A neutron star halfway across the Milky Way galaxy is ready for its close-up. A rare…
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DARK ENERGY RESEARCH
The good news from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is Einstein was right — maybe. A strange…
PROJECTS TO ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY
NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research recently selected 22 researchers to receive grants of up…
MARS ON EARTH
Spirit and Opportunity, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, are global hits: specifically, they’re 6.53 billion hits, more…
GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE
Student teams from New Jersey to Arizona are creating human-powered vehicles, similar to the first vehicles…
SORCE SATELLITE CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ON ORBIT
Having marked its first anniversary on orbit, NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has…
GIANT BLACK HOLE RIPS APART STAR
Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black…
X-43A FLIGHT DELAYED
The flight of NASA’s X-43A has been postponed, due to an incident with the rudder actuator…
PREDICTIONS OF MORE TROPICAL RAIN
As the tropical oceans continue to heat up, following a 20-year trend, warm rains in the…
SCIENTISTS FIND OZONE-DESTROYING MOLECULE
Using measurements from a NASA aircraft flying over the Arctic, Harvard University scientists have made the…