Latest Kepler data includes over 700 exoplanet candidates
Voyager 2 stops making sense
Voyager 2, which has been traveling through the solar system since the late '70s, has suffered a data formatting glitch that is preventing NASA from interpreting...
NASA planet hunters may only be releasing limited data set
Scientific data sharing has become big news in the wake of the theft of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit and ensuing investigations. Although the CRU researchers appear to have had...
Obama resuscitates Orion, leaves it on life support
Early in his term in office, President Obama had his science director order a reevaluation of NASA's manned space programs, one that concluded that the agency was committed to goals that its budget simply couldn't support. That set the stage for a major revamp of the agency's priorities,...
Highest-resolution Earth photo looks familiar for a reason
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Last month, Gizmodo posted an incredible image from NASA: The most accurate, highest-resolution photo of Earth taken to date. It's stunning, in all of its 2048 x 2048 pixel glory. In fact, there are two...iPod App Reviews: NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator
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President Obama Aborts NASA’s Constellation Program
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NASA reboots, focuses on cheaper, sustainable exploration
Last October, NASA received a committee report that called existing planning "unsustainable." The agency couldn't even budget the money to deorbit the International Space Station as planned in 2016—itself a...
Brief: NASA’s Kepler spots 5 planets in its first 6 weeks of data
The American Astronomical Society is holding its latest meeting (the 215th!) this week, and the team behind NASA's Kepler probe has used the opportunity to announce the first discoveries for the new probe. The first and easiest planets to spot are the so-called "hot Jupiters," massive planets that orbit...
Cassini sheds light on Saturn’s 30- and 300-year mysteries
This week, data from NASA's Cassini probe has shed light on a couple of the stranger features of Saturn, providing answers to questions that were raised years ago. In terms...
A new accessory for your iPhone: a NASA-developed chemical sensor
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What's better than a handful of sensors for determining if some hostile enemy has set off chemical weapons in a city? How about hundreds of thousands or millions of sensors? If research being done by Follow seriouslymac on Twitter!
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