Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity on a Zero Gravity Corp. to follow students sparking weightless fires for science. Follow her on Twitter for her latest project.
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With new data from the European Gaia spacecraft, astronomers can now explore 1.8 billion cosmic objects in unparalleled detail.

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European and Russian space leaders have decided to postpone the launch of the ExoMars rover until 2022 due to issues with its parachutes and electronic equipment.

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Hera would observe the effects of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test.

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A mock moon habitat trial is underway near the Matterhorn.

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The first findings from the ExoMars orbiter show no signs of methane in Mars' atmosphere.

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One of the worst cyclones to hit southern Africa left flooding that could be seen from space.

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For the first time, an expedition climbed Fuji Dome in the interior of East Antarctica using a wind-blown vehicle.

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The European MASCOT lander bounced down to the rocky surface of an asteroid last week.

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The shock waves from Allied bombing raids during World War II briefly weakened the ionosphere.

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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps still doesn't know why she was removed from her first assignment to go to space.

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Nearly 1.7 billion stars have been plotted in unprecedented detail with today's (April 25) highly anticipated release of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.

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A new study investigates the dark zone that seems to be getting bigger on the western edge of the ice sheet.

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Lettuce, cucumbers and radishes are among the first plants to be collected from the greenhouse.

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The monster jet, bankrolled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is designed to bring satellites into orbit.

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Planetary scientists have found that a warming Earth is speeding up storms.

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Three scientists who were integral in detecting these so-called gravitational waves for the first time were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics this morning (Oct. 3).

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Former NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, who was in space on Sept. 11, 2001, reflects on witnessing the attacks from orbit years later.

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The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out is probably one of most ubiquitous (and memorable) photos of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

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Space archaeologists want to understand the "microsociety" of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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Some scientists believe Pluto's red "whale"-shaped region is the mark of a giant impact — the same one that produced Pluto's huge moon Charon.

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A new weather satellite promises to deliver unprecedented data on Earth's lightning, and it has already captured its first spectacular images of storms from space.

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Planetary scientists gathered in Berlin Monday (Nov. 14) in an effort to build support for a NASA-European Space Agency asteroid-deflection mission called AIDA.
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