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An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. […]

Reporters are invited to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Wednesday, Nov. 9 to view a test firing of the J-2X rocket engine, a key component of NASA's Space Launch System, which will carry the Orion spacecraft, its crew, cargo, equipment and science experiments beyond Earth orbit. […]

NASA Announces New Advisory Council Chairman […]

A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface. […]

To highlight International Education Week (IEW), NASA and the U.S. Department of Education will host a live, long-distance call for students with International Space Station resident and Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum. […]

Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot, pauses near a tool carrier during the Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon's surface. Commander Charles Conrad, Jr., who took the black-and-white photo, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. Image Credit: NASA […]

FIRST  ‘Green’ a Modern Day Twist on Team Fundraising Methods 2nd generation FIRST® Green e-watt saver LED light bulbs now available to consumers MANCHESTER, N.H., November 2, 2011—FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and partici […]

This image from early November 2011 shows a dust plume blowing off the coast of southern Alaska. […]

After five months of continuous eruption, the area surrounding Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcano is covered with ash. […]

Acquired in November 2011 and November 2008, these images compare conditions in Thailand and Cambodia. Heavy monsoon rains flooded the region in 2011. […]

The site of a volcano isn't the first place one might think of to study cooperation. But neuroscientist Eric Fortune of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues went to the slopes of Antisana volcano in Ecuador to study cooperation as it plays out with a very special songbird, the plain-tailed wren. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the […]