Porn and movies, not tech secrets, found on Chinese spy suspect's NASA laptop The Chinese national taken into custody on an airplane waiting to take off for home had pornography and illegally downloaded movies on his NASA computer, not government secrets, reports say. He is now set to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating NASA computer rules. More
One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by The Times. More
NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life on Earth Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made a puzzling discovery while roaming the barren surface of the planet's Gale Crater: puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day. The ... 04/23/2024 - 8:37 am | View Link
Humans to Mars: What’s the holdup? – part II By the end of the last decade, NASA had a promising plan in motion. Yet, challenges emerged with a new administration and ongoing budget worries. 04/16/2024 - 10:26 pm | View Link
NASA's Curiosity Rover Has Just Arrived Where Ancient Water Likely Existed NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover just made it to a channel called Gediz Vallis. This spot is the perfect place for taking a dramatic alien panorama. But, it might also contain hidden clues of ancient ... 04/4/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Curiosity Rover Could Force Scientists to Rethink How Mars Lost Its Water NASA's Curiosity rover has spent the past twelve years trundling around Mars, and it has been so successful the Perseverance rover uses the same underlying design. It doesn't have the rock ... 04/3/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
New insights into Mars’ vanishing water mystery from Curiosity rover Did you know that Mars wasn't always the cold planet we imagine today? Evidence from the Curiosity rover suggests that billions of years ago, Mars was a much warmer and wetter place – a world ... 04/2/2024 - 5:51 pm | View Link