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Join the #GlobalSelfie with NASA on Earth Day 2014! ASA invites you — and everyone else on the planet — to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day this year with the agency’s #GlobalSelfie event. The year 2014…
Here is the latest satellite image of the tropical cyclone Ita that is making landfall in Queensland, Australia on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, today, April 11, 2014. The image was captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite. Ita…
Look at this image transmitted from Mars to Earth by NASA’s Curiosity rover. It showed an artificial light, a white speck of something in its upper left-hand portion. Does the light suggest the possibility of life on Mars? Alien enthusiasts…
In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured infrared-light images of a churning region of star birth 6,400 light-years away. The collection of images reveals a shadowy, dense knot of gas…
Yes, NASA will make a garden on the moon! Can humans live and work on the moon? Not just visit for a few days but stay for decades? A first step in long term presence is to send plants. As…
Nine university teams and one high school team will experience on Tuesday a feat that few outside the aerospace industry will ever realize: watching the nanosatellites, or cubesats, that they designed and built launch into space. An addition to the…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what they can only describe as a never-before-seen “weird and freakish object” in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler. Normal asteroids should appear simply as tiny points of…
Comet ISON journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Mars — at some 230 million miles away from the sun —…
The Moon Mission was launched! LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer robotic probe launched Friday night atop an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur V rocket. The first deep space mission from Wallops Flight Facility, LADEE will orbit the moon…
On August 21, 2013 at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later….