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NASA Watching Storms in the Atlantic and the Pacific

NASA satellites and astronauts aboard the International Space Station are keeping an eye on the oceans with storms churning in both the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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NASA Tops Off Hurricane Research with Historic Global Hawk Flight Over Earl

NASA completed a historic day for its hurricane research on Thursday as it put the Global Hawk over Earl, marking the first time the unmanned drone flew over a fully formed hurricane.

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Solar Probe Plus Mission to Plunge Directly Into Sun's Atmosphere

NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. Solar Probe Plus, slated to launch no later than 2018, will explore approximately four million miles from our star's surface.

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NASA astronaut Leland Melvin and singer-actor Mos Def.

New Collaborations Bring the Excitement of Space to the Next Generation of Explorers

In a series of innovative collaborations -- including a public service announcement with recording artist Mary J. Blige -- NASA is getting the word out that studying science, technology, engineering and math is a great way to open the door to a bright future.

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artist concept of Phoenix, left, and first image from Viking, right

Missing Piece From Phoenix Inspires New Look at Mars Viking Puzzle

Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

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Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

New research using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that near-Earth objects are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions. Observations of 100 known near-Earth asteroids demonstrate the objects’ diversity.

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Desert RATS: The Future of Human Space Exploration

To see what life might be like on a distant planet, one only need travel to the Arizona desert, where NASA's Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, is testing rovers, habitats and robots that could be used in future missions.

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NASA Images

A Chameleon Sky

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing...