Science@NASA Headline News
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Bright Explosion on the Moon
May 16, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program. It was caused by a small boulder-sized meteoroid hitting the Moon with as much energy as 5 tons of TNT.
Planets Aligning in the Sunset Sky
May 10, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
Glow-in-the-Dark Plants on the ISS
May 6, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
Can plants adapt to the novelty of climate change? Researchers seeking to answer this question have sent genetically engineered plants to the ISS for exposure to extreme conditions. To report their stress, the plants have learned to glow in the dark.
Gigantic Hurricane Spotted on Saturn
April 29, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a gigantic hurricane swirling inside a mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as "the hexagon" at Saturn's north pole.
Cassini Catches Meteors Hitting Saturn's Rings
April 26, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids crashing into Saturn's rings and breaking into streams of rubble.
See Saturn at its Best and Brightest
April 24, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
Saturn and Earth are having a close encounter. See the ringed planet at its best and brightest on April 28th.
Hubble Sees Comet ISON
April 24, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has just obtained a sneak preview.
Comet ISON Meteor Shower
April 19, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
A new model of the debris flowing from Comet ISON suggests that the sungrazer could dust the Earth with meteoroids in early 2014. Experts discuss the possibilities today's story from Science@NASA.
Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets
April 18, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
A Whiff of Dark Matter on the ISS
April 14, 2013
Science@NASA Headline News — 2013
A particle detector on board the International Space Station has recorded intriguing signs of Dark Matter. Researchers say that a significant advance in cosmology could be in the offing.