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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,…
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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…
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A new study finds that long-term heat therapy may increase mitochondrial function in the muscles.…
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a…
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel.…
The International Space Station (ISS) is officially home to the coolest experiment in space. NASA’s…
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will…
Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that…
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Astronomers in the past decade have detected thousands of galaxies dating from epochs only a…