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Stolen NASA laptop contained private info on 10,000+ employees
A laptop computer stolen from a vehicle of a NASA employee on Halloween contained sensitive, private information on more than 10,000 current and former NASA employees, an internal report revealed Monday. As a result of the loss, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin explained that the nation’s space agency contracted…
NASA probes set to smash into Moon
NASA will smash two tiny probes into the Moon on Monday after they spent months gathering data from orbit miles above the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday. “We’re not expecting a big smash, a big explosion,” said project manager David Lehman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Their…
NASA photo error puts Mount Everest in India
The world’s highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and China. The agency said on its website that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko’s snap from the International Space…
Analysts: NASA needs other countries to explore final frontier
If NASA wants to help humans boldly go where no man has gone before, the US space agency must work with other countries, say experts who fear budget constraints will keep astronauts stuck on Earth. The fears were laid out in stark terms last week in a report by the…
Scientists say NASA’s budget inadequate for its goals
NASA suffers from a “mismatch” between its goals and the budget it has been given to achieve them, according to a panel that said the US space agency may need a complete overhaul. The National Research Council, which convened an independent group of top US scientists, urged the White House…
NASA to send new rover to Mars in 2020
NASA plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, the US space agency said Tuesday. The announcement came a day after NASA released the results of the first soil tested by the Curiosity rover, which found traces…
No ‘Little Green Men’ on Monday (?)
(Playing The Martian Guessing Game – Addendum #1) Now this is unusual: NASA has taken the extraordinary step of issuing a 2nd strong denial in a formal press release Thursday afternoon (11/29/12) and tamped down expectation of any major news announcements at Monday’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San…
NASA monitors massive dust storm on Mars
WASHINGTON — The US space agency says it is monitoring a massive dust storm on Mars that has produced atmospheric changes. It’s the first time since the 1970s that NASA is studying such a phenomenon both from orbit and with a weather station on the surface, NASA said on its…
Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASA downplays findings
NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet. Excitement is building over soon-to-be-released results from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is three months into a two-year mission…
Astronomers find most distant, oldest galaxy ever seen
Astronomers using a complex system of super telescopes have caught a glimpse of what is likely the most distant, and thus oldest, galaxy ever seen — some 13.3 billion light years from Earth. The star cluster was observed in its infancy — as it looked when the Universe was just…
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