News Archive / Tagged: Cornell University

• Proposed CAESAR mission could return a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

  Tomasz NowakowskiJune 19th, 2018

  A proposed mission known as Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), could greatly improve our knowledge about the origin and history of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. If selected by NASA, it could return a sample from this comet to Earth, enabling scientists to study the leftover material from the formation of our Solar System.

• NASA names David W. Miller as agency’s new chief technologist

  Press ReleaseMarch 13th, 2014

  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Thursday that David W. Miller, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., has been named the agency’s new Chief Technologist. As chief technologist, he will be Bolden’s principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs.

• Carbon Worlds May be Waterless, Finds NASA Study

  Press ReleaseOctober 28th, 2013

  Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research.