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Oceans Vital for Possibility for Alien Life
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have made an important step in the race to discover whether other planets could develop and sustain life. New research shows the vital role of oceans in moderating climate on Earth-like ... full story -
Looking Back at the Jupiter Crash 20 Years Later
July 18, 2014 — Twenty years ago, human and robotic eyes observed the first recorded impact between cosmic bodies in the solar system, as fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter. ... full story -
Rosetta Spacecraft Approaching Twofold Comet
July 18, 2014 — As the European Space Agency's spacecraft Rosetta is slowly approaching its destination, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet is again proving to be full of surprises. New images obtained ... full story -
Lunar Pits Could Shelter Astronauts, Reveal Details of How 'Man in the Moon' Formed
July 17, 2014 — While the moon's surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes -- steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future astronauts could explore and use ... full story -
Earth-Like Soils on Mars? Ancient Fossilized Soils Potentially Found Deep Inside Impact Crater Suggest Microbial Life
July 17, 2014 — Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says a geologist based on images and data captured by the rover ... full story -
Asteroid Vesta to Reshape Theories of Planet Formation
July 16, 2014 — Researchers have a better understanding of the asteroid Vesta and its internal structure, thanks to numerical simulations and data from the space mission Dawn. Their findings question contemporary ... full story -
NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Magnetometer Ready for Spacecraft Integration
July 15, 2014 — The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA's GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is ready to be integrated with the ... full story -
NASA's Van Allen Probes Show How to Accelerate Electrons
July 15, 2014 — One of the great, unanswered questions for space weather scientists is just what creates two gigantic donuts of radiation surrounding Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts. Recent data from the ... full story -
Every Full Moon, Landsat Looks to the Moon
July 13, 2014 — Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the planet, Landsat 8 pivots to point at the moon. It scans the distant lunar ... full story -
Hi-Ho! Astronomers Discover Seven Dwarf Galaxies With New Telescope
July 10, 2014 — Meet the seven new dwarf galaxies. Astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral ... full story -
NASA’s Newest Near Earth Network Antenna Is Operational
July 10, 2014 — A ribbon-cutting ceremony near the base of the new NASA antenna within the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) marked the official beginning for the Near Earth Network (NEN) asset. Operated by the ... full story -
New Window Into High-Energy Processes on the Sun
July 9, 2014 — Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft -- which orbits Mercury, and so is as close as 28 million miles from the sun versus Earth's 93 million miles -- ... full story -
Carbon Monoxide Predicts 'Red and Dead' Future of Gas Guzzler Galaxy
July 8, 2014 — Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and ... full story -
Planet Mercury a Result of Early Hit-and-Run Collisions
July 8, 2014 — New simulations show that Mercury and other unusually metal-rich objects in the solar system may be relics left behind by hit-and-run collisions in the early solar system. The origin of planet ... full story -
Stretching Forces Shaped Jupiter Moon's Surface, Laboratory Model Suggests
July 8, 2014 — Processes that shaped the ridges and troughs on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede are likely similar to tectonic processes seen on Earth, according to a team of researchers. To arrive ... full story -
Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1
July 8, 2014 — NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space. Such waves are what led scientists to the conclusion, in the fall ... full story -
Comet Pan-STARRS Marches Across the Sky
July 6, 2014 — NASA's NEOWISE mission captured a series of pictures of comet C/2012 K1 -- also known as comet Pan-STARRS -- as it swept across our skies in May 2014. The comet is named after the astronomical ... full story -
Controversial Clues of Two 'Goldilocks Planets' That Might Support Life Are Proven False
July 3, 2014 — Mysteries about controversial signals from a star considered a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life now have been solved. The research proves, for the first time, that some of the ... full story -
Martian Salts Must Touch Ice to Make Liquid Water, Study Shows
July 2, 2014 — In chambers that mimic Mars’ conditions, researchers have shown how small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures. Liquid water is an essential ... full story -
Two Kuiper Belt Objects Found: Hubble to Proceed With Full Search for New Horizons Targets
July 1, 2014 — Planetary scientists have successfully used the Hubble Space Telescope to find two Kuiper Belt objects for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. After the marathon probe zooms past Pluto in July ... full story
- Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formed
- Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life
- NOAA's GOES-R satellite Magnetometer ready for spacecraft integration
- NASA's Van Allen Probes show how to accelerate electrons
- Hi-ho! Astronomers discover seven dwarf galaxies with new telescope
- NASA’s newest near Earth network antenna is operational
- Carbon monoxide predicts 'red and dead' future of gas guzzler galaxy
- Planet Mercury a result of early hit-and-run collisions
- Stretching forces shaped Jupiter moon's surface, laboratory model suggests
- Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1
- Two Kuiper Belt objects found: Hubble to proceed with full search for New Horizons targets
- Computing paths to asteroids helps find future exploration opportunities
- Rosetta's comet target 'releases' plentiful water
- Potentially habitable Earth-like planet discovered; May have similar temperatures to our planet
- Mysterious features on Saturn's Titan reveal the moon's seasonal changes
- Glimpse into the invisible world of electric asteroids
- Whale of a target: Harpooning space debris
- Curiosity travels through ancient glaciers on Mars
- Titan's building blocks might pre-date Saturn
- Webb telescope microshutters journey into NASA clean room
- Earth-size 'diamond' in space: Remarkable white dwarf star possibly coldest, dimmest ever detected
- All the sky, all the time: UK astronomers debate involvement in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Big solar blowouts hold clue to space weather
- NASA's swift satellite tallies water production of Mars-bound comet
- Unexpected findings: Small asteroids can be flying rock clusters or even clouds of dust surrouding solid rocks
- Hunt for extraterrestrial life gets massive methane boost
- Hubble to begin search beyond Pluto for a New Horizons mission target
- Giant telescopes pair up to image near-Earth asteroid
- NASA instruments on Rosetta start comet science
- Mercury passes in front of the sun, as seen from Mars
- NASA announces two upcoming undersea missions
- NASA's Orion spacecraft stacks up for first flight
- Dark side of the moon: 55-year-old mystery solved
- How solar wind can break through Earth's magnetic field
- Echoes of ancient Earth identified by scientists?
- Astronomers find a new type of planet: The 'mega-Earth'
- Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets
- Two GOES-R instruments complete spacecraft integration
- NASA missions let scientists see moon's dancing tide from orbit
- Diamond planets may be more common than astronomers thought
- A habitable environment on Martian volcano?
- Where have all the craters gone?
- NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater
- First broadband wireless connection ... to the moon: Record-shattering Earth-to-Moon uplink
- Ancient crater points to massive meteorite strike
- Rosetta space probe: Landing on a comet to observe nucleus and environment
- Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed
- Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?
- Hubble view: A hungry starburst galaxy
- Hardy little space travelers could colonize Mars, space station research shows that
- Length of exoplanet day measured for first time: Spin of Beta Pictoris b measured
- How do we clean up the junkyard orbiting Earth?
- The intergalactic medium unveiled: Cosmic Web Imager directly observes 'dim matter'
- Search for extraterrestrial life more difficult than thought
- Star is discovered to be a close neighbor of the Sun and the coldest of its kind
- Traces of recent water on Mars: Liquid water on Mars as recently as 200,000 years ago
- High-voltage transmission lines to act as antenna in first-of-its-kind NASA space-weather project
- Asteroids as seen from Mars -- A Curiosity rover first
- Astronomical forensics uncover planetary disks in NASA's Hubble archive
- A step up for NASA’s robonaut: Ready for climbing legs
- Asteroids made easy: 'Patch of asteroid' being built inside a satellite
- NASA completes LADEE mission with planned impact on moon's surface
- Immune cells to be tested on the International Space Station
- Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites
- First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed by Gemini and Keck observatories
- Mars: Meteorites yield clues to Red Planet's early atmosphere
- A study in scarlet: Hot newborn stars formed out of the clouds
- SpaceX’s Dragon headed to space station to create astronaut farmers
- International Space Station to beam video via laser back to Earth
- Protein crystal experiment set to fly to International Space Station
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