
NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
In Antarctica in January,
2013 -- the summer at the
South Pole -- scientists
released 20 balloons, each
eight stories tall, into the
air to help answer an
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NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe
When did the first stars and
galaxies form in the
universe? How brightly did
they burn their nuclear
fuel? Scientists will seek
... > full story

Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover,
Opportunity, is driving to a
new study area after a
dramatic finish to 20 months
on "Cape York" with
examination of a rock
... > full story

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
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NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
May 16, 2013 NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in ... > full story -
Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation
May 16, 2013 Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues ... > 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 -
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: -
Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas
May 7, 2013 The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way ... > full story -
Telling Time on Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's Magnetosphere Changes With the Seasons
May 3, 2013 An undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn ... > full story
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