Astronomers viewing our solar system’s asteroid belt with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel.
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NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to focus on questions concerning space science and human space exploration.
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NASA’s Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before.
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NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 28, to discuss the upcoming launch of the agency’s next mission to Mars and the first devoted to understanding the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn’s moon Titan.
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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 of approximately 500,000 images of celestial objects, NASA’s Deep Impact mission has ended.
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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) from our sun.
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The Sunday Experiment is a free afternoon for children of all ages and their families to discover NASA Goddard’s exciting missions on Sept. 15, 2013.
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NASA-funded lunar research has yielded evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath the surface.
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Media accreditation now is open for two launches and a media viewing opportunity in September from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The media activities are associated with the launch of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission, the agency’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel Mission research flights and the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s demonstration mission to the International Space Station.
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