NASA Learns What Powers Those Lights
We reported that NASA was using a fleet of five of their satellites to discover what caused Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis.
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Sending Those Martian Soils Home—Working Group Defines Requirements
The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realization with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group.
Read MoreHow Could This Nova Have Been Originally Missed?
XMM-Newton has discovered an exploding star in the Milky Way. Usually that would be important in itself, but this time there is a special twist.
Read MoreNASA Reveals the Powers in Night Lights
Those beautiful and complicated Northern Lights, or aurora borealis — what makes them move and brighten? NASA will tell all at a media teleconference on Thursday, July 24, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the first results from a fleet of five satellites.
Read MoreRivers Ran, Lakes Lapped On Mars
Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers, and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life.
Read MoreChallenges To Continue For Cassini
June 30th marked the end of the four-year primary mission for the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft mission and the start of the extended mission.
Read MoreMessenger Finds More To Mercury
Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years.
Read MoreUlysses Asset Soon To Be Frozen Out
According to the controllers of the European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft have revealed that the fuel that's required to keep the antenna pointed toward Earth has started to freeze.
Read MoreESA’s Rosetta Wakes Up To Meet Steins
Spacecraft controllers have awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for the spacecraft's encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on September 5th.
Read MoreHeliosphere, Heliosheath, All In STEREO
NASA's sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year.
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