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The longest-operating Earth observing satellite is ending its mission after nearly 29 years, more than 150,000 orbits and 2.5 million images. 
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A protein machine unwinds DNA molecules... This crescent-shaped protein complex (yellow in the image) wraps around and bends DNA (the red and blue complex) to help unwind it.
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One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera.
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Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a human macrophage on the surface of an alveolus. Found mainly in the liver and lymph nodes, macrophages are a part of the immune system.
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Astronomy | Helix Nebula | About 700 light years away sits the expanding death cry of a star: the Helix Nebula, a four-light-year wide gas cloud blasted out when a star that was once like...
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An eruption and an apparent new island appeared in the Red Sea in December 2011.
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The Moon and the International Space Station appear as neighbors, though they are 384,400 kilometers miles apart.
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On Wednesday, Jan. 18, astronomers, physicists and scientists from related fields will convene in Tucson, Ariz. from across the world to discuss an endeavor that only a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing less than outrageous.
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We can’t see it, we can’t feel it, we can’t even interact with it… but dark matter may very well be one of the most fundamental physical components of our Universe.
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International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
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Looking down from 512 miles, the newly launched NPP satellite offers up its first gap-free view of Earth.
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Here you have it. It's not the super-HD panoramic image that everyone is eagerly waiting for, but this is the first high(ish) resolution image of the 3-mile-high Aeolis Mons, commonly known as Mount Sharp.
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Abell 39, about 7000 light years away, is a ghostly remnant of a Sun-like star and one of the largest existing spheres in the Milky Way.
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The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle delivered supplies to the Space Station.
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NASA released this incredible new high-res image of the Earth, taken by the recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP.
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The search for survivors still goes on near the Tuscan island of Giglio, where the Costa Concordia hit rocks and listed helplessly to the side.
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Earth observation satellites have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time in a German Aerospace Center (DLR) project designed to create the world’s first single-source, high-precision, 3D digital-elevation model of...
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An image of capillary, just wide enough for one red blood cell (erythrocyte) to squeeze through
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The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in upper left of this image of the moon in the early evening Jan. 4 in the skies over the Houston area flying at an altitude of 390.8 kilometers (242.8 miles).
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The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the holiday season in full swing, a new image from an assembly of telescopes has revealed an unusual cosmic ornament.
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