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May. 25, 2011 | 15:47 PDT | 22:47 UTC
NASA Selects Next New Frontiers Mission
by Bruce Betts
NASA has selected the OSIRIS-REx mission as the next New Frontiers mission. OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) will be the first U.S. asteroid sample return. It is led by... More»
May. 25, 2011 | 11:25 PDT | 18:25 UTC
A picture of Spirit that's too poetical for words
Yesterday, I remarked that despite the declaration of her death we'll be seeing Spirit frequently over the next few years, as long as Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is still monitoring her landing site with its HiRISE camera. I said that Spirit is a... More»
May. 25, 2011 | 06:30 PDT | 13:30 UTC
Guest blog: Meg Schwamb: South of the Border
Meg Schwamb is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She's currently searching for previously unseen Kuiper belt objects in the southern skies with the La Silla-QUEST KBO Survey and is hunting planets in Kepler data... More»
May. 24, 2011 | 13:05 PDT | 20:05 UTC
Sad news for Spirit: It's All Over But the Crying
Alicia Chang reported today that, according to project manager John Callas, the last attempt to uplink a command to the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will be made tomorrow. NASA will cease listening for signals from Spirit on Tuesday. While it... More»
May. 24, 2011 | 06:28 PDT | 13:28 UTC
Guest Post: Jason Davis: A Feather In Virgin Galactic's Cap
Virgin Galactic recently released video of the first feathered flight test of their commercial spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo. The flight took place on May 4, 2011, and lasted 11 minutes and 5 seconds. It was a major milestone for the fledgling space... More»
May. 23, 2011 | 12:23 PDT | 19:23 UTC
Tantalizing photos of Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Saturn
EDIT 22:31 UTC: Ooops. I misidentified a moon -- two moons, actually. These images contain Dione and Tethys but not Enceladus. Thanks, Jason, for the correction, and apologies for my mistake!
It figures. I just start a three-week trip, with my... More»
May. 23, 2011 | 05:35 PDT | 12:35 UTC
Guest blog: Konstantin Batygin: Searching for one planet, finding another
I'm traveling with family until June 12 so won't be posting as frequently as normal. I've lined up several volunteers who are helping out with posts, and I'm grateful to them for their time! If you are a student who'd like to try out writing for... More»
May. 19, 2011 | 10:27 PDT | 17:27 UTC
Titan's lack of lightning
It's a fact of life in science that not all of your hypotheses will turn out to be correct (or even verifiable at all). But there's a bias toward the publication of positive results -- the discovery of this, or the proof of that. So I always find... More»
May. 19, 2011 | 09:56 PDT | 16:56 UTC
This year's Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award recipient is...me!
(My alternate working title for this post was: "Kermit YAAAAAAAY!")
Click to enlarge >Eberhart prize winner!Credit: Isabel Lawrence I was driving home from the Mars Science Laboratory site selection workshop yesterday when I got a thrilling call... More»
May. 18, 2011 | 11:20 PDT | 18:20 UTC
It's opposite day at the Curiosity landing site selection meeting
I've been attending the final Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Community Workshop meeting this week, taking copious notes for a future article in The Planetary Report, some of which I'll post here when I get a chance. But I just had to write a... More»
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