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NASA: Vitamin B3 Might Have Been Made in Space, Delivered by...
Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers. The...
Earth nearly got fried by Sun discharge in July 2012
Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012. According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession...
New Satellite Movie Shows Massive Eastern U.S. Cool Down
Three days of satellite imagery from NOAA's GOES-East satellite were compiled into an animation that showed the progression of the storm system that drastically...
NASA Study Points to Infrared-Herring in Apparent Amazon Green-Up
For the past eight years, scientists have been working to make sense of why some satellite data seemed to show the Amazon rain forest...
New Technique Could Be Used to Search Space Dust for Life’s...
While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by...
What your company can learn from NASA’s tragedies
BYU business professor Peter Madsen has been researching NASA’s safety climate ever since the Columbia shuttle broke apart upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on Feb....
NASA-Sponsored ‘Disk Detective’ Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries
NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission...
Greenland ice sheet stores liquid water year-round
National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a previously unknown aquifer in the Greenland ice sheet that holds liquid water...
Laser Demonstration Reveals Bright Future for Space Communication
The completion of the 30-day Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration or LLCD mission has revealed that the possibility of expanding broadband capabilities in space using...
NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S....
