On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, will fly past asteroid Lutetia this Saturday, July 10. The […]
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Slovak Republic signs Cooperation Agreement With ESA
The Slovak Republic signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA on 28 April 2010. This agreement will allow the Slovak Republic and ESA to create the framework for a more consolidated […]
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High Resolution Temperature Map of Mimas Released
PASADENA, Calif. — The highest-resolution-yet temperature map and images of Saturn’s icy moon Mimas obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including […]
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NASA Needs a Destination
On Feb. 2, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced a new space policy incorporating three key decisions:
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Last Visit Home for ESA’s Comet Chaser
ESA’s Rosetta comet chaser will swing by Earth on 13 November to pick up orbital energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to the outer Solar System. […]
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LRO’s LAMP Shedding Light on Shadowed Regions of the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than […]
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NASA Studies Cellulose For Food And Biofuel Production
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – For long-duration space missions, astronauts someday will grow plants for food and the air they breathe, while transforming inedible parts of the plants into useful resources, […]
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SETI@home Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The world’s largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent signals from space. No […]
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Astronomers Discover Local Star’s Cool Companion
An international team, led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, have discovered one of the coolest sub-stellar bodies ever found outside our own solar system, orbiting […]
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Surprise Discovery of Meteorites Following Asteroid Impact
Fortunately, it wasn’t large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed to Earth. It […]
