Draft House bill threatens $1 billion in NASA funding cuts
NASA's proposed plan to retrieve an asteroid is threatened by a $1 billion budget cut
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Wave to Saturn! NASA Probe to Photograph Earth from Deep Space
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NASA aims to reduce asteroid threat
Add this to your worry list: orbiting somewhere near Earth are an estimated 13,000 asteroids big enough to possibly level a country – and NASA has no ...
NASA's Grand Challenge: Stop Asteroids from Destroying Earth
NASA's planned manned mission to an asteroid is being tied to studying the threat from dangerous space rocks.
Draft NASA Bill Defunds Asteroid Mission, Restores Education
We still don't know which way is up for the 2014 NASA budget. Photo by NASA, modified by Phil Plait Not too surprisingly, there's been some ongoing ...
Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere a billion years before Earth
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere four billion years ago - more than a billion years before Earth, according to a study of rock ...
NASA wants backyard astronomers to help track asteroids
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that ...
Europe to send rover to Mars
Move over Curiosity: The European Space Agency plans to land a rover on Mars in 2019. The bot will search for signs of life by collecting and ...
NASA gets close up look at red asteroid
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com A radio telescope image of the asteroid 1998 QE2 revealed the space rock has a moon, and is a so-called 'primitive' ...
Crater Lake under airglow is NASA website's astronomy photo of the day
NASA explains that the eerie green glow in the sky over the lake is airglow, which is light emitted by atoms high in the Earth's atmosphere as they ...