The SciencesNovember 1, 2015
The U.S. Should Lead the World away from a Space War
Superpowers are flexing military muscles in orbit, but the U.S. can lead the world away from a planetary disaster
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The SciencesNovember 1, 2015
NASA Eyes Torpedo Tech as an Alternative to Nuclear Batteries
The U.S.’s measly stockpile of plutonium is barely adequate for missions planned for the next decade
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The SciencesOctober 29, 2015
Rosetta Sniffs Oxygen around Comet 67P
The presence of the gas could have implications for theories of the early solar system
The SciencesOctober 27, 2015
NASA Probe to Dive Through Saturn Moon's Icy Plume
The Cassini spacecraft will zoom just 50 kilometers above Enceladus at about 1 P.M. EDT on October 28
The SciencesOctober 26, 2015
Mysterious Space Junk Will Plunge to Earth in November
The sun and moon's disruptive presence appears to have kicked WT1190F onto a path that will lead the piece of space debris to self-destruct in Earth's atmosphere
Space & PhysicsOctober 16, 2015
Pluto's Geology Is Unlike Any Other
First published findings from NASA’s New Horizons mission lay out the dwarf planet’s wildly varying terrain
Space & PhysicsOctober 2, 2015
Human Missions to Mars Will Look Completely Different from The Martian
The blockbuster film’s futuristic vision of interplanetary exploration could soon be out of date
Space & PhysicsOctober 1, 2015
NASA Considers New Robotic Missions to Venus and Asteroids
Proposals include a hunt for near-Earth objects, a dive into Venus’s atmosphere and a voyage the metallic core of a protoplanet
Space & PhysicsSeptember 28, 2015
India Launches Its First Astronomy Satellite
ASTROSAT aims to study star-birth regions and high-energy processes, including binary star systems of neutron stars and black holes
Space & PhysicsSeptember 25, 2015
Planetary Close-Up Reveals Pluto "Snakeskin"
Intriguing ridges add to dwarf planet's geologic mysteries
Space & PhysicsSeptember 24, 2015
Sunday's "Supermoon" Total Lunar Eclipse: When and Where to See It
The evening of September 27 will be the fourth time in the last 17 months that the moon becomes immersed in the Earth's shadow
Space & PhysicsSeptember 10, 2015
NASA Struggles over Deep-Space Plutonium Power
Sluggish production of nuclear fuel could make solar power the preferred choice for the agency’s outer-planets missions