An oft-asked question in Congress is how to explain to constituents the value of spending tax dollars on NASA. At a congressional hearing today, NASA’s chief technologist and representatives of …
Two new studies add to the mounting evidence refuting the controversial claim that NASA-funded scientists had isolated a bacterium that could thrive on arsenic. In a December 2010 paper, a …
Russia’s Interior Ministry is investigating a Russian company for alleged fraud for the handling of contracts for Russia’s GLONASS navigation satellite system. GLONASS is Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. Global …
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate both are in session this week. The list has been updated with the ISU-DC “space …
China’s successful Shenzhou-9 mission seems to have stirred interest in what impact, if any, China’s space program should have on the U.S. space program. Several experts on Chinese space activities have spoken …
UPDATE: Adds Dennis Overbye’s wonderful explanation of the Higgs field in language definitely understandable by policy wonks. The existence of the Higgs boson is fundamental to the Standard Model of physics …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released a video showing the formation and movement of a devastating wind storm that hit several states, including the Washington-Baltimore area, on …
School is out, Congress is out, and the electrical power is out in much of the Washington,DC area as the result of a terrible storm on Friday night with 70-80 mile per …
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European astronaut Andre Kuipers safely landed in Kazakhstan this morning Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The three spent a total of 193 …
Three International Space Station crew members are getting ready to return to Earth overnight, with undocking scheduled for 12:53 am July 1 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), about 7 hours from now. …