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Surprises from Mercury

Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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NASA's Messenger spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed "the Spider," a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers thought.

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Venus and Jupiter Converge

Posted: January 28th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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The two brightest planets are converging for a beautiful close encounter on Friday morning, February 1st.

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A Violent History of Time

Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.

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Mercury Flyby Sets Stage for New Discoveries

Posted: January 20th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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Last week's historic flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft gathered 500 megabytes of data and more than a thousand high-resolution photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.

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Radical New Lab Fights Disease Using Satellites

Posted: January 15th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama. Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites. Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.

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Exploring the Cosmos in Braille

Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can't see? The answer lies between the covers of a new NASA-funded book written in Braille, Touch the Invisible Sky.

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Ulysses Flyby of the Sun's North Pole

Posted: January 13th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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At a pivotal moment of the solar cycle, the NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft is flying over the sun's mysterious North Pole.

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Solar Cycle 24 Begins

Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:00pm PST

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Hang on to your cell phones, a new solar cycle is underway. Solar Cycle 24 began last week with the appearance of a magnetically "backward" high-latitude sunspot.

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