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NASA Dawn mission: spacecraft takes first image of dwarf planet Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently on its way to the asteroid belt where it will rendezvous Ceres, its largest celestial body. Ceres, also classified as a dwarf planet, has an average diameter of about 950 km (590 miles) making it...
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Speedy, 500-meter-wide asteroid to pass near Earth on Nov. 29
A half-kilometer-wide asteroid will zoom past Earth on Nov. 29, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Astronomers find youngest known magnetar
Astronomers at NASA and the ESA have discovered a star in the constellation Sagittarius that is the youngest known magnetar ever recorded.
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Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
ESA's (The European Space Agency) ExoMars rover is headed to the red planet in 2020, on a mission to search for signs of past or present life. One of its primary tools in this endeavor is MOMA, the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer. MOMA is...
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NASA Referees Test of Footballs vs. Webb Telescope
While two football teams will be put to the test at Super Bowl LI in Houston, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are testing the most powerful space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space...
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NASA | TIRS: The Thermal InfraRed Sensor on LDCM
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...
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NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across...
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NASA | The Women of Astronomy
Space science research institutions have traditionally been populated by a strong male workforce, but this structure is rapidly changing. Todays workforce is much more diverse with individuals from various cultures and backgrounds, a...
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NASA | Developing a Comet Harpoon for Sample Return
The Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission will collect subsurface samples from a comet and return them to Earth. Comets and asteroids are leftover remnants from the early solar system and by studying samples from these objects, we can...
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NASA | Aqua CERES: Tracking Earth's Heat Balance
Is the heat budget of the planet changing? Thermometers on the ground can give us a snapshot of a summer heatwave or winter cold spell, but it takes something like NASA's CERES instruments to give a long term picture of whether the...
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NASA | IBEX Spacecraft Observes Matter from Interstellar Space
A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the rest of...
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NASA | Alien Atmospheres
Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. Although most exoplanets are too distant to be directly imaged, detailed studies have been made...
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NASA | Afterschool Universe: Stellar Fusion Demonstration
Afterschool Universe is an out-of-school-time astronomy program for middle school students that explores basic astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and then takes participants on a journey through the Universe beyond...
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd...
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Fermi Sees Gamma Rays from Far Side Solar Flares
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun, which should block direct light from these events. This apparent paradox is...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Charlie Sobeck Talks About Kepler’s Upcoming End of Flight
A conversation with Charlie Sobeck, Kepler’s former mission manager and now system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Doing Science with Transits and Occultations: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on August 17, 2017.
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NASA's Curious Universe: Our Laboratory in Space
Orbiting 250 miles above Earth, astronauts aboard the International Space Station explore farther into our solar system and work on thousands of studies that will help us back here on Earth. Join ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut...
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Russian debris cloud forces NASA to postpone spacewalk
A Russian missile test blew up a satellite, creating a cloud of space debris, and any piece of that cloud can puncture an astronaut’s suit or damage the International Space Station.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Yvonne Pendleton Talks About Building A Dream Team For Exploring The Solar System
A conversation with Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, the Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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Expedition 66 Northrop Grumman CRS-17 Cygnus Cargo Craft Launch - Feb. 19, 2022
The unpiloted Northrop Grumman CRS-17 Cygnus cargo craft launched February 19 on an Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, beginning a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Dubbed the “SS Piers Sellers”...
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Lockheed Martin unveils concept designs for Mars Base Camp
Space engineering giant Lockheed Martin has released the concept design for a base camp that will orbit Mars. The company unveiled its Mars Base Camp design at the Humans to Mars conference on May 18 in Washington, D.C., with hopes that...
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10 Things NASA Doesn't Want You To Know
When it comes to NASA, things are bound to get a little out of this world. Alltime10s brings you some weird claims and historical abnormalities about the world's most famous space program.
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NASA study says Saturn is losing its rings
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its rings at a rate which researchers describe as a "worst-case-scenario."