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3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real

A 60,000-mile-high wave of super-hot plasma blazing across the sun’s surface at 560,000 mph? Yep.

“Now we know. Solar tsunamis are real,” said John Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in a press release Tuesday.

NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observa...

NASA Selects Engineering Evaluation and Test Contractor

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has selected the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif., for the Specialized Engineering Evaluation and Test Services contract. ...

Warped Debris Disks Around Stars Are 'Blowin' In The Wind'

The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., finds that a star's motion through interstellar gas can account for many of th...

Nasa tapes over original moon walk footage

• Moon walk video restored despite the loss of original footage• Loss of tapes went unnoticed for 35 yearsIt was mankind's crowning achievement, with millions around the world glued to their television sets as astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the surface of the moon 40 years a...