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Landsat 5 Sets Guinness World Record for 'Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite'
February 12, 2013 — Landsat 5 successfully set the new Guinness World Records title for 'Longest-operating Earth observation satellite' as stated in an e-mail from Guinness World Records sent to NASA Goddard Space ... > full story -
Year Three: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission Highlights
February 12, 2013 — On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would ... > full story -
'Near-Miss' Asteroid Tracked
February 12, 2013 — An asteroid the size of a small office block is due to pass by Earth on Friday 15 February in one of the closest ‘near-misses’ in recent history. Although there is no chance of the ... > full story -
Presence of Intra-Amniotic Debris a Risk for Early Preterm Birth in First Pregnancy
February 11, 2013 — Findings suggest increased risk of early preterm birth when intra-amniotic debris is present in women with short ... > full story -
New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard
February 8, 2013 — Every year, sensors designed to detect nuclear explosions see harmless bursts in Earth's upper atmosphere from the breakup of an asteroid a few yards across. Tiny asteroids are much more numerous ... > full story -
New Evidence Suggests Comet or Asteroid Impact Was Last Straw for Dinosaurs
February 7, 2013 — While many assume that a comet or asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs, the actual dates of the impact and extinction are imprecise enough that some have questioned the connection. Scientists ... > full story -
NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars
February 7, 2013 — Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. Every 25.34 days, the object, ... > full story -
NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-Ray Imager
February 7, 2013 — Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets May Be Next Door, Kepler Data Suggest
February 6, 2013 — Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common ... > full story -
NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON
February 5, 2013 — NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The images were taken by the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution Imager over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, ... > full story
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