Time-Lapse Video Of Hurricane Sandy Is 35 Seconds Of Terror
NASA's Earth Observatory has a time-lapse video of Hurricane Sandy compiled from images taken on Oct. 26, as the 75-mph storm tore through the Bahamas. Sandy is even scarier from 22,000 miles above...
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Curiosity's New Tests Show That Martian Soils Look Like Hawaiian Sands
The soils in the Martian valley of Gale Crater are similar in composition to sand found in Hawaii, NASA officials said during a teleconference today October 30. Here's the area where the Curiosity...
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Part Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise May Have Been Torn Away During Superstom...
Count Space Shuttle Enterprise as another one of Sandy's victims. The 60-foot-high pavilion protecting the space shuttle aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's flight deck collapsed during...
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Elon Musk's 'Grasshopper Project' Could Revolutionize Rocketry
Superhero-like tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has some incredible plans for his space business, SpaceX. His company became the first private one to put a spacecraft into orbit and bring it back, and it...
View ArticleNASA Animation Shows The Birth And Growth Of A Galaxy
The incredible video below shows how galaxies are formed and grow over billions of years. It was posted by NASAexplore last week. Here's the description:This cosmological simulation follows the...
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Incredible New Radar Views Of A Giant Asteroid In Its Closest Earth Flyby
2007 PA8 is a one mile-wide asteroid floating many million miles from Earth. Between Oct. 28 and Oct. 30, NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in California collected data of the space rock during its...
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Rumor Has It We're Sending Humans Beyond The Moon
President Barack Obama is still in power, which is good news for NASA, whose budget, strategy and missions may have been revised under defeated Republication presidential candidate Mitt Romney....
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New-Found Planet Could Have A Climate Just Like Earth
Researchers have discovered a super-Earth planet circling a star at a distance that would allow that planet to support life.The planet, which is at least seven times more massive than Earth, is...
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Go On A Cosmic Journey With Our Six Favorite Carl Sagan Clips
Seventy-eight years ago today Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York. Little did he, or his parents, know that he would leave a lasting impression on science for decades after his death.See our...
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How To Watch Tomorrow's Extremely Rare Total Solar Eclipse
A total solar eclipse is happening tomorrow, but only a lucky few people in Australia will get to see it in person. Here's what you need to know about the rare phenomenon.What is a solar eclipse?...
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Why The Leonid Meteor Shower Might Disappoint This Year
It's that time of the year again! The annual Leonid meteor shower is set to peak on Saturday, Nov. 17 before dawn and again on Tuesday, Nov. 20. The dazzling display happens every year around...
View ArticleWatch The Rare Solar Eclipse Live!
A total solar eclipse begins today at 3:35 p.m. EST. The rare phenomenon — which won't happen again until 2015 — will only be visible to a sliver of northeast Australia, where it will be 6.35 a.m. on...
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Stunning Pictures From The Total Solar Eclipse
A total solar eclipse happened Tuesday afternoon.The phenomenon won't happen again until March 2015, according to Space.com. Only a sliver of northern Australia (where it was Nov. 14) was lucky enough...
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New Google Mars Images Are Even Sharper Than Google's View Of Our Own Planet
Google Mars is a spin-off of Google Earth that shows interactive maps of the Red Planet's surface. The feature was released in 2009 as part of the free downloadable Google Earth app, but until now,...
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Astronomers Have Spotted The Closest Ever Planet Floating Without A Star
A planet that does not orbit a host star has been found 100 light years from Earth.The planet, named CFBDSIR2149, is known as a "rogue" or "free-floating" planet because it wanders through space free...
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Mars Rover Makes Crucial Discovery For Putting An Astronaut On Mars
The Mars Curiosity rover is three months into its two-year mission to determine if Mars was, or still is, able to support life. One life-limiting factor to habitability — and critical to a future...
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Martian Dust Devils Keep Landing On Curiosity
The pictures that the Mars Curiosity Rover send back may look placid and peaceful, but life in Gale crater can get windy at times, new data suggests.NASA researchers announced today evidence of dust...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Massive Space Shuttle Encased In Shrink Wrap
NASA's space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Vistor Complex earlier this month, where it will be showcased in an exhibit once the museum opens next summer. Until then, the retired...
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The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen Has Just Been Discovered
Astronomers have found the oldest galaxy seen yet in the universe using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. The newly-discovered galaxy, called MACS0647-JD, is 13.3 billion light years away...
View ArticleTwo Massive Solar Eruptions Captured In High-Definition Video
NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory captured two giant explosions on the sun, one after the other, on Nov. 16, 2012. The eruptions, which happened over a 4-hour period, were so large, "it expanded beyond...
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