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NASA | Carbon in the Ocean
Jeremy Werdell is studying how microscopic plankton in the oceans are responding to our changing climate. As a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, he knows that Earth's oceans and land cover have been doing us a favor. As...
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Happy Lunar New Year From Hubble
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year timetable. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Bradley Hague (GSFC...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Formation Time of Mega Basins on Mars: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on April 26, 2017.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: The Dark Side of the Crater: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on July 26, 2017.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Uland Wong Talks About Robots on the Moon
A conversation with Uland Wong, senior computer scientist in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set to take Bennu asteroid sample
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully stretched out its robotic arm for the first time in space, as it readies to take a sample from the asteroid Bennu.
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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft finds traces of water on asteroid
Recent data retrieved from NASA's OSIRIS-REx shows water is locked inside the asteroid Bennu.
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NASA discovers glowing vampire star from Kepler space probe archives
Astronomers have spotted a strange white dwarf star that devours its captive companion and blazes intense light in a rare event called a “super-outburst.”
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NASA’s TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
NASA’s ‘TESS’ mission has found a possible Earth-sized habitable planet.
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NASA announces mission to study Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA has announced plans to launch the Europa Clipper space mission to examine Jupiter’s icy moon Europa by 2025.
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Ellen Ochoa: Highlights of Her Career at NASA
Ellen Ochoa was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2017. The induction ceremony featured a video of highlights of her career at NASA, including four space shuttle flights. She also served as director of NASA's Johnson Space...
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Earth’s scientists couldn’t stop NASA’s killer asteroid
In a simulation, a fictitious asteroid was detected six months before it would hit Earth. The participants in the simulation considered various missions in which spacecraft could try to destroy the asteroid or deflect it off its path.
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What Makes These Craters On The Moon So Unusual?
The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's findings answers some questions about the Moon's unsolved mysteries.
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NASA’s Global Tour of Precipitation in Ultra HD (4K)
Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. This video shows the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created and uses satellite measurements...
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The Search for Life
Are we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all. On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s...
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Ten Mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that way? Could Venus...
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Women of Goddard - Awareness to Action
The Equal Opportunity Program Office and the Women of Goddard Advisory Committee, or WAC, are launching a year-long campaign for fiscal year 2017. The initiative has several goals including providing awareness and visibility to Goddard's...
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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Deepens Its Infrared View
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more cosmic questions, thanks to a new near-infrared filter. The upgrade will allow the observatory to see longer wavelengths of light, opening up exciting new...
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NASA | Lynn Carter, Planetary Scientist
From a distance, the dry, ancient surfaces of the Moon, Venus, and Mars look nothing like the dynamic planet we live on. But the same forces that shape our world -- volcanoes, plate tectonics, and impact craters -- have also driven the...
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Exploring Jupiter's Magnetic Field
NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Juno's twin magnetometers, built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their...
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Hubble's 32nd Anniversary: An Eclectic Galaxy Grouping
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd birthday with a stunning look at five galaxies, a close-knit collection called the Hickson Compact Group 40. This amazing assembly includes a giant elliptical galaxy, glowing with...
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Hubble Trivia: 6) What Has Hubble Helped to Reveal About the Expansion of the Universe?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the secrets of the universe for over 30 years, but it turns out Hubble has some secrets of its own! The question is: What has Hubble helped to reveal about the expansion of the universe? You...
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Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier Reacts to Changing Ocean Temperatures
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission uses ships and planes to measure how ocean temperatures affect Greenland's vast icy expanses. Jakobshavn Glacier, known in Greenlandic as Sermeq Kujalle, on Greenland's central western side,...
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NASA's Curious Universe: Our Window to the Stars
Decades of planning. One heart-pounding setback. Over a million mesmerizing images of space. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, our window to the stars.