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In Canada, scientists have developed a cranberry extract that may actually succeed where traditional antibiotics have failed, by stopping bacterial infections from spreading in the first place.

When America’s first astronauts arrived at NASA Langley Research Center in the spring of 1959, they knew they were about to make history.

The most accurate atomic clock ever flown in space, could forever change the way we conduct deep-space navigation and give new meaning to making time fly.

Innovative and diverse research continues to happen on the first U.S. orbiting laboratory and everything researchers are developing on the International Space Station is building a better tomorrow for humanity.

Boasting an auditorium, restaurant, and decorative water pools, a new facility in West Palm Beach will make use of submarine technology to make a floating plaza for the public.

The NASA/Air Force Research Laboratory on Ascension Island now houses a telescope with a very special mission – to track fast moving orbital space debris and predict the risk it poses to spacecraft, Earth, and the International Space Station.

The year was 1958. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had become the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. And Americans had their eyes on space.

During Curiosity’s four years on Mars, the rover’s Chemistry and Camera instrument, called ChemCam, has inspected more than 1,400 targets with more than 350 thousand total laser shots.

A Cygnus supply ship, filled with rubbish, was maneuvered a safe distance from the International Space Station where it had been docked for almost a month. Then it was ignited and NASA cameras watched it burn.

NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft are exploring the outermost edge of our solar system. And the Hubble Space Telescope is measuring the trek ahead.