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This Little Robot Will Help Turn Mars Dust Into Rocket Fuel
At 100 pounds and just 2.5-feet tall, NASA's newest planet-roaming robot could easily become roadkill in a match-up with the one-ton Mars Curiosity rover. Fortunately, this little robot isn't headed...
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Last Night's Rocket Launch Was Totally Beautiful
When NASA's newest satellite soared into space late Wednesday (Jan. 30), a team of photographers captured dazzling views of the rocket streaking into orbit.A series of long-exposure rocket launch...
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Iran May Have Faked Its 'Successful' Space Monkey Trip
Earlier this week, after years of trying, Iran told the world that it finally achieved one of its major goals and launched a monkey into orbit, paving the way for a manned flight.The monkey was even...
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How Astronauts Wash Their Hands In Space
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield has a great series of videos of random things floating in space and how astronauts cut their nails in zero gravity without making a mess.Hadfield's latest...
View ArticleWatch The Sun Rise And Set And Rise Again From The International Space Station
NASA took this video from the International Space Station, as it was circling the Earth. As the space station orbits through dark and light, it sees the sun come and go. You can see the moon rising...
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In The Future, Astronauts Could Print Out Their Moon Bases
3D printers have already been used to build lamps, kitchen tools and working locks. All of this stuff is useful on Earth and uses relatively small desktop printers. The same technology is now being...
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Curiosity Taps Into Its First Martian Rock, Which May Have Once Held Water
NASA's Curiosity rover is preparing for its biggest engineering task since landing on Mars. On Feb. 2, the rover's 176th sol on Mars, Curiosity used the bit of the drill on its robotic arm to "tap"...
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Felix Baumgartner Fell Even Faster Than Thought
When Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped to Earth from the edge of space in October, preliminary estimates clocked him at a top speed of 834 mph, or Mach 1.24.Official numbers released by Red...
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Astronomers Have Never Seen An Asteroid This Big Come So Close To Earth
A "small" asteroid will make a record close approach to Earth next week, coming inside the earth-centric orbit of most man-made satellites. NASA scientists at the near-Earth object program are...
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Amateur Astronomer's Picture Reveals Stunning Details About Our Galactic...
The image below is of a nearby galaxy known as Messier 106, one of the brightest and nearest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way. It's about 20 million light-years away.This new image was created by...
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The Seagull Nebula Glows Red With Fiery Gasses
The image below is of a section of the Seagull Nebula, part of the "wings" in the image above. It was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory...
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There Could Be A Habitable Planet Just 13 Light Years Away From Earth
Humanity's next home could be circling a strange type of star, known as a red dwarf, a new study suggests.A red dwarf is a type of star that is smaller than our sun. They are also cooler and fainter....
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This Drill Bit May Be The Key To Finding Life On Mars
The image above is a head-on view of the tip of the drill bit on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. It may look threatening when it's right in your face, but the bit is actually just .6 inch wide — in other...
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William Shatner Will Chat With A Space Station Astronaut Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Thursday Feb. 7, starting at 10:30 a.m., William Shatner of "Star Trek" fame will conduct a conference call with the Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield, who is in charge...
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Living In Space Is No Worse Than Being On A Long Business Trip
Earlier today William Shatner called the International Space Station and chatted with Astronaut Chris Hadfield.Shatner asked Hadfield what it was like being away from Earth for so long, and how he...
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Engineers Explain What It Takes To Get A Job At Elon Musk's SpaceX
SpaceX, the space transport company founded by superhero entrepreneur Elon Musk, is a glamorous brand.It seems like quite an appealing place to work. After all, there aren't many companies out there...
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The Most Powerful Earth-Watching Satellite Launches Today
The eighth satellite in NASA's Earth-watching Landsat fleet will launch Monday, Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch is targeted for 1:02 p.m. on the East Coast. The first...
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Vote To Name One Of Pluto's Moons 'Styx'
The Hubble space telescope spotted two new moons orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto during its observations in 2011 and 2012.Since then, astronomers have been calling them P4 and P5, but now, they've...
View ArticleNASA's Mohawk Guy Is Having The Time Of His Life At The White House
Bobak Ferdowsi, the man who rose to fame as the flight director of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, is having a great time at the White House as First Lady Michelle Obama's State of the...
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Giant Black Holes Grow Even Faster Than We Thought
Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists once thought, a new study suggests.The supermassive black holes that lurk at the...
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