Lunacy Rules at First Robotics Competition

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Sixty-one teams from Southern California, Arizona, Brazil and Chile faced off in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 13 and 14.

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Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train
Wreck

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A new image from Spitzer offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun.

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Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon
After All

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Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

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Five Things About Kepler

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Here are some quick facts about the Kepler mission, scheduled to launch March 6, 2009.

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Cassini Swaps Thrusters

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Early this morning the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday.

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Asteroid to Fly By Earth Wednesday

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A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18).

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Watching Space Rocks: Live Chat With NASA's
Asteroid Trackers

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A live videocast and chat from JPL offers a unique opportunity for viewers to ask questions of scientists with NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office about how NASA discovers and tracks asteroids.

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Online Poll for NASA's Mars Rover Naming Contest
Opens March 23

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NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite.

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One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other
Takes a New Route

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On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity's long-term destination for six months.

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NASA Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt

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Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan.

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