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When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will…
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made…
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On an ancient seafloor, burrowing animals appeared and churned up sediment as a sort of…
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Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people…
Astronomers have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical…
When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of…
NASA’s efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite…
Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same,…
Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of…
In the last several years, 3D printing with plastics has advanced rapidly. Now, a team…
The Robotic Operations Center (ROC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is full of whirring and…
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows…
Our Sun’s beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about…
A new study finds that long-term heat therapy may increase mitochondrial function in the muscles.…