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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
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
Much like the inside of an
operating room, in the clean
room at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., engineers worked metic ... > full story
Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses
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
... > full story
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Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
May 6, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants ... > full story -
Robots Take Part in a Space Simulation
May 3, 2013 — The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists were studying how these intelligent assistance systems can help astronauts to keep fit ... > full story -
Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story -
The Human Immune System in Space
April 22, 2013 — When the space shuttle Atlantis touched down in the summer of 2011 at Cape Canaveral, closing the book on the U.S. shuttle program, a team of U.S. Army researchers stood at the ready, eager to get ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story -
NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story -
NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test
April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story -
NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It
April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story -
Exposure to Space Radiation Reduces Ability of Intestinal Cells to Destroy Oncoprotein
April 9, 2013 — With so much recent interest in space travel, many have asked, is it safe? Two studies funded by NASA help explain why space radiation may increase the risk of colorectal cancer in ... > full story -
'Spooky Action at a Distance' Aboard the International Space Station
April 9, 2013 — Albert Einstein famously described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at distance"; however, up until now experiments that examine this peculiar aspect of physics have been limited to relatively ... > full story
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