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• Veteran space station crew ready to fly
Air Force, Fincke, 41, grew up in Emsworth, Pa., and holds masters degrees in aeronautics and astronautics, as well as in planetary geology. He was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996. "Some people refer to it as a calling, a vocation ...
• Is an armament sickening U.S. soldiers?
The analyses were done in Germany, by a Frankfurt professor who developed a depleted uranium test with Randall Parrish, a professor of isotope geology at the University of Leicester in Britain. The veterans, using their positive results as evidence ...
• Plant-eating dinosaur spills his guts
Our interpretation suggests that the subadult Judith River Formation brachylophosaur had a leaf-dominated diet shortly before its death," the authors write in the September issue of PALAIOS, the journal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Skin and ...
• Astronauts get down to earth
Jones provided a preview of his forthcoming book, "Planetology," which blends imagery of Earth and other celestial bodies to show the similarities and contrasts in climate and geology. Earth's watery lakes help us understand Titan's hydrocarbon lakes
• Feb. 7: A Martian first: Spirit rover drills into rock
An analysis of the formation's fine layering could provide further evidence that the region's geology was shaped by water. Scientists had hoped Opportunity would reach the rock by Friday, but mission manager Matt Wallace said the rover fell slightly ...