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  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
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  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
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  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
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  '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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  NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

  April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story
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  TESS Project Will Launch Telescopes to Perform Full-Sky Search for Transiting Exoplanets

  April 8, 2013 — NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky ... > full story
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  NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument

  April 8, 2013 — Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos. They shine even though they're technically dead, occasionally feeding on neighboring stars if they venture too close. Interestingly, these ... > full story
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  Rocket Powered by Nuclear Fusion Could Send Humans to Mars

  April 4, 2013 — Scientists are building components of a fusion-powered rocket aimed to clear many of the hurdles that block deep space travel, including long times in transit, exorbitant costs and health ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  Search for Dark Matter: Experiment Measures Antimatter Excess in Cosmic Ray Flux

  April 3, 2013 — The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. They report the observation of an excess of positrons in the ... > full story

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  Crawler-Transporter Receives New Roller Bearing Assemblies

  April 2, 2013 — For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter (CT) 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Recent work has included preparations to ... > full story

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