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The hypothesis that Mercury has abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its shadowed polar craters appears to have been confirmed....

NASA and Google Evangelist Use Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have successfully controlled an ed...

Hurricane Strength Forecasts Improved by NASA Study

A new NASA study shows that hurricane forecasters may soon be able t...

Huge Saturn Storm Photographed by Cassini

NASA today released photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Sat...

Cute “Dumb Ways to Die” Parody Promotes NASA with “Cool Things to Find”

A couple of weeks ago, a quirky little ad campaign for train safety w...

Titan’s Atmosphere Shifts Abruptly, South Pole Vortex Forms

New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that a shift in seasonal sunlight has resulted in an abrupt, wholesale reversa...

William Shatner, Wil Wheaton Tout NASA Accomplishments

Though the budget for NASA has been declining since the early 90s, the discoveries and technological advances coming out of the...

Dust Storm on Mars Now Dissipating

NASA this week announced that a dust storm on Mars appears to be dissipating, instead of growing into a global storm. The dust...

Mars Rover Curiosity Celebrates a Milestone

This week marks one year since Mars rover Curiosity launched on the Mars Science Laboratory from Cape Canaveral on Earth....

NASA Spots Pac-Man-Shaped Thermal Pattern on Saturn Moon

Scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feat...

Mars Rovers Detect Regional Dust Storm Effects

A recent regional Martian dust storm has grown large enough for both of the functioning NASA Mars rovers,...

Massive Solar Eruption Spotted by NASA Observatory

NASA announced this week that a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted on the sun early Tuesday morning. The phenomenon can send...

Astronomers Spot ‘Bridge’ of Hot Gas Connecting Galaxy Clusters

Astronomers using the Planck space telescope have confirmed the presence of a bridge of hot gas bridging the 10 million light-years of intergalactic space between two galaxy cluste...

Mars Rover Curiosity On the Move Again, With Rumors of a “Big” Discovery

After spending weeks stationed at the "Rocknest" site scooping up soil samples, Mars ro...

NASA Study Finds Global Sea Level Rising Once Again

Though the world's oceans have been steadily rising at a rate of 3.2 mm per year for decades now, NASA scientists reported last...

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