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NASA Balloon Crashes in Australia

Friday, April 30th, 2010 - 16:14:40 - Anuradha Menon

A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian...

Next Mars Rover To Include 3D Camera

Friday, April 30th, 2010 - 10:33:03 - Anuradha Menon

Movie director James Cameron, of Avatar and Titanic fame, is helping to build a 3-D camera for the next robotic rover that NASA will send to Mars...

'Rings Of Fire' Erupt From Sun
Monday, April 26th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
Fiery rings of ionised gas erupt from the sun in the first videos taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The satellite...

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NASA Extends the Internet Out Into Space

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 - 16:51:15 - Anuradha Menon

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet and the World Wide...

Kepler Finds Its First Planets

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 - 10:17:04 - Anuradha Menon

Stars hum and throb, and the vibrations of this cosmic music could aid the NASA satellite Kepler in its goal of finding an Earth-like extrasolar...

Kepler's First Five Exoplanets

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 - 19:37:55 - Ehud Rattner

NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new...

Swirling Clouds of Carina Nebula
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located...