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NASA Kicks Off 2012 With New Moon Mission

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 01.03.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- The cruise to the moon took 3 1/2 months and covered 2 1/2 million miles – far longer than the direct three-day flight by Apollo ...

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NASA: Massive Asteroid 'Unlike Any Other'

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 12.06.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- New views of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal it is more like a planet than an asteroid, scientists said Monday. Since slipping into ...

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Why We Might Need To Dig To Find Life On Mars

Posted 01.03.2012

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A new study from NASA postulates that if life ever existed on Mars, it was probably underground. Ever since clay minerals were discovered on Mars i...

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WATCH: NASA Discovers 'Bubbles' At Solar System's Edge

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 08.10.2011

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NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft have made a baffling discovery along their journey to the outer limits of the solar system. Scientists studying the...

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Scientists Find Thunderstorms Create Antimatter

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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*Scroll down for video, pictures.* NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found evidence of thunderstorms on Earth shooting antimatter particle...

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Mono Lake Discovery Raises Questions: Does Extraterrestrial Life Exist? (POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The discovery of a new form of bacteria that lives off arsenic in California's Mono Lake has led many to speculate about the existence extraterrestria...

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Watch "Space Shuttle Parking Lot," a Fans' Look at the Last Night Launch in Space City, USA

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

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By now it's a somewhat common event. But a shuttle launch is still one of mankind's most complex and massive undertakings. To those who see it in person it's the spectacle of a lifetime.

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Mimas Moon PHOTOS: NASA Spacecraft Sees 'Pac-Man' On Saturn Moon

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the highest-resolution-to-date temperature map and images of Mimas, one of Saturn's moons. The portrait of t...

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Asteroid Collision: Mysterious Space Debris Suggests Asteroids

Huffington Post | Amanda Ng | Posted 05.25.2011

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NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have seen befo...

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This Week In Space: New Planets Found, Obama's Decision, More (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Miles O'Brien and the good people at SpaceFlightNow helpfully recap all the major space news from the past week. Along with some fascinating interv...

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