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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