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X-ray and gamma-ray data from ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral orbiting observatories has been used to test, for the first time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutron stars, shine in X-rays.
Read MoreAn amazing feat that took 10 years between NASA and Google resulted in a successful test of the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet from a NASA spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
Read MoreThe story doesn't begin here, but this is what was announced. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshots of a planet orbiting another star.
Read MoreAfter assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks.
Read MoreNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today, right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Read MoreSay hello to the new kid on the block, as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b,
Read MoreNASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final launch preparations.
Read MoreJust over three weeks since its Oct. 19 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft — the first mission designed to image the interaction at the edge of the solar system — concluded its orbit-raising phase and is beginning instrument commissioning in preparation to start science observations.
Read MoreSaturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
Read MoreIndia's maiden unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has reached its final orbital home, about 100 kms over the moon surface.
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