NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space.
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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 8, to announce the proposals selected for study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, or NIAC, program.
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Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling toward its first of four intensive science orbits.
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NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency’s Twitter account to a two-day launch Tweetup Aug. 4-5.
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The Herschel Space Observatory’s large telescope and state-of-the-art infrared detectors have provided the first confirmed finding of oxygen molecules in space. The molecules were discovered in the Orion star-forming complex.
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NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at noon EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft’s successful orbit insertion around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from Dawn’s framing camera.
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The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays.
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NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft’s successful orbit insertion around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from Dawn’s framing camera.
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Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have discovered the first known “Trojan” asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth.
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