Feature Stories

The host of the popular Gravity Assist podcast talks to Astrobiology Magazine’s Keith Cooper about why he feels the show is giving back something important to the listeners.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to author Andy Weir about his science fiction novels that take place in the near-future on the Moon and Mars

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to author Andy Weir about his science fiction novels that take place in the near-future on the Moon and Mars.

A sampling of bacteria life from deserts in six continents shows diversity of adaptations.

In the lab, recreation of an ancient gene shows evolutionary end game.

What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern.

What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern.

A simple, unconventional protein had the flexibility to help life evolve.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who is the Principal Investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission, which flew past Pluto in July 2015.

NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who is the Principal Investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission, which flew past Pluto in July 2015.