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As space technology in the United States is increasingly taking a market swing towards the private sector, well-known NASA compatriot SpaceX has just demonstrated another feat free of government intervention - a rocket that has is reusable after a leap into the skies.
NASA officials have announced they will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
The "Harlem Shake" has permeated all walks of life. Videos are posted by the young, the old, people in countries across the globe, by students and even highly qualified professionals. Recent videos have proven the expanding reach and social impact of the viral meme. Two videos sparked protest in Egypt and Tunisia, another got a dozen gold miners fired in Australia, another performed on jet plane caught the FAA's unwanted attention, and now even NASA is getting in on the "fun."
It was a harrowing few hours for both SpaceX and NASA as the private space corporation hired to ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) hit a snag - the Dragon capsule's thrusters malfunctioned. Thanks to some quick on-the-feet thinking, however, the crisis has been averted, and the capsule is on its way to astronauts aboard the ISS, albeit with a slightly later ETA.
As the Curiosity rover continues its historic mission on Mars's surface and talks of a manned mission to the red planet circulate among astronomers, a group of researchers have been quietly busying themselves designing a unique robot called a "hedgehog" that will explore the Martian moon Phobos.
Astronomers studying supermassive black holes say they have accurately measured how fast the mysterious consumers of space matter spin.
Researchers conducting a theoretical study say it's easier to detect oxygen on planets orbiting dying stars adding that scientists should be able to find such potentially life sustaining planets within the next decade.
NASA released a spectacular video on Wednesday that was captured by a sun-watching spacecraft and shows loops of superheated plasma raining down on the sun's surface.
NASA's Kepler mission, whose goal is to search for and study habitable planets, has identified a rather tiny planet of significance recently: Kepler-37b is smallest planet we know of outside our solar system orbiting around a star similar to our sun.
NASA has released a video of the asteroid that flew by Earth over the weekend and came closer to the planet that some communication satellites.
NASA reported that they lost contact with the International Space Station Tuesday morning because of a computer glitch, but the space agency now reports that communication has been reestablished with the six astronauts onboard the ISS.
Cosmic rays, more specifically high-speed protons, constantly bombard our Earth with potentially-harmful particles almost nonstop, but their exact origins have remained somewhat of a mystery to scientists - until now. A new study reveals that these incredibly fast-moving particles are the result of dying stars.
How young is young? Most of our answers would be double-digit ages, but not in the cosmic scheme of things. NASA scientists are now cautiously stating that they might have found the youngest black hole in our galaxy, and it's only 1,000 years old.
As the Earth experiences rising temperatures, a new NASA study utilizing NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites found that the Middle East has lost the water equivalent of the Dead Sea over just seven years. NASA hopes that the study will prompt people to recognize the harmful effects of quickly depleting groundwater.
NASA launched a new Landsat spacecraft into orbit today, Feb. 11, marking the continuition of a project that has been running on for over 40 years. The spacecraft is now safely in orbit, and will provide scientists and the public a look at Earth itself every 16 days.
