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NASA To Launch New Science Mission To Asteroid In 2016
NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to…
Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot Of Black Hole Jets
An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced…
NASA’S Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led…
Cassini Spacecraft And Ground Telescope See Violent Saturn Storm
NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a Chilean ground telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm…
Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone…
NASA Announces News Briefing On Aquarius/Sac-D Mission
NASA will hold a news briefing on Tuesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the…
NASA Spacecraft’s Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten…
NASA Event To Showcase Sofia Science, Education Projects
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program will showcase its science and education efforts to…
NASA’s Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories
NASA's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general…