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Successful HotFire Test Sets SpaceX on Course for Historic Relaunch of 1st ‘Flight-Proven’ Rocket

SPACE VIEW PARK/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This afternoons (Mar. 27) successful hotfire test of a recycled Falcon 9 booster…

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Messier 38 – The Starfish Cluster

Located in the direction of the northern Auriga constellation, some light 4,200 years from Earth, is the open star cluster…

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NASA Test Fires New Engine Controlling ‘Brain’ for First SLS MegaRocket Mission

Engineers carried out a critical hot fire engine test firing with the first new engine controlling ‘brain’ that will command…

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See Mercury At Dusk, New Comet Lovejoy At Dawn

There are so many cool astronomical sights to see in late March including Mercury and a brand new comet!

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What About a Mission to Titan?

Europa is fine and all, but where we really need to go is Saturn's moon Titan. Let's look at some…

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Juno’s Monday Jupiter Flyby Promises New Batch of Images & Science

Juno will perform its 5th flyby of Jupiter, Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT. Prepare yourself for some fantastic…

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Nighttime Delta IV Blastoff Powers Military Comsat to Orbit for U.S. Allies: Photo/Video Gallery

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - The second round of March Launch Madness continued with the thunderous nighttime blastoff…

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Watch Stars Orbit The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Watch several dozen stars in the center of our galaxy circle a massive, black "nothing."

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German ‘Largest Artificial Sun’ To Generate Climate Friendly Fuel

Synlight, the world's largest artificial Sun, will help German researchers extract hydrogen fuel from water using solar energy.

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Curiosity Captures Gravity Wave Shaped Clouds On Mars

Images presented at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week showed the first indication of gravity waves around…

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