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The Best Moments From Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Jump
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner captivated the world yesterday when he leapt 24 miles to Earth becoming the first man to break the speed of sound in a free fall. If you missed the historic...
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Felix Baumgartner's Future Plans Are A Far Cry From Space Jumping
How do you top floating 24 miles above Earth, jumping, and then smashing through the sound barrier by hitting speeds over 800 mph? Well, you don't. Perhaps that's why Austrian daredevil Felix...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Journey Was A Nightmare
Fortunately the space shuttle Endeavour didn't have any pressing space launches to make when it rolled into the California Science Center Sunday afternoon — 16 hours late. The retired orbiter left...
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Stunning Images Of The Solar System From The Cassini Spacecraft
Exactly 15 years ago, on October 15, 1997, NASA's Cassini spacecraft lifted off from Earth and left our atmosphere. Since that day the space probe has traveled more than 3.8 billion miles and sent...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Closest Star To Earth, Alpha Centauri
Researchers announced today that they've discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. The planet is too close to the sun to have liquid water, and therefore...
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Felix Baumgartner's Most Terrifying Jumps Ever
Felix Baumgartner just broke the speed of sound in an unprecedented free fall from the stratosphere. But the Austrian thrill-seeker has dazzled the world with mind-boggling leaps many, many times...
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New Earth-Sized Planet Is The Closest Ever Found To Earth
Researchers announced today that they've discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star system Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor. They found the planet, which is barely bigger than...
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Mystery Over Shiny Particles On Mars Gets More Exciting
NASA's Curiosity rover had been on Mars 61 days when she gathered her first scoop of soil. Before the one-ton robot could finish sifting through her first small bucket of dust, however, all the...
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Fantastic GIF Shows Space Shuttle Wing Almost Colliding With A Tree
The Space Shuttle Endeavour made its way through the cramped streets of Los Angeles over the weekend in a 12-mile journey that turned out to be quite a headache. The shuttle arrived at its final...
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Explosions And Streaks Of Light Surprised Parts Of California Last Night
Loud booms and bright streaks of light surprised hundreds of folks in California's Bay Area Wednesday night, ABC News reports. No, this wasn't the result of a natural disaster. Earth is actually...
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NASA: We Still Don't Know What Those Shiny Particles On Mars Are, But They're...
NASA confirmed this afternoon that some bright particles found in a hole dug by the Curiosity's scooper are actually from Mars and not debris from the rover. This is the second round of shiny...
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Saturn's Oddball Moons Were Created In A Violent Collision
Saturn's icy medium-size moons were born when a few much bigger satellites collided to form the ringed planet's huge moon Titan, a new study suggests. The Saturn system started out with a family of...
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The Orionid Meteor Shower Is Coming—Expect To See Explosions
Set your alarm to go off early Sunday morning. That's when the Orionid meteor shower will put on its best display, the good folks at NASA say. The Orionid meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through...
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Cool Pictures Of The Orionid Meteor Shower
The Orionid meteor shower peaked on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 21 this year. The meteors come from bits of debris left behind by Halley's Comet when it last visited Earth in 1986. When pieces of...
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Meteorite Falls On A Woman's Home
Last week, an exploding fireball surprised hundreds of residents in California's Bay Area. On the same night, a very tiny piece of that fireball allegedly struck the roof of a woman's home in Novato,...
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It's A Race Against Time To Determine If Mars Has Frost
The Mars Curiosity rover has spent the last two weeks scooping, shaking and sampling its first taste of Mars dirt at a patch of windblown sand called "Rocknest." The purpose of all this digging and...
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Photograph Captures The Violent Death Of A Star
The Helix Nebula is a dying star that sits 650 light years away. When a star dies it sheds its outer layers, leaving behind a hot core that eventually contracts to form a white dwarf star. Two NASA...
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Amazing New Image Zooms In On The Center Of Our Milky Way Galaxy
A team of scientists created one of the largest pictures of the center of our galaxy, the Milk Way. A (very) close look at the image reveals a total of 84 million stars, about 10 times more than seen...
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The Meteorite That Hit A Woman's Home Last Week Is Not A Meteorite
Everyone makes mistakes — even scientists. Earlier this week, a tiny piece of rock that struck a woman's home in California was thought to come from a meteor. Turns out, the two-inch object was just a...
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Endeavour Is Homeless Until Its New Owners Raise $100 Million
After one cross-country plane ride, four weeks in a temporary hangar, and a nightmarish 12-mile, 3-day journey through the city streets of Los Angeles, the Space Shuttle Endeavour finally made it to...
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