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NASA Selects Science Investigations for Concept Studies
October 3, 2011 — NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study Earth's atmosphere, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and ... > full story -
Orbital Observations of Mercury Reveal Flood Lavas, Hollows, and Unprecedented Surface Details
September 29, 2011 — After only six months in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is sending back information that has revolutionized the way scientists think about the innermost planet. Analyses of new ... > full storyMore: -
Stardust Discovered in Far-Off Planetary Systems
September 29, 2011 — Searching for extra-solar planets -- which are planets outside of our solar system -- is very popular these days. About 700 planets are known at the moment, a number that is continuously rising due ... > full story -
Feast Your Eyes on the Fried Egg Nebula
September 28, 2011 — Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to image a colossal star that belongs to one of the rarest classes of stars in the Universe, the yellow hypergiants. The new picture is the best ever ... > full storyMore: -
Venus Weather Not Boring After All, Scientists Discover
September 27, 2011 — At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view. The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant -- at ... > full story -
Strong Solar Storm Reaching Earth
September 26, 2011 — NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation's official source of warnings and alerts about space weather and its impacts on Earth -- issued a warning for a strong, G3 geomagnetic storm on ... > full story -
Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth
September 26, 2011 — A strong-to-severe (Kp=8) geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 8:15a.m. EDT (12:15 UT) on Sept. 26. The Goddard Space Weather Lab ... > full story -
Solar Activity Can Affect Re-Entry of UARS Satellite
September 23, 2011 — The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is headed toward Earth, but it hasn't been easy to precisely determine the path and pace of UARS because space itself changes over time -- in response ... > full story -
Black Hole, Star Collisions May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side
September 19, 2011 — Researchers have unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is on the short list of objects believed to make up dark matter. Such a ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two Stars
September 15, 2011 — The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a ... > full storyMore:
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