Science

NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site

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This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory...

NASA'S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare

During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new tool for...

Sforzi concentrati sul lancio delle missioni Sentinel dell'ESA

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Black Hole Growth Found To Be Out Of Sync

New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home

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This image shows our own back yard, astronomically speaking, from a vantage point about 30 light-years away from the sun...

NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms Of Ocean Plant Life

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice to find waters richer in microscopic...

NASA'S Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The objects could be wildly massive stars or voracious black holes. They are too far away to be...

Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution

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Danielson and Kalocsa craters