Cosmic Mystery Stumps ESA and NASA
A mystery that has stumped scientists for decades might be one step closer to solution after ESA tracking stations carefully record signals from NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
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Public Workshop for NASA’s Asteroid Initiative
Watch the NASA TV coverage of the asteroid redirection systems session of the NASA-hosted public workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to examine…
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Top 5 Telescopes for Beginners
by Magdalena Szczypa We have all gone through this. You decide to do something with your passion for astronomy and want to buy a telescope, but…
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Elusive Signals From the Early Universe Detected by Herschel
Using a telescope in Antarctica and ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist in the relic radiation from the…
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Using the Universe’s Most Luminous Beacons for Spacecraft Navigation
Deep-space missions require precise navigation, in particular when approaching bodies such as Mars, Venus or a comet. How precise? It’s necessary to pinpoint a spacecraft 100…
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Patchy Clouds on Kepler 7b Identified by Kepler and Spitzer
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like…
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Sun Releases Magnificent Eruption
On Sept. 29th, a long filament of magnetism in the sun’s northern hemisphere erupted, producing a magnificent CME and the must-see movie above from NASA’s Solar…
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Ingredient of Household Plastic Discovered on Titan by Cassini
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn’s moon Titan. This is the…
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Comet ISON May Be Comet of the Year, Not the Century
The countdown clock is ticking to comet ISON’s hair-raising passage around the sun on Nov. 28, as it grazes the sun at a distance of only…
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