Science

Hubble's Close Encounter with the Tarantula

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Turning its eye to the Tarantula Nebula, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken this...

Nanomaterials help heart to heal: NCKU study

The new technology helps endogenous stem cells achieve cardiac and vascular regeneration, and is seen as a promising cure for heart diseases.

Curiosity Preps for a Planned 'Brain Transplant'

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This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover.

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving

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This imagery is being released in association with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory...

Astronomers Release the Largest Ever Three-Dimensional Map of the Sky

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This is a still image from a video fly-through of the SDSS-III galaxies mapped in Data Release 9.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing

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NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to...

ESA spacecraft records crucial NASA signals from Mars

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Curiosity's first view of Mars

NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain

NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.