New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That’s…
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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,…
SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR AWARD
NASA selected two teams to receive the agency’s Software of the Year Award. A team from…
DEEP IMPACT
Painting by the numbers is a good description of how scientists create pictures of everything from…
SPIRIT ON MARS
Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA’s Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes…
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut…
UNDERSEA LAB
NASA is sending three astronauts and a Cincinnati doctor to test new space medicine concepts and…
DESERT “RATS”
Meaningful exploration in the hostile environs of the moon and Mars will depend on mobility. Tough,…