 2008] The Astrobiology-based game by Electronic Arts is described as "an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology, eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space."
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»» Laser experiments offer insight into evolution of gas giants
[Wednesday, April 30, 2008] By shooting the high-energy Omega laser onto precompressed samples of planetary fluids, scientists are gaining a better understanding of the evolution and internal structure of Jupiter, Saturn and extrasolar giant planets.
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»» Like Martian Water for Chocolate
[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] If you smacked a frozen chocolate bar on a table, it would break into bite-size pieces resembling the terrain in this Martian crater.
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»» Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block
[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust.
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»» Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept CO2 in check
[Tuesday, April 29, 2008] A study published in the advance online edition of Nature Geoscience links the pre-human stability to connections between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the breakdown of minerals in the Earth's crust.
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»» NASA's 50th Anniversary Lecture By Professor Stephen Hawking
[Monday, April 28, 2008] "DR. HAWKING: Spreading out into space will have an even greater effect. It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all."
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