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A Portrait of Global Winds
High-resolution global atmospheric modeling provides a unique tool to study the role of weather within Earth’s…
NASA Television Airs Launch, Docking of Space Station Cargo Ship
NASA Television will broadcast the Monday, Nov. 25, launch and the Friday, Nov. 29, docking of…
SOFIA’s Target of Opportunity: Comet ISON
Unique flying observatory captures infrared imagery of comet's dust mass and loss rate, data that will…
NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about…
ESA Euronews: The real-life space cadets: Abbie, Marc and Maria
Meet the space cadets, three young engineers with enviable jobs that are quite literally out of…
Update from Plesetsk: Day before launch day
ESA’s SWARM mission to study the Earth’s magnetic field is on its launch pad. Lift off…
Guide to our Galaxy
This virtual journey shows the different components that make up our home galaxy, the Milky Way,…
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. (Nov. 18, 2013) – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas…
NASA’s Chandra Helps Confirm Evidence of Jet in Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at…