Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week – Feb. 2, 2014

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Grey is the New Black Hole: Is Stephen Hawking Right? (Op-Ed)

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Over the past few days, the media has cried out the recent proclamation from Stephen Hawking that black holes, a mystery of both science and science fiction, do not exist.

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Obama Honors Fallen Astronauts of NASA Spaceflight Disasters

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U.S. President Barack Obama honored the Americans who died in the pursuit of space exploration on the X-15, Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

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