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High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets in Kepler Data
An 18-year-old high school senior has won a $250,000 prize for calculating the potential for finding…
Asteroid (6478) Gault
Hubble Witnesses Asteroid Coming Unglued This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the gradual self-destruction…
NASA Updates Spacewalk Assignments, Announces Final Preview Briefing
With the first in a series of three spacewalks successfully completed at the International Space Station,…
Laser Blasts Show Asteroid Bombardment, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars
A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life…
PIA23141: MODIS Images Fireball over Bering Sea
Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: MODIS Image Credit: NASA/GSFC Click here for original story, PIA23141: MODIS…
PIA23050: MISR Images Fireball Over Bering Sea (Anaglyph)
Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: MISR Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL-Caltech, MISR Team Click here for original story,…
PIA22825: MISR Images Fireball Over Bering Sea
Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: MISR Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL-Caltech, MISR Team Click here for original story,…
The Asteroid Was Shooting Rocks Into Space. ‘Were We Safe in Orbit?’
NASA’s Osiris-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached the space rocks they are surveying last year, and…
Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission
Scientists at a conference in Houston presented the concept for a flyby mission to study a…