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GRAVITY PROBE B MISSION
Almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his general theory of relativity, scientists have finished…
SHUTTLE FUEL TANK
Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…
BIG BABY GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to “weigh”…
PLUTO SPACE PROBE
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations…
BLUE STARS AROUND BLACK HOLE
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding…
Mars Orbiter
New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That’s…
DIGGING MOON DIRT
NASA announced the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a new Centennial Challenges prize competition that will award $250,000…
NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin today released the results of the agency’s exploration architecture study – a…
MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION
Scientists using NASA’s Swift satellite and several ground-based telescopes have detected the most distant explosion yet,…