
Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained
Using data gathered by
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter mission, scientists
believe they have solved a
mystery from one of the
solar system's coldest
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Mars Had Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4,000 Million Years Ago
Differences between Martian
meteorites and rocks
examined by a NASA rover can
be explained if Mars had an
oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000
million years ago -- well
... > full story

Unusual Supernova Is Doubly Unusual for Being Perfectly Normal
Type Ia supernovae are
indispensable milestones for
measuring the expansion of
the universe. With
definitive measures of
Supernova 2011fe, the
... > full story

Small Satellites Soar in High-Altitude Demonstration
Four tiny spacecraft soared
over the California desert
June 15 in a high-altitude
demonstration flight that
tested the sensor and
equipment designs created by
... > full story
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Finding All Asteroid Threats to Human Populations: NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
June 18, 2013 NASA has announced a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use ... > full story -
Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth from Deep Space
June 18, 2013 NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge ... > full story -
Three Centaurs Follow Uranus Through the Solar System
June 18, 2013 Astrophysicists have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun. Researchers have ... > full story -
The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy
June 18, 2013 NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump in the night." When one telescope catches a ... > full story -
Mystery of X-Ray Light from Black Holes Solved
June 14, 2013 Astrophysicists using high-powered computer simulartions demonstrate that gas spiraling toward a black hole inevitably results in X-ray ... > full story -
Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction
June 13, 2013 The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW Hydrae, located 176 light-years away in ... > full story -
Stacking Up a Clearer Picture of the Universe
June 13, 2013 Researchers have proven a new technique that will provide a clearer picture of the Universe's history and be used with the next generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometer ... > full story -
First Evidence of a New Phase in Neutron Stars
June 13, 2013 The nuclear ‘pasta’, called as such due its similarity to the Italian food, limits the period of rotation of pulsars, and astronomers have detected the first evidence of existence of a ... > full story -
Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm
June 12, 2013 Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Turns Up Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door
June 12, 2013 Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more ... > full story
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