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Curiosity Spent The Holidays At 'Grandma's House'
NASA's Curiosity rover worked through the holiday season on Mars by taking a close look at an intriguing bit of Martian terrain, a region scientists have lovingly nicknamed "Grandma's House."The...
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How Humans Will Change On Ultra-Long Space Voyages
In the Disney film "Wall-E," a colony of humans becomes an obese population after hundreds of years locked inside a spaceship.A lack of activity and an abundance of food left the starship denizens with...
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Magical Pictures Of Earth And Space From 2012
It's time for another countdown.NASA's compiled 25 indelible images from 2012 in a Flickr gallery. Enjoy! An extremely long solar filament shoots out from the sun on Aug. 31, 2012. The coronal mass...
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Neil Armstrong Lied About His 'One Small Step' Line
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." That's the line transmitted to millions of people around the world after Neil Armstrong planted his space boots onto the surface of the Moon...
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The Most Amazing Satellite Images Of The Year
This is your last day to vote in DigitalGlobe's Top Satellite Image of the year contest. The website initially nominated 20 high-resolution birds-eye views of Earth — which are snapped by...
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ISS Astronaut Is Entertaining Himself By Tweeting Pictures From Space
Chris Hadfield is the Flight Engineer on Expedition 34, and is currently living in the International Space Station, in orbit about 250 miles over Earth's surface. He will be spending the next six...
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Gas Streams Are Forming New Planets
An international team of astronomers observing HD142527, a young star 450 light years from Earth surrounded by a disc of gas and cosmic dust, have witnessed the birth of new planets.The gas and dust...
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A Mission To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains
NASA's dream of sending humans to Mars by 2035 might face a new roadblock. For the first time, researchers found that exposure to radiation in deep space could harm astronauts' brains by speeding up...
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Newly-Discovered Martian Meteorite Is Unlike Any Other Rock From Mars
A water-rich Martian meteorite is unlike any meteorite scientists have ever found from the Red Planet. The meteorite has about ten times more water than other Martian meteorites, according to the...
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Astronauts Describe The 'Overview Effect' That Transformed Their Minds After...
A short film released by Planetary Collective called "OVERVIEW" has some fantastic interviews with astronauts who described their experience seeing Earth from space.It's something that can't be...
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A Translucent Rock Feature Has Been Spotted By Curiosity Rover's Cameras
The Curiosity rover has snapped images of a transparent object on the Martian surface that readers at discussion forum Above Top Secret have dubbed a "Martian flower" because it is shaped like a...
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The Colors Of The Bahamas Look Unreal From Space
Last month we published some pictures tweeted by Chris Hadfield, who is living aboard the International Space Station, or ISS, as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 34. In March, he will become the first...
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Simulated Mission To Mars Makes Crew Sleepy And Sluggish
Only four people have spent more than a year in space, the record being 437 days set by Valery Polyakov on the Mir space station, but this century humans are expected to take the long trip to Mars....
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Curiosity Rover Brushes Dust Off A Rock And Reveals White Patch
The Curiosity rover used the Dust Removal Tool at the end of its robotic arm for the first time to sweep some soil off of a Martian rock. The image above shows a patch of rock, called "Ekwir_1,"...
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This Neutron Star Spins Faster Than A Helicopter Rotor
Scientists using the Chandra X-ray Observatory obtained a video of the Vela pulsar, a neutron star 12 miles in diameter that formed when a massive star collapsed. The pulsar is rapidly spinning, making...
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'Doomsday Asteroid' Zooming Past Earth Today Is Bigger Than Thought
A European space telescope has captured new images of the huge asteroid Apophis, revealing that the potentially hazardous object is actually bigger than previously thought — and you have a chance to...
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A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An...
15,000 light-years away from Earth, the universe is acting very strange. A new image of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, shows a clusters of stars with some interesting properties: emitting X-rays and...
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If You Want To Take Part In A One-Way Trip To Mars Starting In 2023, You Must...
If you've always dreamed of going to Mars, 2013 may be the year to get the ball rolling.Mars One, a Dutch-based non-profit seeking to send people to Mars, has put up an advertisement seeking...
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NASA Shells Out $17.8 Million For A Giant Bubble That Attaches To The ISS
NASA announced on Friday that it would grant a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to develop an inflatable space habitat that attaches to the International Space Station. Founded by Robert T....
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The Milky Way Could Be Much Smaller Than We Thought
The Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth's solar system, may actually be only half as massive as currently thought, scientists say.Stars in the far outer reaches of the Milky Way, between 260,000 and...
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