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TESS mission selected for 2017 launch

NASA announced on Friday that the The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be one of two mission scheduled for launch in 2017. TESS will use an array of six telescopes to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting...

CASIS unveils mission patch at Engadget Expand

Representatives of the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) made a special announcement at the Engadget Expand conference in San Francisco on Sunday, March 17. The group is in charge of managing the U.S. National Laboratory aboard...

NASA rover finds evidence that ancient Mars could have supported life

At a press conference held today at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. scientists with the Curiosity Mars rover mission announced findings from the analysis of rock powder obtained when the rover first used its drill on bedrock near its...

Kepler spacecraft discovers smallest exoplanet ever

Scientists with NASA’s Kepler announced today that they have discovered a planetary system containing the smallest planet ever found orbiting a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37 which is...

Russian meteor explosion highlights asteroid threat

On Friday a meteor exploded high above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia shattering glass and injuring 1,158 people. This unexpected event occurred the same day that asteroid 2012 DA14 passed within 17,000 miles of...

Kepler spacecraft develops problem

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has developed a problem with one of its three remaining reaction wheels. If the wheel fails completely the spacecraft will be unable to accurately point its telescope at the 100,000 stars...

Kepler mission discovers new planet candidates

Scientists with NASA’s Kepler mission have announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the new potential planets are less the twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun’s “habitable zone...

Scientists publish Sutter's Mill meteorite findings

An international team of 70 scientists including researchers from NASA Ames and the SETI Institute published the results of their analysis of the Sutter's Mill meteorite in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The scientists reported...

NASA scientist addresses end of the world rumors

NASA Ames Research Center released a video yesterday in which astrobiologist and senior Ames scientist David Morrison addresses several theories that the world will end or face some kind of cosmic cataclysm on Friday December...

NASA's twin probes to end mission with lunar impact on Monday (Video)

Two lunar-orbiting NASA spacecraft that have helped scientists to learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon are being prepared for their controlled descent and impact on a mountain near the moon’s north pole...

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TESS mission selected for 2017 launch

CASIS unveils mission patch at Engadget Expand

NASA rover finds evidence that ancient Mars could have supported life

Kepler spacecraft discovers smallest exoplanet ever

Russian meteor explosion highlights asteroid threat

Kepler spacecraft develops problem

Kepler mission discovers new planet candidates

Scientists publish Sutter's Mill meteorite findings

NASA scientist addresses end of the world rumors

NASA's twin probes to end mission with lunar impact on Monday (Video)

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