NASA's administrator wants to reclassify Pluto as a planet, reigniting a 20-year controversy over its status in our solar ...
As the newly appointed administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Alan Stern, 49, is the conductor of a symphony of current and future space journeys to destinations as diverse as Saturn, ...
On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep space exploration. Dr. Stern, planetary scientist and the Principal ...
STAYING ALIVE: Astrobiology, which has seemed like the poor stepchild at NASA with Michael Griffin as administrator, has regained some ground under Alan Stern, the planetary scientist Griffin hired as ...
SCIENCE CHIEF: NASA has named S. Alan Stern the new head of the agency's Science Mission Directorate, effective April 2. Stern will succeed Mary Cleave, who is retiring. Stern joins NASA from the ...
Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and associate vice president in SwRI’s Space Sector, has been named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). SAN ANTONIO — January 8. 2026 — Southwest ...