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ARMED WITH data collected over the past 11 years, a team of crack astronomers has determined that our solar system is not unique: There is at least one more sun-like [...]

The International Space Station has many ancestors - real and imagined. Historically, technology has been pushed by vision. Space exploration is no different. The International Space Station may be the [...]

After a setback early in the mission, the Mars Global Surveyor reveals more of the Red Planet's secrets. Mike Malin always wanted to be the first extraterrestrial field geologist. He [...]

EVER SINCE NASA's 1996 announcement of putative fossils in a Martian meteorite, proponents and skeptics have argued over the findings. Several new papers now tend support to the idea that [...]

WHEN THE AGE of dinosaurs began, Earth's continents were fused together into a vast supercontinent known as Pangaea. Paleontologists have generally agreed on how the breakup of Pangaea resulted in [...]

NASA'S MARS Polar Lander is poised to leave for one of the most alien locales on Mars: the south polar region. Within this hilly wasteland may lie the record of [...]

In an upcoming test, NASA researchers plan to seal a human subject into a chamber for three months. But the prisoner won't be completely alone; he'll have the company of [...]

Future explorers on the planet Mars may want to bring along a portable CD-ROM player. Thanks to the efforts of The Planetary Society, the Time Warner Interactive Group, and Russia's [...]

For several years, scientists have suspected that the Bering Glacier, a massive ice sheet ending near the Gulf of Alaska, has been retreating, causing the glacier to 'calve' large icebergs [...]

Discusses efforts to explore Mars, focusing on probes that will be sent in 1997 and 1998. The Mars Pathfinder, due to land on Mars in July of 1997, with its Surveyor microrover; The Mars Global Surveyor, which will orbit the planet beginning in September 1997; Mars '96, a Russian probe set to reach the planet in December of 1997; Planet B, a Japanese probe to be launched in 1998; Other probes; Questions scientist hope the probes will answer. INSET: ()..

Provides information on the planets discovered in the solar system of Upsilon Andromedae. Planets of Upsilon Andromedae; Techniques of tracking planets; Theories of solar system formation.

Reports on the fossil of a Brachylophosaurus discovered by paleontologists in a sandy bank in northern Montana.

Focuses on plans of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to further explore the planet Mars. Comments of Larry Lemke of NASA; Development of model airplane technology.

Reports on the plan to have a Mars lander retrieve rock samples from Mars. Geologic samples from Mars; Concerns on Earth contamination.

Reports the discovery of an ancient 330-foot Pharos Lighthouse which used to stand above the harbor at Alexandria, Egypt. The details, as presented by marine archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur at the National Center for Scientific Research in Alexandria.

Reports on the launching of a space probe to Jupiter from the Galileo spacecraft in July 1995, marking the first attempt to penetrate the atmosphere of one of the solar system's outer planets. Launching mechanism; Information to be relayed by the probe to the Galileo orbiter; Operation tests made on the probe.

Reports on the Clementine space probe's discovery of lunar craters and mountains. Heights of lunar valleys and peaks; Photographs of the South Pole-Aitken Basin; Clementine mission as a model for future explorations.

Reports that Galileo, NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft, has revealed that asteroid 243 Ida has a small moon. Data which trickled back to scientists through Galileo's small low-gain antenna; Size and orbit of Ida.

Discusses how a compact disc will be waiting for future explorers on the surface of the planet Mars. Who contributed to the effort; Comments by Jon Lomberg of The Planetary Society; How Vision of Mars disc contains a tapestry of text, image and sound representing what people have thought and said about Mars; Copies of the disc which will fly aboard twin Russian Mars landers; More. INSET: An album of greatest hits (people involved in disc), by M.C..

Reports that in the war against weeds, plant pathologist Raghavan Charudattan of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in Gainesville is working on a weapon that doesn't require harmful chemicals. Comments by Charudattan on his patents and how he identifies fungi that cause diseases in weeds.

Comments on a recent proposal by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., that offers a fast and less expensive way to get to Pluto. Specifics on JPL's innovative Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) mission; How costs would be cut; Importance of reaching Pluto soon.

States that a team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have discovered ice on the fiery planet Mercury. How discovery was made; Speculation as to when ice arrived on the planet.

States that Russian scientists and engineers recently traveled to Death Valley, California to test a prototype of an unmanned rover that will be sent to Mars in 1996. Details on the vehicle and its capabilities.