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For the past few years, Mozilla has been working on a project called Open Badges. You can think of the project like merit badges for the Internet. It allows people to prove that th...

Mars Flooding Evidence Further Points To Planet’s Wet Past

Mars flooding seems about as likely as finding extraterrestrial life on the planet, but new evidence suggests the red planet really was subject to intense flooding during its lifet...

Mars Rover Curiosity Swaps Computers

NASA announced today that Mars rover Curiosity has switched onboard c...

SpaceX Problem Alters Dragon Capsule Schedule

The second SpaceX mission to resupply the International Space Station (...

Radiation Belt Around Earth Discovered by NASA

NASA this week revealed that its Van Allen Probes have discovered a third radiation belt around the Earth. Before now, the Ear...

NASA Measures Fast-Spinning, Supermassive Black Hole

NASA today revealed that it has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA...

Russian Meteor Blast Explained by NASA [VIDEO]

On February 15, when the world's astronomers were busy watching Asteroid 2012 DA14 make a close flyby of Earth, a dif...

NASA Visualizes Global Sea Surface Salinity

NASA just released this new video looking at sea surface salinity around the globe. The visualization comes from NASA's Aquarius instrument aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, fr...

Mars Rover Curiosity Analyzes Rock Powder

NASA this week announced that Mars rover Curiosity has successfully p...

NASA Report Explains Satellite Launch Failure

NASA this week released an eight-page report detailing all its engineers have learned about a failed...

Mars Rover Curiosity Shows Off Its First Drill Sample

Last week, Mars rover Curiosity, after months of meticulous planning, finally...

NASA’s Kepler Finds Extra-Solar Planets Smaller Than Earth

Over the past year, NASA's Kepler mission has found...

NASA’s Cassini Probe Finds Accelerated Particles Around Saturn

NASA this week revealed that a "chance encounter" with solar wind around Saturn has allowed the...

Google Hires Mars Rover Driver (And He’s Very Concerned About Evil)

Google has hired NASA Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell, saying he will be working on "high-reliability" software. We're happy to wel...