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The Naval Research Laboratory's Environmental Branch planted 100 seedlings on the NRL Chesapeake Bay Detachment facility. These trees, planted arou...

Comet Lovejoy races through a several-million degree solar corona as it passes the Sun on December 15th, 2011 (EST). The comet defied the expectati...

Here we see Comet SWAN fly into the solar atmosphere and evaporate completely. Note two things:

1) The comet did not hit the Sun. Assuming it survi...

Here's comet SWAN in SOHO/LASCO C3 images. Note the large coronal mass ejection half-way through the movie that floods the image with high-energy p...

[EDIT: Shamefully, I accidentally labelled this as a supernova initially. I hold my hands up to my mistake! It is NOT a supernova -- there's a diff...

Jupiter and its moons Callisto and Ganymede seen in the USNRL's LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite. Note that the horizontal "wings" ca...

Even in peacetime, fires represent one of the greatest risks to the U.S. Naval Fleet.

To this end, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), with supp...

The Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory are testing zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells. In this video, Dr. Karen Swider-Lyons...

Darwin Motorcycles motorcycle shop crafts and hand builds a custom motorcycle in honor of the United States Navy. Courtesy Video, Defense Media Act...

Scientists in the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division have discovered a previously unreported solar feature -- Coronal Cells -- wher...

Dr. Bradley Ringeisen, head of the Bioenergy & Biofabrication Section at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), discusses his recently published...

A group of researchers at the Computational Multiphysics Systems Laboratory of the Center of Computational Materials Science in the Materials Scien...

Located on Maryland's Western Shore, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Chesapeake Bay Detachment, a 168-acre facility used for research and field...

The Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory honor Dr. George Carruthers whose groundbreaking work in far ultraviolet astronomy l...

Office of Naval Research exhibit on Pier 86 during Fleet Week New York 2012

TimeLapse of the Office of Naval Research-sponsored tactical satellite IV (TacSat-4) launch from the Alaskan Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch ...

A Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientist shows a magic trick to a Mobile-Dextrous-Social Robot, demonstrating the robot's use and interpretation...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of sc...

Episode 2 of Robotic Secrets Revealed demonstrates research on robot perception (including object recognition and multi-modal person identification...

Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), stationed at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., is the U.S. Navy's sole science & technology ...

In this time-lapse video, the Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is encapsulated inside the fairing (nose cone) of an Orb...