House Panel Greets NASA Asteroid Plan With Skepticism, Favors Moon as Next Step to Mars

    Plans to robotically capture and corral a small asteroid into a stable lunar orbit so it can be explored byU. S.astronauts as early as 2021 got a chilly reception as the strategy was outlined Tuesday before the House Space Subcommittee, a NASA oversight...

Telltale Clues: Solar System Impact Bombardment

Howardites and eucrites are meteorite classifications, both of which are providing surprising clues to solar system-wide impact bombardment billions of years ago. New research unveils an unexpected link between asteroid Vesta and the Moon, providing new means for...

Congress Ponders Space Leadership Provision

    Congress is considering some substantial changes in the way NASA is led, managed from the outside and funded, as policy makers attempt to give the nation’s civil space program a sharper focus as well as the stability to ensure the sustained...