Artist concept of Mars Exploration Rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

May 1, 2013

Opportunity Exits Standby, Back at Work

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has exited a standby mode and is now executing a sequence of commands sent by the rover team.

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Cool Andromeda

April 29, 2013

Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space

The Herschel observatory, which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.

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The Rose

April 29, 2013

NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.

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Curiosity's Entry, Descent and Landing Team at National Air and Space Museum

April 25, 2013

Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy

The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.

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Meteors Meet Saturn's Rings

April 25, 2013

NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding with Saturn's Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.

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Fly Along with Voyager to Interstellar Space

April 24, 2013

NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are on the verge of plunging into interstellar space -- the space between stars -- and two new Web tools let the public fly along.

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Distribution of Water in Jupiter's Stratosphere

April 23, 2013

Herschel Links Water Around Jupiter to Comet Impact

Astronomers trace water in Jupiter's intermediate atmospheric layer back to the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact of 19 years ago.

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Galaxy Packs Big Star-Making Punch

April 23, 2013

Galaxy Goes Green in Burning Stellar Fuel

Astronomers have spotted the most efficient maker of stars yet, a galaxy undergoing a rare phase of evolution.

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The HyspIRI airborne campaign overflew California's San Andreas Fault on March 29, 2013.

April 22, 2013

NASA's HyspIRI Sees the Forest for the Trees and More

As the world celebrates Earth Day 2013, a NASA airborne campaign is busy studying California's ecosystems in a whole new light in preparation for a future satellite mission.

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Kepler-62 and the Solar System

April 18, 2013

Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."

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