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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

TWO HATS: Alan Stern, NASA's newly named associate administrator for science, will continue as principal investigator (PI) on the New Horizons Pluto flyby mission that he shepherd to the launch pad in ...

This poll is now closed. Results to come soon, stay tuned! In our September 2025 issue, astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field of planetary science has transformed ...