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NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon 23 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Islan...
Swapping Motion-Sensing Units 13 Aug 2013 | 09:33 am
Mission Status Report PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is switching from one motion-sensing device to a duplicate unit onboard. The veteran orbiter relies on this inertial meas...
NASA's WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets 29 Jul 2013 | 10:58 am
The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of o...
Tropical Ecosystems Boost Carbon Dioxide as Temperatures Rise 25 Jul 2013 | 09:33 am
NASA scientists and an international team of researchers have found tropical ecosystems can generate significant carbon dioxide when temperatures rise, unlike ecosystems in other parts of the world. ...
Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere's Past 19 Jul 2013 | 03:05 pm
PASADENA, Calif. – A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original atmosphere. Curi...
Hubble Sees Stars That go out with a Whimper 15 Jul 2013 | 10:12 am
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planetary nebula IC 289, located in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. Formerly a star like our sun, it is now just a cloud of ionized gas b...
A Beautiful End to a Star’s Life 13 Jul 2013 | 11:53 am
Stars like the Sun can become remarkably photogenic at the end of their life. A good example is NGC 2392, which is located about 4,200 light years from Earth. NGC 2392, nicknamed the "Eskimo Nebula", ...
First Testing of Orion Launch Abort System Flight Hardware 11 Jul 2013 | 09:44 am
NASA engineers and contractors have begun tests on NASA’s Launch Abort System (LAS) Fairing Assembly, flight hardware that will be used to cover and protect the Orion crew module during Exploration Fl...
Inseparable Galactic Twins 3 Jul 2013 | 01:49 pm
Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one ...
NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble' 28 Jun 2013 | 10:22 am
PASADENA, Calif. -- Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interste...
