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NASA ER-2 Aircraft Continues Earth Ecosystem Research
Second year of HyspIRI airborne campaign on high-altitude ER-2 is gathering data about the health of…
Scott Braun, HS3 Principal Investigator at the HS3 Science Meeting
Dr. Scott Braun leads a diverse team that uses unmanned aircraft to understand better the meteorological…
NASA, Virgin Galactic Announce Payloads for SpaceShipTwo Flight
NASA has selected 12 technology experiments to fly on the first commercial research flight on Virgin…
NASA Begins Testing of New Spectrograph on Agency’s Airborne Observatory
Astronomers are eagerly waiting to begin use of a new instrument to study celestial objects: a…
Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World
Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is…
Citizen Scientists Successfully Communicate with Spacecraft
A group of citizen scientists has successfully established communication with an inactive NASA spacecraft in an…
A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material
NASA's newest solar observatory, IRIS, caught its first coronal mass ejection in extraordinary detail, in better…
NASA Widens 2014 Hurricane Research Mission
NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of tropical cyclones in 2014 during…
Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the…