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Are Pluto and Eris Twins?
[/caption] Back a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article highlighting the debate between scientists on which dwarf planet…
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SpaceX Completes Crucial Milestone Toward Launching Astronauts
[/caption] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is now one more step closer to sending astronauts to orbit. The commercial space firm…
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghou-1 Arrive at Baikonur Launch Site to tight Mars Deadline
[/caption] Barely in the nick of time, Russia’s groundbreaking Phobos-Grunt interplanetary spacecraft to Mars finally arrived on Monday (Oct. 17)…
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NASA Strengthens Virgin Galactic Ties With New Contract
[/caption] NASA has, on a number of occasions tapped the NewSpace firm Virgin Galactic to help the space agency accomplish…
Best-Ever Topographic Map of Earth from NASA and Japan
[/caption]NASA and Japan recently announced a new and improved digital topographic map of Earth, which was produced with detailed measurements…
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Crewed Variant of X-37 Space Plane Proposed
[/caption] As reported online at Space.com, the Boeing Company is already working on the CST-100 space taxi as a means…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
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Behind the Scenes: Curiosity’s Rocket Prepared at Vertical Integration Facility
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- One of the more dramatic buildings operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA) at Kennedy Space…
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Assembling Curiosity’s Rocket to Mars
[/caption] Assembly of the powerful Atlas V booster that will rocket NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover to Mars is…
Buried Treasure: Astronomers Find Exoplanets Hidden in Old Hubble Data
[/caption] Over the past 21 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has gathered boatloads of data, with the Hubble archive center…