NASA announced today that the Mars Odyssey orbiter has switched to a set of redundant equipment and has resumed its observational and relay duties. The equipment that was switched...
Anyone who has played Angry Birds Space knows that the game contains a satellite that links to a NASA mobile web page that educates kids on the effects of microgravity and that Ang...
NASA announced today that data from its Dawn probe show the giant asteroid Vesta is constantly "stirring" its surface, presenting a "young" appearance. The type of weathering that...
Mars rover Curiosity continued to sample soil at the dusty "Rocknest" location on Mars this week. The rover has been stationed at the site for nearly one Earth month.
The rover...
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researchers have developed a method of using a specialized 3-D imaging radar to "characterize" the oil in oil spills. This represents the firs...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its fourth scoop of Martian soil over the weekend and yesterday was issued commands to place a bit of the sample into the rover's Chemistry and Min...
NASA has announced that Mars rover Curiosity will take its third scoop of Martian soil sometime today. While this may be the third scoop for the rover, it's the first one that wil...
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may have been decommissioned last year, but the data it has provided is continuing to reveal clues about our solar system.
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