NASA’s Deep Impact Mission Has Ended
After almost 9 years in space that included an unprecedented July 4th impact and subsequent flyby of a comet, an additional comet flyby, and the return…
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NASA Looking for America’s Best and Brightest for Space Technology Research Fellowships
NASA is seeking applications from U.S. graduate students for the agency’s Space Technology Research Fellowships. The research grants, worth as much as $68,000 per year, will…
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NASA Scientists Find Evidence That Europa Likely Spun on a Tilted Axis in the Past
By analyzing the distinctive cracks lining the icy face of Europa, NASA scientists found evidence that this moon of Jupiter likely spun around a tilted axis…
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A Fiery Solar Explosion
Like a dragon breathing fire, a powerful blast of plasma erupts from the Sun in this colourised view of a ‘coronal mass ejection’. These huge clouds…
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Violent Impacts Take Building Blocks of Life in Comets to Next Level
Comets and other icy celestial bodies have some basic building blocks for life, but it takes violent impacts to take them to the next level, according…
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Watch Out for the Harvest Moon Later This Week
The Harvest Moon is the full Moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox, the beginning of northern autumn. In 2013 the Moon is full on…
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The moon holds a significant relationship with the Earth: if there were no moon, our daily lives as humans would significantly change. The first and most…
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Largest Known Population of Star Clusters Uncovered by Hubble Space Telescope
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees inside the crowded core of the…
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Milestone: Voyager 1 Officially Leaves the Solar System for Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers)…
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Simulating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Under Water
ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and ESA astronaut instructor Hervé Stevenin slipped into the roles of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin last week for an underwater simulation…
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