NASA's Curiosity Rover Drills Into 2nd Mars Rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has broken out its trusty drill again, pulling samples from deep within a Red Planet rock for the second time ever. Full story
Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday. Full story
Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks US Record for Off-Planet Driving
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy. Full story
Private spaceship tests underway in Va, Calif
A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station is having elements of its spacecraft undergo landing-related tests at NASA facilities in Virginia and California. Full story
Can NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Mission Be Saved?
There's a chance that NASA's Kepler space telescope can recover from the malfunction that has halted its wildly successful search for alien planets, mission team members say. Full story
NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak
An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. Full story
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Ariel Castro did father the child of one of his kidnapping victims, NASA reports trouble at the International Space Station and Randy Jackson is leaving American Idol.
Time-lapse captures 3 years of solar activity
Video released by NASA shows three years of images of the sun. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Solar flare disrupts radio communications
A mid-level solar flare that NASA is calling the sun's "spring fling" was strong enough to temporarily silence radios on Earth. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Life on Mars? Rover shows it was possible
According to NASA, powder from a rock found on Mars indicates the Red Planet may have been able to support microbes billions of years ago. NBC’s Katie Wall reports.
Meteor crash, near-miss by an asteroid raise concerns
The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd takes a “deep dive” look into the meteor that hit Russia and why NASA did not have earlier notice of it’s coming. Rep. Rush Holt explains NASA’s tracking system and discusses budget cuts to NASA and the department’s future.
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