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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On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at JPL

April 18, 2013

Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' List

On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth.

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New Project Managers for Mars Orbiters

April 17, 2013

NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project Managers

Two NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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Artist's Impression of Starburst Galaxy

April 17, 2013

Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe

Busy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby.

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Tempel Alive with Light

April 16, 2013

How to Target an Asteroid

The hunt is on for methods to aim a spacecraft at an asteroid.

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Artist's concept of NASA's Kepler space telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

April 16, 2013

NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Kepler Planetary Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.

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These images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show one of the large seas and a bounty of smaller lakes on Saturn's moon Titan.

April 15, 2013

Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

NASA's Cassini mission tracks long-lived lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere and finds that the moon's methane may be disappearing.

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NEOCam Sensor

April 15, 2013

NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test.

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