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Life Out There | The Cost of Dreams: SETI Research Is Revived - Life Out There
Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, a band of astronomers recently restarted the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

National Briefing | Science: Job Seekers Still Drawn to Space
The space shuttles are headed for museums, but NASA said Friday that more than 6,300 people responded to its latest call for would-be astronauts, the second highest in its history.

Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger?s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle?s rocket boosters could fail.

World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Radiation Blamed in Doomed Space Mission
Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its mission to a moon of Mars, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings.

Political Science | The Question of Space: For a Moon Colony, Technology Is t...
Could America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics.

NASA Tackles Problem of Missing Moon Rocks
Hundreds of moon rocks and other stuff from space have been lost, destroyed, stolen or remain unaccounted for, according to inspectors.

After Space Probe?s Failure, Russia Looks to U.S. Radar
Officials said on Tuesday that they were looking into whether powerful American radar systems might have caused the failure of a $170 million scientific probe headed toward Mars.

Russia?s Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe Crashes Into Pacific
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft had stalled in Earth orbit shortly after its launch on Nov. 9, losing a few miles of altitude each day until it fell to Earth.

Observatory: Kepler Telescope Finds More Planets Orbiting Two Stars
The discovery, scientists say, suggests there are probably millions of these so-called circumbinary planets.

A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon
Some archaeologists and historians worry that the next generation to visit the moon might carelessly obliterate the site of one of humanity?s greatest accomplishments.

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