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UPDATED: NASA’s denies reports that Voyager left the solar system
UPDATE (4:49 pm ET): A statement from NASA posted at their Jet Propulsion Laboratory site says that, while they believe the Voyager is in a new region of space, NASA does not believe it has yet left the solar system: “The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA’s…
NASA’s Curiosity rover back online after memory glitch
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back. “We expect to get back to sample-analysis science by the end of the week,” said Curiosity Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper…
NASA slams spending cuts that put Earth at risk of undetected killer asteroids
A trio of experts testified before the House Science Committee of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday and warned that the detection and early warning of approaching Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and other threats from space is imperiled by current political wrangling over the national budget. The House Science Committee, chaired…
NASA rover finds conditions once suited to life on Mars
WASHINGTON — An analysis of a Mars rock sample by the Curiosity rover has unveiled minerals, including hydrogen, carbon and oxygen, that are the building blocks of life, NASA said Tuesday. “A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment,” said Michael Meyer, lead…
Curiosity rover on standby as NASA addresses computer glitch
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into “safe mode,” as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said. Scientists switched to a backup computer Thursday so that they could troubleshoot the problem, said to be linked to a glitch in the…
NASA’s Mars rover finds gray rock beneath the Red Planet’s surface
So much for Mars being “The Red Planet.” NASA said Wednesday that its Curiosity rover has scooped up a sample from the interior of a Martian rock and found that the powdery soil just beneath the planet’s rust-colored exterior is actually a light gray color. “Something that the science team…
Scientists looking beyond Earth in search for ‘rare earths’ elements
The quest for rare earths vital to some of modern life’s most indispensable technologies may see mining robots jet to the stars within decades, a world-first conference in Australia was told Wednesday. Yttrium, Lanthanum and the other 15 minerals which make up the group of elements known as rare earths…
NASA briefly lost communication with International Space Station
The International Space Station lost communication with ground controllers on Tuesday but its commander says the crew is fine, NASA said. It blamed a problem in a data relay system. NASA said flight controllers in Houston were updating software on board the station’s flight computers when one of the station’s…
NASA scrambles for better meteor and asteroid detection
NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom. But the US space agency reiterated that events like the one in the Urals, which…
NASA: Jupiter’s moon Europa ‘most promising’ place to sustain life
US astronomers looking for life in the solar system believe that Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, which has an ocean, is much more promising than desert-covered Mars, which is currently the focus of the US government’s attention. “Europa is the most likely place in our solar system beyond…
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