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An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in the…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched on time at 10:10 a.m. EST, Friday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The goal of the SpaceX 2 mission is to resupply the International Space…
NASA released this beautiful photo of a young black hole, called W49B, and just 1,000 years old. NASA scientists, using the Chandra X-ray space telescope, managed to zoom in on this colorful explosion of W49B — an oddly mesmerizing piece…
When the newest Landsat spacecraft trains its state-of-the-art sensors on Earth’s surface, it will provide images of our ever-changing planet in unparalleled clarity. Launched by NASA in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, the LandSat 8 or Landsat Data Continuity…
An Asteroid Flyby is expected on February 15. Small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office can…
On Feb. 5, 1974, Mariner 10 took this first close-up photo of the planet Venus. Made using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus’s cloudy atmosphere as the human eye would…
A group has managed to get more than 34,000 signatures for the petition “Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016” to get a White House response. On Friday, Paul Shawcross, the White House’s chief…
461 new planets to be exact. The NASA Kepler mission on Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the new planets may have liquid water on the surface as they orbit in their sun’s “habitable zone.”…
The New Year’s Eve sun eruption was so huge that it could swallow 20 Earths, NASA reports. The giant solar eruption was captured on camera by NASA’s powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory. A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun…
Preparations are under way to begin the build-up of the Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA’s TDRS-K At Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V booster stage will be hoisted into position in…