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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