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Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's ViewIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic ...
Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, says Stanford researcherSoot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new Stanford stu...
Cosmonauts Complete First Expedition 24 Spacewalk Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began thei...
Stars Just Got Bigger: A 300 Solar Mass Star UncoveredUsing a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth mo...
The Flight of Migrating MicrobesEvery day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place on Earth to another. Bacteria, funguses and viruses on dust particles can mo...
NASA Moves Forward on Commercial Partnership for Rocket Engine TestingEngineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center recently installed an Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine for qualification testing as part of a partnership t...
Detector Technology Could Help NASA Find Earth-like Exoplanets The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets-mostly ...
Antarctica Traced from SpaceAntarctica may not be the world's largest landmass -- it's the fifth-largest continent -- but resting on top of that land is the world's largest ice s...
NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map EverA camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the...
Newly discovered asteroid named for Nobel laureate Elie WieselLast May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace ...
NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First TimeAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are ...
Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky WayA hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misst...
Arctic Voyage Illuminating Ocean OpticsDuring NASA's ICESCAPE voyage to the Arctic, scientists have been looking at the phytoplankton in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea - how many, how big and at ...
Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's TouchdownA downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spac...
NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Technology To Play Key Role In New Open Source Initiative The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open sourc...
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