NASA's MAVEN spacecraft captured the chaotic rendezvous between Mars and comet Siding Spring in 2014.
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The Insight Mars lander has been saved from mission termination and will live to launch another day two years from now, NASA managers just announced following a thorough three month investigation into the causes of the last moment snafu involving the failure of its French-built seismometer science instrument that last December forced the agency to cancel its planned liftoff this month.
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Hooray for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! Ten years of ground-breaking science (and eye candy.)
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The first flight test for the RS-25 rocket engine, which will power NASA's Space Launch System, is set for March 10th.
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Martian colonists will need to grow their own food, and researchers in Netherlands are trying to understand how suitable Martian soil will be.
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According to new research by an international team of scientists, early galaxies were characterized by mergers (aka. "hookups")
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Reader images for today's amazing total solar eclipse from across the Pacific: the only total solar eclipse in 2016, and the last one prior to the return of totality to the United States on August 21st, 2017.
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China's planned space telescope will dock with its space station for repairs and servicing.
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Scientists will drill down into the site of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site to understand how life on Earth recovered.
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Given its similarities to Earth, there are many who believe we should terraform Venus, making it live up to its nickname "Earth's Sister"
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Our complete guide to the only total solar eclipse for 2016. With maps, webcasts, predictions and more.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - SpaceX's Falcon 9 finally put on a dazzling sky show after the commercial booster at last took flight on the fifth launch attempt, shortly after sunset on Friday, March 4, 2014.
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A group of Russian engineering students hope to use crowdfunding to build and launch what may be the brightest satellite in the sky.
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Final launch preparations are now in full swing for the ambitious European/Russian ExoMars 2016 spacecraft which has been encapsulated inside its payload launcher fairing and is slated to blast off for the Red Planet one week from now on March 14, 2016 from Kazakhstan.
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Using Hubble, an international team of astronomers just observed the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe, shattering the previous distance record
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New images from NASA's New Horizons probe show possible clouds drifting lazily over Pluto's chill landscape.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - After enduring four launch scrubs caused by poor weather, misguided boaters, high level winds and propellant fueling problems, SpaceX put on a stunning sky show with tonight's sunset blastoff of their private Falcon 9 rocket boosting the high powered SES-9 commercial telecommunications satellite to orbit.
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Aquarius ("The Water Carrier") stretches from the celestial equator to the southern hemisphere, and is one of the most-recognized of the 88 constellations.
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JJ Abrams new 9-part web documentary will chronicle teams competing for Google's Lunar-X Prize.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Alas SpaceX is now targeting Friday March 4 for the 5th attempt to launch their upgraded Falcon 9 carrying the powerful SES-9 commercial telecommunications satellite, following another pair of launch scrubs earlier this week due to errant boats and strong winds aloft.
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A team of scientists from CSIRO and McGill have achieved an first by being able to pinpoint the source of fast radio bursts, which have left the astronomical community baffled
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Ancient volcanic activity on a massive scale helped make Mars what it is today.
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Space is mostly vast and empty. So whenever we notice something like ripples on a lake of methane, on the frozen moon of a gas giant, we take notice.
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No lander has survived for even 2 hours on Venus. But the Venus Land Sail should last 50 days.
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At a recent symposium in the Netherlands, representatives from the European Space Agency discussed plans to build a village on the Moon!
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian cohort Mikhail Kornienko successful returned to Earth late Tuesday night (March 1), after spending nearly a year in space aboard the space station on a mission to gauge the limits of human endurance in microgravity and blaze a path forward to eventual human expeditions to the Red Planet.
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After 340 placid days in space, the return to Earth will be punctuated by a 25 minute free-fall, extreme heat, deployment of a drogue chute, and the firing of rockets.
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Future supersonic passenger aircraft could be quieter, greener, and cheaper to operate if NASA's new X-Plane program gets off the ground.
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Get ready for Jupiter's opposition for the year, with our complete guide to observing the largest planet in 2016.
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A new study produced by researchers from the University of Innsbruck proposes that black holes might be the reason for the Universe's "missing matter"
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Following a pair of back to back launch scrubs this week on Wednesday and Thursday due to rocket fueling issues with the liquid oxygen propellant, SpaceX has reset the blast off of their upgraded Falcon 9 rocket - carrying the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite - to coincidentally coincide with a serene sunset on Sunday, Feb. 28.
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By measuring a fast radio burst (FRB) coming from space, a team of CSIRO scientists claims to have accounted for the "missing matter" of the Universe
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We turn our gaze away from Pluto's "heart" to explore the ancient ice canyons of its north polar region.
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With the recent milestone achieved by the New Horizons mission, many are contemplating what our next space exploration goal should be
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US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.
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Now that Advanced LIGO has made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, what does the future of gravitational wave astronomy hold in store?
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Pluto has been explored, and now the USPS has released new stamps to celebrate this accomplishment. And that's not all, more planets, the Moon and Star Trek?
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