LRO finds crater on moon that may have 22 percent surface ice

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as…

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NASA Administrator To Speak With NEEMO 16 Crew During Underwater ‘Spacewalk’

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will speak with astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, commander of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission…

12 years ago

NASA’S Pleiades Supercomputer Gets A Little More Oomph

WASHINGTON -- NASA's flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of…

12 years ago

Study Finds Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica

WASHINGTON -- A new university-led study with NASA participation finds ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected.…

12 years ago

NASA Selects Low Cost, High Science Earth Venture Space System

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted…

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China Launches Astronauts to it’s Station, Including First Female

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state television from the Jiuquan Satellite…

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First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope

WASHINGTON -- The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to…

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China Announced The Astronaut Crew for Saturday Launch

China has announced the three people it will be sending up for its first manned docking spaceflight, to be launched Saturday, June 16.…

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Double CME headed to Earth from sunspot AR1504

Update 6/15/12 - A beta-gamma-delta field in AR1504 has developed. This could store energy for strong solar flares. NOAA  estimates…

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Asteroid Flies by Earth Today(6/14/12)!

Today, 6/14/12, A asteroid the size of a city block will fly by the earth. The astrtoid is named 2012…

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