In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

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A scientist says self replicating alien probes may already be hidden in the Solar System, possibly on the Moon, leaving ...

I participate in a Monday morning meeting every week with the Administrator, Associate Administrator, Chief of Staff, heads of Mission Directorates (Aeronautics, Exploration Systems, Science, Space ...

A near term laser ablation of micropellets can be made to rapidly accelerate one ton space probes to reach Pluto in one year. The NASA New Horizons launched in 2006 took 9.5 years to reach Pluto and ...

The Planetary Science Institute (PSI), in collaboration with the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of The University of Arizona, the SETI Institute and the Space Science Institute, has conducted a survey ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

decade, 2003-2013); and 4). Draft a prioritized list of the most promising avenues for flight investigations and supporting ground-based activities. The corresponding astronomy studies historically ...