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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. ? NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

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Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'

01.07.08

Hubble images reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas.

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Planet-Finding Mission Arrives in Florida

01.07.09

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in March on a journey to search for other Earths, arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Fermi Unveils Dozen New Pulsars

01.06.09

The Fermi Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and detected pulses from 18 others.

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Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight

A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected in 2006.
NASA's Swift Shows Active Galaxies Are Different Near and Far

An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe.
Gamma-Ray Burst Offers First Peek at a Young Galaxy's Star Factory

Astronomers have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.
Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail

Researchers are getting a new detailed look at our galaxy's core, thanks to the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars

Brown dwarfs just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope.

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Latest News Releases

NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity

01.12.09 - NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity.
New NASA Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

01.08.09 - NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.