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Equipment failure jeopardizes planet-hunting space telescope mission
The future of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope mission is in jeopardy after a part that helps it point to cosmic targets failed, NASA said Wednesday.
Herschel space telescope ends observations as it runs out of coolant
The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant, European and U.S. officials said.
Drill, baby, drill!
NASA said its unmanned Curiosity rover achieved a first this week, using a drill at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a rock on Mars and collect a sample.
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NASA science balloon sets flight record
NASA says a balloon launched in Antarctica and carrying a scientific experiment has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.
NASA to join in 'dark universe' hunt ... Warning raised for New Zealand volcano ... Insect found to use Milky Way as guide ... Weather can alter climate change beliefs ... Science and Technology news from UPI.
NASA to join in 'dark universe' hunt
NASA says it is joining a European Space Agency mission designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Mars meteorite has significant water
NASA says a small meteorite, possibly the first discovered from the martian surface, contains 10 times more water than meteorites that later originated on Mars.
NASA has announced a multiyear Mars program including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020 to join the Curiosity rover now on the Red Planet.
NASA names mission after Van Allen
NASA says it is renaming a mission to study Earth's radiation belts after James Van Allen, the U.S. astrophysicist who discovered them in 1958.
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Tornado recover efforts underway in Moore, Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin talks to victims from the May 20 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, 2013. The EF-5 tornado cut a path of destruction approximately 17 miles by 1.3 miles wide and left 24 people dead. UPI/J.P. Wilson