Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced they are joining forces to develop and launch the world's first commercial space habitat to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) by 2020 - potentially as a huge and revolutionary new addition to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Since 2013, the NEOWISE mission has surveyed more than 19,000 asteroids and comets and discovered 72 new Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
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Stephen Hawking supports a plan to send tiny nano-spacecraft to the Centauri system within a generation.
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Air pollution is a major issue facing us Earthlings, and knowing its causes (both natural and man-made) is a key part in addressing it
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On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.
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A more accurate measurement of standard candles has thrown a wrench into our standard model of cosmology.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 that triumphantly accomplished history's first upright landing of the spent first stage of a rocket on a barge at sea - after launching a critical cargo payload to orbit for NASA - sailed back into port at Cape Canaveral overnight in the wee hours of this morning, April 12, standing tall.
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One of the best dusk apparitions of the planet Mercury occurs this weekend... this event also sets us up for a very special event next month: a transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun.
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The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so it always shows us the same face. But the Earth is slowing down so that it'll eventually lock to the Moon as well. What are the forces involved and when will this happen?
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A SpaceX commercial cargo freighter jam packed with more than three and a half tons of research experiments, essential crew supplies and a new experimental inflatable habitat reached the International Space Station (ISS) and the gleeful multinational crew of six astronauts and cosmonauts on Sunday, April 10.
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A massive sunspot emerged this past weekend, reversing the downward trend for solar cycle #24... for now.
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New research has shed light on what the maximum amount of mass a neutron star can achieve before it collapses into a black hole
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All around, today, April 8, was a great day for the future of space exploration. SpaceX successfully restarted their critical cargo flights for NASA to stock the International Space Station (ISS) with essential supplies and groundbreaking science experiments, while the innovative firm also successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on a barge at sea.
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Earlier today, private aerospace company SpaceX achieved a major milestone by successfully landing a Falcon 9 rocket at sea
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Water ice in a disk surrounding a star might seem out of place, but the ice might be essential to the formation of gaseous planets.
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The Electron Cloud Model was of the greatest contributions of the 20th century, leading to a revolution in physics and quantum theory
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The SpaceX Dragon is set for its 'Return to Flight' mission on Friday, April 8, packed with nearly 7000 pounds (3100 kg) of critical cargo and research experiments bound for the six-man crew working aboard the International Space Station.
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A supermassive black hole of 17 billion solar masses has been found in an isolated region of space. How did such a large object form in a relatively sparse area?
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Venus and Earth share many characteristics, being terrestrial planets, but are also significantly different. Here's how and where they differ...
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The Moon occults the bright star Aldebaran on the evening of April 10th for North America, and, for a lucky few a few days earlier, asteroid 4 Vesta as well.
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Five time space shuttle astronaut and current NASA science chief John Grunsfeld - best known as the 'Hubble Hugger' for three critical and dramatic servicing and upgrade missions to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope - his decided to retire from the space agency he faithfully served since being selected as an astronaut in 1992.
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New Horizons collected 3 years of data during it's mission to Pluto and beyond, and that data is telling us a lot about the solar wind.
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Small perturbations in the orbit of the Cassini probe provide further evidence for the existence of Planet Nine.
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We're focused on Mars and Pluto, but what about Jupiter? Doesn't the biggest planet in the Solar System deserve a little love? How long does it take spacecraft to reach Jupiter?
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Using data provided by NASA's GRAIL mission, researchers from Purdue University have found more evidence of buried lava tubes on the Moon
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It's time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in a new high resolution stereo image of Pluto - King of the Kuiper Belt! - taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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Researchers from York University explain how old data from the Huygen's probe has confirmed that methane fog exists on Titan's south pole
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Located in the equatorial constellation Ophiuchus, M10 is one of the brighter globular clusters in the night sky, and the brightest in this constellation
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Women are more susceptible to harmful changes in their microbiome during space travel. Understanding those changes will allow female astronauts to join their male counterparts on long duration space voyages.
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Some of the more interesting characteristics of Jupiter are not generally known. Here are ten particularly interesting facts about this gas giant
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A "beautiful dust devil" was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA's long lived Opportunity rover as she is simultaneously exploring water altered rock outcrops at the steepest slopes ever targeted during her 13 year long expedition across the Martian surface. Opportunity is searching for minerals formed in ancient flows of water that will provide critical insight into establishing whether life ever existed on the fourth rock from the sun.
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Two researchers believe that the hypothetical "Planet Nine" may be responsible for cyclic extinctions seen in the biological record.
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In ancient times, astronomers and philosophers thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe. We know that's wrong, but is there anything special about where we live?
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Powerful arrays of lasers could hide our presence from the prying eyes of aliens.
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Astronomers combing through data from the ESA's XMM Newton telescope have found the Andromeda Galaxy's first spinning neutron star.
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ALMA, a network of radio telescopes, creates the most detailed images ever of a solar system forming around a nearby star.
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An unmanned Russian space freighter hauling fresh fruit and over three tons of food, water, supplies and science experiments blasted off today, Thursday, March 31, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, commencing a two-day orbital trek to the six person crew living aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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Given its proximity to Earth and our history of exploring it, colonizing and terraforming the Moon could be much easier than other Solar bodies
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Modernization of NASA's launch infrastructure facilities at the Kennedy Space Center supporting the new SLS/Orion architecture required to send astronauts on a Journey to Mars in the 2030s, has passed a comprehensive series of key hardware reviews, NASA announced, paving the path towards full scale development and the inaugural liftoff by late 2018.
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Despite NASA's proposed mission to Mars in the 2030s, two NASA scientists recently indicated that a permanent colony is still a long ways away
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The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an inflatable space habitat, will be launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon then attached to the ISS for a 2-year study.
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