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Hubble celebrates 15th anniversaryIn the 15 years that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has orbited Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photographs of the cosmos. |
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Asteroid Belt Discovered Around Our Sun’s “Twin”NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a massive asteroid belt around a "twin" of our own sun. |
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Early universe was “perfect” fluid: StudyScientists using a giant atom smasher said they have created a new state of matter -- a hot, dense liquid made out of basic atomic particles -- and said it shows what the early universe looked like for a very, very brief time. |
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Hints of cosmic crash at Serpent MoundSifting through rocks snagged from twin boreholes punched deep into the planet's crust, scientists have detected an unearthly substance hidden for eons in Ohio's basement. |
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Successful blast of Soyuz TMA-6 spaceshipA Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Friday local time carrying a three-man crew up to the International Space Station, or ISS |
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New NASA Boss May Save HubbleThe nominee for NASA administrator said he would reconsider the decision to cancel a shuttle servicing visit to the Hubble Space Telescope once the fleet had safely returned to flight. |
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Eclipse wows skywatchers, Web watchersThe moon blotted out the sun Friday across a wide stretch extending from the South Pacific to the Americas, with a precious few witnessing a total eclipse at sea. |
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European quest to find life on MarsEuropean scientists want to land on Mars. More than 100 researchers announced yesterday that they plan a robot mission in 2011 to tackle the most dramatic question in space science: is there extra-terrestrial life? |
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Shuttle Discovery Arrives At Launch Pad ThursdayNASA moved one step closer to returning to space Thursday with the arrival of the shuttle Discovery at its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. |
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Virgin says space flight plan completeFlamboyant British tycoon Richard Branson said on Thursday his Virgin group's ambitious plans for commercial space flights are complete and the first fee-paying astronaut will fly with him into orbit in the next 30 months. |
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EXCLUSIVE: First Confirmed Picture of a Planet Beyond the Solar SystemAfter a few close calls, astronomers have finally obtained the first photograph of a planet beyond our solar system, SPACE.com has learned. |
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Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust BunniesLike dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies. |
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Spacewalk Completed Early, With No MishapsThe two space station astronauts installed antennas and released a baby Sputnik during a spacewalk Monday, completing the work just before the orbiting outpost drifted and rolled slightly because its gyroscopes were overloaded. |
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NASA Making Progress on Shuttle FlightsThe U.S. space agency is making progress in its preparations for the resumption of shuttle flights scheduled for mid-May, a senior NASA Latest News about NASA official said Tuesday. |
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