In what could turn out to be a landmark discovery in the history of Mars exploration, imaging scientists using data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have recently observed features […]
Day One at the Astrobiology Science Conference Last Sunday evening, President Clinton’s airplane landed at Moffett Field adjacent to NASA’s Ames Research Center. This is a standard procedure each time […]
Extraterrestrial gases, including helium, are trapped in “buckyball” molecules in a layer of sedimentary clay found in many places on Earth, according to a paper to be published March 28, […]
POLICY DIRECTIVEDirective: NPD 8020.7EEffective Date: February 19, 1999Expiration Date: February 19, 2004Responsible Office: S /Office of Space Science
The National Science Foundation has awarded grants for seven new projects to study Martian meteorite ALH84001 in greater depth. The grants are part of a coordinated program with NASA to […]
Astrobiology is defined in the 1996 NASA Strategic Plan as “The study of the living universe.” At NASA’s Ames Research Center, this endeavor encompasses the use of space to understand […]
Over the past two decades there has developed an increasingly serious debate about the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. More recently, there have been significant deliberations about ways in which […]
Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the original website that was first posted – from Antarctica – in 1996.
Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the original website that was first posted – from Antarctica – in 1996.
Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the original website that was first posted – from Antarctica – in 1996.
