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The Quest for Environmentally Sustainable Materials
Machine Learning increasingly is being used to aid material discovery, since it can drastically speed up the process
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NASA Concludes Attempts To Contact Mars Rover Spirit
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.
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Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon...
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NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to...
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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system.
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, Messenger captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's...
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Nasa's Messenger Spacecraft Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. This marks the first time a spacecraft has accomplished...
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Heading Into the Bonus Round
A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round...
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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...
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Teen Sailor Meets Nasa Team That Helped Save Her Life
It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland’s 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the...
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Microsoft and Nasa Bring Mars Down to Earth Through the Worldwide Telescope
Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and...
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Planck Takes It All In
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.
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