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NASA versus asteroids. Can humanity survive?
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The…
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June 2013
May 2013
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Neutron star is full of secrets…
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these…
April 2013
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Hurricanes of Saturn.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. In high-resolution pictures…
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Surprises in star formation, finds NASA.
Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing…
February 2013
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Strange new structures in space discovered by NASA.
NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes…
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The very, very small planet.
NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar…
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When rotating stars explode.
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the…
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Drilling on Mars… what the heck will they discover?
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a…
January 2013
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Enter… the planet-maker star!
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new worlds. The disk…
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Lakes of Mars.
A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the…
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Spiral Galaxy? It’s big… damn big!
The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the…
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Free planets for everyone… NASA’s great new world rush.
NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the…