team of researchers, including a NASA scientist, reports that an early-life nitrogen crisis may have triggered a critical evolutionary leap about 2 billion years ago. The team, from Universidad Nacional […]
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74,768 results found Sort by:NASA Tests New Airborne Tracking System Designed to Bridge the Gulf
Keeping up with aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico is difficult if not impossible in some instances. Now, that may change, with the help of NASA and the Department […]
Boeing and IBM Set New Record With World’s Most Powerful Satellite Digital Communications Processor
Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), a unit of The Boeing Company, and IBM today announced they have created the world’s most powerful satellite-based digital signal processor, designed to make space-borne wireless […]
Genesis Set to Catch a Piece of the Sun
NASA’S next robotic space explorer is ready to do a little sunbathing on a mission to catch a wisp of raw material from the luminous celestial body around which the […]
Bechtel, Forever Bound, Luncacorp to sponsor “Return to the Moon” Symposium
The Space Frontier Foundation today announced the addition of Bechtel National, Inc., Forever Bound, and LunaCorp as sponsors for this year‚s "Return to the Moon III" symposium to be held […]
S-Cam, the world’s most advanced optical camera, captures eclipse of binary star
A totally new type of optical detector has been used on the William Herschel Telescope to directly measure intensity and colour changes in a faint, rapidly variable binary star system, […]
COSMOS 1 Solar Sail Sub-orbital Test Flight: All Systems go for July 19th Launch
The deployment test flight for the Cosmos 1 Solar Sail project has been re-scheduled to launch on July 19, 2001 at 4:49 AM (Moscow time), July 18, 2001 at 5:49 […]
Stellar Apocalypse Yields First Evidence of Water-bearing Worlds Beyond our Solar System
As an alien sun blazes through its death throes, it is apparently vaporizing a surrounding swarm of comets, releasing a huge cloud of water vapor. The discovery, reported in an […]
Twelve New-Found Moons of Saturn Are Collisional Remnants of Larger Moons
Astronomers have discovered 12 more moons around Saturn. And they have evidence that these once were just 3 or 4 moons, minding their business, orbiting the planet like all regular […]
Scientists seeking secrets of ‘Lost City’ hydrothermal vent structures
The remarkable hydrothermal vent structures serendipitously discovered last December in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, including a massive 18-story vent taller than any seen before, are formed in a very different way […]