January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... James Green is a magnetospheric scientist. He is currently the NASA Chief Scientist and was previously the director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. He received his PhD in Space Physics from the University of Iowa in 1979 and...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... from 2016 ($5.6 billion), although some of the funds will be distributed differently – Earth science would get an increase of $111 million, while planetary science would be cut by that amount. The proposal includes nearly $50 million for a Europa...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... and finally Exploration Ground Systems, $590 million. The Planetary Science budget secured $2,713.4 million. Of this, $300 ... postpone a number of key programmes including two Earth science initiatives, PACE and CLARREO-Pathfinder, and the Wide-Field...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... (UAE) as the country, which is a relative newcomer to the space industry, is due to launch its first planetary-science mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
..., the Arecibo Observatory has been used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy for more than 50 years. Since it was built, the facility has...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... fields helping deflect their stellar winds,” says Daniel Horton, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the study's senior author. Their study was no easy task as flares can...
