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Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes In An Exoplanet Atmosphere
WASHINGTON -- An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made…
New NASA Game Lets Players Build and Launch a Virtual Rocket
With NASA's Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users, you don't…
Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd Couple
Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each…
First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope
The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been…
Small Planets Don’t Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form
New ground-based observations, combined with data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, shows small planets form…
NASA’S NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central…
NASA’S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare
WASHINGTON -- During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected…
Black Hole Growth Found To Be Out Of Sync
New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in…
NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test
NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8,…