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China's Chang'e 4 Spacecraft Enters Lunar Orbit Ahead of 1st-Ever Far Side Landing
December 12, 2018 | ArticleChina's Chang'e 4 lander and rover spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit Wednesday (Dec. 12) following a four-and-a-half-day flight to the moon.
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A Gift from the Cosmos: Watch Comet 46P/Wirtanen's Holiday Visit Live Online
December 12, 2018 | ArticleIf holiday travel seems daunting, keep in mind that Comet 46P/Wirtanen traveled all the way from Jupiter's orbit to visit this season.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Prepares for New Year's Eve Date with Asteroid Bennu
December 12, 2018 | Article2018 has been quite a year for spaceflight, but it's not over yet, and the OSIRIS-REx mission has one more major task to accomplish before the ball drops: slipping into orbit around the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
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NASA's New Mars Lander Takes 1st Selfie, Scopes Out Workspace
December 12, 2018 | ArticleNASA's InSight lander has snapped its first selfie on the Red Planet and photographed the patch of Martian ground that will serve as the mission's primary workspace.
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Corporate Power and Greed Reign Supreme in 'Mars' Episode 5
December 12, 2018 | ArticleYesterday (Dec. 10), National Geographic's "Mars" Season 2 returned with a heart-pounding fifth episode.
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Scientists Visualize the Sun's Mysteries Using 400 Years of Solar Observations
December 12, 2018 | ArticleIn an effort to better grasp the sun's past, present and future, Colombian and Spanish researchers made visualizations that meld the last 400 years of recorded solar observations.
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Apollo Conspiracy? NASA Invites Skeptic Steph Curry to See Moon-Landing Evidence
December 12, 2018 | ArticleNASA wants to show NBA superstar Steph Curry some rock-solid evidence that people have indeed been to the moon.
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Cosmonauts on Spacewalk Cut Into Soyuz Spacecraft to Inspect Patched Hole
December 11, 2018 | ArticleTwo Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station today (Dec. 11) to cut into a Soyuz spacecraft and inspect the source of a pressurization leak that briefly plagued the orbiting outpost.
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'Spirit of Apollo': Watch Apollo 8 50th-Anniversary Webcast Tonight
December 11, 2018 | ArticleThe Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of NASA's epic Apollo 8 moon mission tonight (Dec. 11), and you can watch the event live.
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Edmond Halley: An Extraordinary Scientist and the Second Astronomer Royal
December 11, 2018 | ReferenceEdmond Halley is best remembered for predicting the orbit of the comet that was later named after him. Besides astronomy, he also made significant discoveries in the fields of geophysics, mathematics, meteorology and physics.
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