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NASA's Kepler Wraps Prime Mission, Begins Extension
NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has completed its mission and is starting an extended mission.
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Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
New stars can be seen bubbling up around the remains of a dramatic stellar explosion in this new portrait from two space telescopes.
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NASA Hosts Nov. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover Progress
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Thursday, Nov. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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Rover's 'SAM' Lab Instrument Suite Tastes Soil
A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM.
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Long-Lived Orbiter Resumes Work With Fresh Equipment
The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment that had not be used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch.
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NASA Study Examines Antarctic Sea Ice Increases
While Arctic sea ice cover is declining dramatically under the effects of climate change, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased in recent years. A new study examines why.
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A Scroll Through Memory Lane With Cassini
A new, interactive version of a timeline of NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn is now available online.
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Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections
A new NASA-funded study finds future warming of Earth's climate is likely to be on the high side of current projections.
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Curiosity Team Switches Back to Earth Time
After three months working on "Mars time," the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned.
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NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8
Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have obtained several radar images depicting near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8.
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Scientists Monitor Comet Breakup
Comet 168P/Hergenrother is breaking up, right before our very eyes.
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NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere
NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.
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NASA Maps How Nutrients Affect Plant Productivity
A new analysis led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has estimated how much the growth of plants worldwide is limited by the amount of nutrients available in their soil.
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Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life
Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a new study.
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Dawn Sees 'Young' Surface on Giant Asteroid
Like a Hollywood starlet constantly retouching her makeup, the giant asteroid Vesta is constantly stirring its outermost layer to present a young face.
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NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.
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NASA Satellites Watch Hurricane Sandy
NASA satellites are observing extremely dangerous and historic Hurricane Sandy as it moves into the northeastern U.S.
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Continuing Work With Scoops at 'Rocknest'
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 (Oct. 29, 2012) photographed diverse rocks in the "Rocknest" area and prepared for overnight soil sample analysis.
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NASA Oct. 30 Telecon About Mars Curiosity Progress
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill
Researchers at JPL and Caltech have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in oil spills like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill.