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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its...

Cruise Over Ceres in New Video
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Cruise Over Ceres in New Video

Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA's Dawn mission.

New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation
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New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Redjourney...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Inspects ­nusual Bedrock
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Inspects ­nusual Bedrock

Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before—bedrock with surprisingly...

A Wi-Fi Reflector Chip To Speed ­p Wearables
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A Wi-Fi Reflector Chip To Speed ­p Wearables

Whether you're tracking your steps, monitoring your health or sending photos from a smart watch, you want the battery life of your wearable device to last as long...

Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit
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Dawn Maneuvering to Third Science Orbit

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to descend to its third mapping orbit at Ceres, and all systems are operating well. The spiral maneuvering...

Nasa Explains Why June 30 Will Get Extra Second
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Nasa Explains Why June 30 Will Get Extra Second

The day will officially be a bit longer than usual on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, because an extra second, or "leap" second, will be added.

Rosetta's Miro Instrument Maps Comet Water
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Rosetta's Miro Instrument Maps Comet Water

Since last September, scientists using NASA's Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have generated maps...

Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16
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Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon's surface.

Nasa Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars
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Nasa Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars.

Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out
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Charting the Milky Way From the Inside Out

Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the living room.

Nasa Instrument on Rosetta Makes Comet Atmosphere Discovery
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Nasa Instrument on Rosetta Makes Comet Atmosphere Discovery

Data collected by NASA's Alice instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft reveal that electrons close to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov...

Cassini Prepares For Last ­p-Close Look at Hyperion
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Cassini Prepares For Last ­p-Close Look at Hyperion

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn's large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.

Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet
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Nasa Begins Testing Mars Lander For Next Mission to Red Planet

Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.

Europa Mission to Probe Magnetic Field and Chemistry
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Europa Mission to Probe Magnetic Field and Chemistry

Two powerful science investigations will help unravel the mystery of whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa might have the right conditions for life, when a new NASA...

Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision
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Mars Rover's Laser-Zapping Instrument Gets Sharper Vision

Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...

NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in ­niverse
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NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in ­niverse

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

Nasa Soil Moisture Mission Begins Science Operations
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Nasa Soil Moisture Mission Begins Science Operations

NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations.

Astronomers Take a New Kind of Pulse From the Sky
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Astronomers Take a New Kind of Pulse From the Sky

Every night, our sky beats with the pulses of radio light waves, most of which go unseen.

OPALS Boosts Space-to-Ground Optical Communications Research
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OPALS Boosts Space-to-Ground Optical Communications Research

Ever wonder why stars seem to twinkle?
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