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Vote Now! Top Space Stories of the Week - Feb. 5, 2012
Colonies on the moon, fast-spinning stars and an astronaut playing an astronaut are just a few of...
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Best Space Photos of the Week - Feb. 4, 2012
From a stunning image of our marbled earth to city lights from space, it's been a remarkable week...
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Image of the Day
Ring around the galaxy.
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Fireball Over Texas Caught By Police Dash Cam
A squad car from the Little River-Academy Police Department in Texas captured a fireball lighting...
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Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in E...
The close pass of the asteroid Eros this week allows astronomy buffs to measure the size of the s...
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Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passe...
Powered test flights should occur this summer.
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Human Spaceflight
Record-Setting Female Astronaut Shannon Lucid L...
Shannon Lucid is a veteran of five spaceflights, logging more than 223 days in space.
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Damaged Russian Spaceship Forces Big Launch Delay for Next Station Crew
Reports: Russia Delays Launch of Next Space Station Crew
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Private Spaceflight
1st Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station M...
The first test launch of SpaceX's Dragon space capsule to the International Space Station will be no e...
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NASA to Solicit Private Space Taxi Proposals Feb. 7
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Science & Astronomy
Earth From Space: The Secret of NASA's Amazing ...
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite is snapping amazing views of Earth from space, but there's a secret to the ...
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Stunning Photo Shows Growing Antarctic Ice Rift
Hubble Telescope Spies Milky Way Galaxy's Twin
Dizzyingly Fast-Spinning Stars Slow Down by Flying Apart
Search For Life
Newfound Alien Planet is Best Candidate Yet to ...
The planet is located in the "sweet spot" of its parent star's habitable zone.
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Habitable Zones Around Alien Suns May Depend on Chemistry
Second 'Sunken UFO' Claim Doesn't Hold Water
What's Taking E.T. So Long to Find Us?
Skywatching
Star Maps From Mobile App Maker Brings Astronom...
The makers of Starmap are offering users free customizable star maps and other educational tools.
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On Groundhog Day, the Sun Has Last Word on Winter
On the Edge: Skywatchers Snap Photo of Slender 'Little Sombrero' Galaxy
How to See 'Future' Celestial Sights in Pre-Dawn Sky
Tech & Robots
'TinKode' Hacker Suspect Arrested for NASA, Gov...
Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old believed to be TinKode, a hacker who previously compr...
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New Report Pinpoints NASA's 16 Biggest Space Tech Needs
Declassified US Spy Satellites from Cold War Land in Ohio
Teens Put Lego Man in 'Space' (Actually Stratosphere)
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Space Weather: Sunspots, Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
The sun's unceasing activity affects our planet beyond providing obvious light and heat.
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Mars, Fact...
Martian Surface Similar to Earth and Moon
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Vesta Aste...
Vesta is the second largest asteroid in the solar system.
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The Sun: F...
The sun is at the heart of our solar system and is the largest...
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Stars: For...
Stars are giant, luminous spheres of plasma. SPACE.com offers ...
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The sun is at the heart of our solar system and 8 planets orbi...
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Hubble Hit: Spiral Galaxy and the Quasars
The space telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 1073 and three quasars that are right outside its galactic neighborhood. Located in the constellation of Cetus, the galaxy has a bar structur...
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Europe's Space Program Spurring ...
With the new addition, Vega, to the family of r...
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Grail Mission Snaps Far Side of ...
NASA's Grail Mission has delivered its first vi...
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Strange Supernova - Cold Gas Clo...
About 15,000 light years from Earth, star remna...
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Emergency Launch Escape - The Pr...
SpaceX has recently test fired the next generat...
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Remembering Columbia - 'In Their...
The last crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia tal...
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Space Face: Nebula's Stellar Win...
Europe's MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope has return...
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Alien Atoms: First Contact Made ...
Using the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)...
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Bright Planets and Red Giants: F...
Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and several promi...
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