Some perfectly common items can be used to do cutting-edge research in clever, unexpected ways. NASA…
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NASA’s First Planet Hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope: 2009-2018
NASA’s Kepler space telescope spent nine years in space, collecting an unprecedented dataset for science that…
What is Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration-1?
NASA researchers have developed tools to change the way commercial flights are directed in to the…
What is Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstration-1?
NASA researchers have developed tools to change the way commercial flights are directed in to the…
Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets
The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters,…
Magnetic Fields May Be the Key to Black Hole Activity
Researchers using NASA’s SOFIA airborne telescope have found that magnetic fields are trapping the material that…
African Smoke-Cloud Connection Target of NASA Airborne Flights
The ORACLES mission is gathering data on how aerosols such as smoke affect clouds and in…
‘Pulsar in a Box’ Reveals Surprising Picture of a Neutron Star’s Surroundings
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated 'pulsar in a box' are uncovering particle behaviors that…
NASA Airborne Team Surveys Flooding from Hurricane Florence
In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which struck the Carolinas on Sept. 14 causing widespread damage,…