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On the heels of MIT's design for the plane of the future, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given a sneak peek into some of the new ideas they have slated for the not-so-distant future.

A former and longtime employee at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has been charged with illegally exporting infrared military technology to South Korea, though he is not accused of taking technology or related materials from the research center, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

2010 has tied 2005 as the warmest year since people have been keeping records, according to data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

President Barack Obama paid tribute on Wednesday to the victims and survivors of a mass shooting in Arizona which killed 6 and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whom the President said opened her eyes for the first time since the shooting.

A dark coronal hole at the Sun center was captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's solar dynamics observatory. As the Sun continues to rotate, the high speed solar wind particles blowing from this hole will likely reach Earth in a few days and may spark some auroral activity.

Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter that produced above thunderstorms on Earth, something never seen before.

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the center of a tiny low-mass galaxy, suggesting the formation of supermassive black holes may precede the growth of galaxies.

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-10b, the smallest planet outside our solar system and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth but more hotter than molten iron.

The roll-out of Elektra One with running engine first took place on November 22, 2010 at the Rotortec Company in Germany. This was followed by successful static tests on December 22 for the German Ultralight Certification.

Ocean warming of up to 5 degree Celsius is likely to trigger widespread collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3000 as well as lift sea levels by 4 meters (13 feet), says a study.

A team of scientists at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have found that the moon has a core similar to Earth's.

Space shuttle Discovery's final mission is delayed again due to additional small cracks on the shuttle's tank. The mission is now off until late February.

Roland Emmerich’s directed ‘2012’ movie which depicted that the world will end by that year is included in the NASA’s silly list of science fiction films.

Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery of why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. The answer lies in fountains of plasma called spicules that shoot up from the Sun's surface.

Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends in Mars' southern hemisphere in mid-March.

Moon takes a bite out of the Sun, as the colloquial saying goes, during the start of the year 2011. This year's first partial solar eclipse will be seen on Tuesday, in view from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia.

The XB-70 Valkyrie was much more than an exhibit at the National Museum of the US Air Force, Ohio. It was a unique concept turned to realty, pushing all the horizons of aeronautical engineering.

The recent snowstorms in the northeastern U.S. and a similar blizzard last year might make some doubt the climate is changing. The short answer is: no, and in fact some of the people who study climate predicted wetter winters - and more snow, at least for a while.

A sum up of top events that shaped United States in past decade (2000-2010). Part 2 covers 2004 to 2008 on weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, Bush second term, Hurricane Katrina, Housing bubble burst, and Barack Obama as the first Black president.

For the first time ever, NASA's Twitter followers are being invited to the agency's Ames Research Center in California on February 11 to get an insider's look at its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft.

NASA awarded a 10-year information technology (IT) outsourcing contract to a unit of Hewlett Packard.