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12:24am, 15th May, 2019

White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA’s moon plans

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, at left, discusses the plan to send astronauts to the moon by 2024 as three of his associate administrators — William Gerstenmaier, Jim Reuter and Thomas Zurbuchen — look on during a town hall at NASA headquarters....

White House seeks $1.6B more as ‘down payment’ for NASA’s newly named Artemis moon program

8:41pm, 13th May, 2019

Space

White House seeks $1.6B more as ‘down payment’ for NASA’s newly named Artemis moon program

An artist’s conception shows astronauts exploring the moon after landing. (NASA Illustratiion) The White House is asking Congress for $1.6 billion more than the $21 billion it previously requested for NASA’s budget, to fund what’s now known as the Ar...

Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy

6:37am, 22nd April, 2019

Nature

Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy

(Tomsk Polytechnic University) Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), together with colleagues from the United States and Germany, have found a way to obtain inexpensive catalysts from hexagonal boron nitride or "white graphene". The tec...

10:39pm, 11th March, 2019

Space

White House budget proposal tightens the screws on science, from space to salmon

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Space Launch System in flight. (NASA Illustration) The White House’s spending plan for fiscal year 2020 aims to give a boost to the Space Force, but would dial down work on NASA’s Space Launch System, zero out the...

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

1:00pm, 3rd July, 2018

Space

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

A mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a prominent mound of bright material on the western side of Cerealia Facula on the dwarf planet Ceres. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Photo) The once-mysterious bright spots shining o...

White House lays out updated plan for detecting (and deflecting) killer asteroids

12:48pm, 21st June, 2018

Space

White House lays out updated plan for detecting (and deflecting) killer asteroids

NASA is planning missions to study how to divert a threatening asteroid, including an experiment known as DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (NASA Illustration) The White House has issued an updated plan that lays out the roles played by NASA...

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White House proposal to tap Pell Grant fund casts a pall over NASA’s moon plans

White House seeks $1.6B more as ‘down payment’ for NASA’s newly named Artemis moon program

Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy

White House budget proposal tightens the screws on science, from space to salmon

NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots

White House lays out updated plan for detecting (and deflecting) killer asteroids

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