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Jun 19, 2013 07:17 AM EDT

NASA Seeks Help to Hunt Asteroids That Pose Threat to Earth

NASA has announced the Asteroid Grand that focuses on hunting all asteroids that pose a threat to human populations. This challenge not only identifies dangerous near-Earth asteroids but will also design a way to deal with these asteroids.

NASA’s Cassini to Capture Earth in a Photo That Will Appear as a Small Pale Blue Dot

Jun 19, 2013 06:50 AM EDT

NASA’s Cassini to Capture Earth in a Photo From the Vicinity of Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft that is currently exploring Saturn is all set to snap a picture of our home planet from hundreds of millions of miles away on July 19, NASA reports on Tuesday.

Students and engineers participate in a prelaunch briefing before liftoff of the Prospector P-18 rocket.

Jun 18, 2013 08:24 PM EDT

CubeSat High-Altitude Flight Test by Student Teams in California Desert

Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams.

Jun 08, 2013 08:45 AM EDT

NASA Discovers Unmapped Wildfire Destroying Amazon Rainforest

NASA has revealed that unknown understory fires are destroying several times more Amazon rainforest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years.

Jun 08, 2013 08:04 AM EDT

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Discovers New Rock, Revealing Planet's Watery Past

NASA Mars rover Opportunity isn't just on the move, it's also discovered a clay-rich rock that hints to the fact that water existed on the Red Planet in the past.

This visible image of System 91L was taken from the GOES-14 satellite.

Jun 06, 2013 08:20 PM EDT

See This Developing Tropical Storm From Space That Will Hit Florida This Weekend

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over low pressure System 91L in the Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared imagery that revealed a lot of uplift and strong thunderstorms in the eastern part of the storm despite a poorly organized circulation. NOAA's GOES-East satellite showed the large extent of the low ...

concept of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission.

Jun 06, 2013 08:11 PM EDT

NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-observing Microwave Radiometer

A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.

Artist’s concept of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.

Jun 05, 2013 05:19 PM EDT

Ion Drive Powered Dawn Spacecraft is Flying Through Asteroid Belt

Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system.

Jun 05, 2013 01:26 PM EDT

Climate Change on Mars: NASA Rover Curiosity Discovers Evidence of Ancient Rivers

The Mars rover Curiosity may not have found evidence of life, but it's definitely found evidence of water on the Red Planet. NASA scientists have revealed that the rover has found evidence that rivers once ran across the surface of Mars that were between an inch to nearly three feet deep.

Jun 01, 2013 08:23 AM EDT

Astronauts Impacted by Radiation Hazards on Mars Trek: Cancer Risk Increases in Deep Space

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has confirmed the hazards of space radiation. Sending astronauts to the Red Planet without a properly protected spacecraft could drastically increase their risk of cancer.

May 31, 2013 06:28 AM EDT

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Discovers Evidence for Ancient Streambed and Flowing Water

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has collected data and evidence that reveals an ancient streambed on Mars. The findings could hint at the possibility of life on the Red Planet in the past.

May 30, 2013 08:01 AM EDT

NASA WISE Mission Discovers New Asteroid Families Between Mars and Jupiter

In the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, families of asteroids spin through space. Now, researchers have used NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to make some new finds about these objects.