
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
While Apollo 17 astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt visited Earth's moon
for three days in December
1972, they drove their
mission's Lunar Roving
... > full story

NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
NASA's first mission to
sample an asteroid is moving
ahead into development and
testing in preparation for
its launch in 2016. ... > full story

Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation
Johnny Cash may have
preferred this galaxy's
burning ring of fire to the
one he sang about falling
into in his popular song.
... > full story

Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep
What is the long-range
weather forecast for the
giant planets Uranus and
Neptune? These planets are
home to extreme winds
blowing at speeds of over
... > full story
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South Africa's New Radio Telescope Reveals Giant Outbursts from Binary Star System
May 16, 2013 An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South ... > full story -
Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship
May 16, 2013 On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... > full story -
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
May 15, 2013 Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story -
New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story -
Scientists Shape First Global Topographic Map of Saturn's Moon Titan
May 15, 2013 Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the ... > full story -
Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy
May 15, 2013 The intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to produce immense power in the form of jets moving at millions of miles per ... > full story -
Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses
May 14, 2013 A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric ... > full story -
First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013
May 14, 2013 On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 ... > full storyMore: -
New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discovery
May 13, 2013 Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for ... > full story -
Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions
May 12, 2013 When we look into the distant cosmos, the great majority of the objects we see are galaxies: immense gatherings of stars, planets, gas, dust, and dark matter, showing up in all kind of shapes. A new ... > full story
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