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Video: Curiosity’s first year on Mars in two minutes
Cool rover’s eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity rover’s first year on Mars.
August 5, 2013
Perseid fireballs are already arriving!
NASA says the annual Perseid meteor shower produces more fireballs than any other. Although the shower's peak is still some days away, the fireballs are here!
August 3, 2013
First X-ray detection of exoplanet passing in front of its star
The planet - HD 189733b - is a hot Jupiter, similar in size to Jupiter but more than 30 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. It orbits its star once every 2.2 days.
July 30, 2013
Station astronauts remotely control planetary rover from space
"Specifically, this project represents the first fully-interactive remote operation of a planetary rover by an astronaut in space." - Terry Fong
July 30, 2013
Mysterious centaurs are comets, say NASA scientists
"Our data point to a cometary origin for most of the objects, suggesting they are coming from deeper out in the solar system." - James Bauer
July 29, 2013
Van Allen radiation belts have a particle accelerator
Scientists knew something accelerated particles in the belts to 99 percent the speed of light. New results show the acceleration energy comes from within the belts themselves.
July 26, 2013
New sharp image of Whirlpool Galaxy
A new camera on a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson has given us this beautiful view of the Whirlpool, which is also called M51.
July 26, 2013
New discoveries about quasars
“For the first time, we are able to see the actual extent to which these quasars and their black holes can affect their galaxies," - Astronomer Kevin Hainline
July 25, 2013
Limits to galactic growth
When a galaxy makes too many stars too quickly, it reduces its capacity for making stars in the future. Now astronomers have the first detailed images of this self-limiting galactic behavior.
July 25, 2013
Want to find distant planets? Our own sun offers clues
A new study teaches us about the formation of our own solar system, and might also aid in the search for other stars orbited by habitable planets.
July 24, 2013
