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X2 solar flare on May 5
The flare created a pulse of UV radiation and X-rays that caused a strong radio blackout over the Pacific.
May 6, 2015
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter drops nearer moon
Flight controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center completed a maneuver that lowered the spacecraft’s orbit to within 12 miles (20 km) of the moon's South Pole.
May 5, 2015
Scientists measure most distant galaxy yet
Galaxy EGS-zs8-1 sets a new distance record. It's so far away the light we receive left the galaxy over 13 billion years ago, and it is just arriving now.
May 5, 2015
Supernova missing link in gamma-ray burst mystery
Why do some supernovae produce gamma-ray bursts, while others don't? The answer may lie in the swirling disk - and powerful jets - that some supernovae leave behind.
May 2, 2015
Water abundant in first billion years after Big Bang?
Water vapor could have been just as abundant in pockets of space a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, according to new research.
May 1, 2015
MESSENGER ends mission, crashes into Mercury
Mission control confirmed end of operations at 3:40 p.m. EDT (1934 UTC), when no signal was detected by NASA’s Deep Space Network station at Goldstone.
April 30, 2015
Latest New Horizons images of Pluto
There may be an ice cap at Pluto's pole, as seen in the most recent images from the New Horizons spacecraft, now only 11 weeks from its historic flyby on July 14.
April 29, 2015
Russian cargo craft launched Tuesday, spinning out of control
Unpiloted craft carries 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for International Space Station. Thursday's rendezvous with ISS cancelled. The cargo craft may be lost.
April 28, 2015
Dancing tendrils on sun’s northeast limb
Where heliophysics meets art. Video acquired April 24 and 25, 2015.
April 27, 2015
Names needed in 20 distant solar systems
Deadline for submissions in the NameExoWorlds contest is June 15, 2015. Fifteen stars and 32 planets (47 objects total) in 20 solar systems available for naming.
April 27, 2015
