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Star Factory Blazes Bright in Stunning New Photo
The image shows the star-forming region Cygnus-X.
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Spacecraft Repair Droids Could Give Satellites Longer Lives
ViviSat is developing a spacecraft to extend the lives of satellites in orbit.
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Get in the test chamber.
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Mock Mars Rover Takes Desert Test Drive
The "Scarecrow" test rover went out to California's Mojave Desert last week.
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Antarctica from Above: Watch the Birth of an Iceberg
NASA scientists captured stunning footage during flights over the ice.
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Blast Off! Expedition 31 Crew On Way To Space Station | Video
Flight Engineers Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are en route to the International Sp...
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Human Spaceflight
New Astronaut Crew Launches Toward Space Station
The three astronauts are slated to arrive at the orbiting lab early Thursday.
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Private Spaceflight
SpaceX's Private Launch to Space Station: How t...
SpaceX's Dragon space capsule is slated to launch into orbit on May 19 at 4:55 a.m. EDT.
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Science & Astronomy
Bus-Size Asteroid Zips Close By Earth
Asteroid 2012 JU never posed any threat, NASA says.
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Sun-Watching Space Telescope Bounces Back From Glitch
Meteorites From Big Fireball Spark Space Age 'Gold Rush'
NASA's Budget Woes Require Tough Space Tech Balancing Act
Search For Life
Space Probe Fleet Idea Would Search for Mars Life
The BOLD mission would cost $300 million or less, researchers say.
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Ancient Mars Rocks Could Have Sheltered Life, Study Suggests
Europe to Explore Jupiter's Icy Moons with JUICE Spacecraft
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Skywatching
Orion StarBlast 6i IntelliScope Review | Find B...
See what makes the Orion StarBlast 6i IntelliScope the best beginner telescope at SPACE.com.
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2,000 Apply for Jobs Building Asteroid-Mining R...
More than 2,000 people have applied for jobs with Planetary Resources, officials said.
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Lunar Eclipses: What is a Total Lunar Eclipse & When is the Next One?
Lunar eclipses occur when Earth's shadow blocks the sun. There are three types: The most dramatic is a total lunar eclipse. Find out when is the next one.
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In the 1500s, when virtually everyone believed Earth was the c...
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Galaxies are composed of stars, dust, and dark matter, all hel...
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Edwin Powe...
Often lauded as the father of modern cosmology, Edwin Powell H...
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The Androm...
The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant object in the sky tha...
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Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a number of inventions...
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Strange Galaxy - Heart of the Centaur Revealed ...
The odd elliptical galaxy, Centaurus A (NGC 5128) has an active supermassive black hole at its core. Europe's MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in Chile captured these images.
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Birth of a Giant Iceberg – Unpre...
An enormous plain of Antarctic ice is splitting...
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Saturn's Oddball Moon Phoebe See...
Known for its backwards orbit around Saturn and...
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The Enterprise was "demated" from atop the Shut...
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Tractor-Trailer-Sized Asteroid Z...
A 42 foot space rock (asteroid 2012 JU) flew ab...
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Meteorite Fragments Searched For...
NASA Ames, the SETI institute and other organiz...
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This ancient battered asteroid is an analog of ...
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RIP Envisat - 10 Years of Critic...
Europe's bus-sized Envisat satellite was launch...
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