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WATCH: Giant Space Rock Headed Our Way

2013-05-18T01:40:30Z

A gigantic asteroid will fly by our planet at the end of this month, making its closest approach for at least the next two centuries on May 31. But, d...

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WATCH: Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon

2013-05-18T01:22:24Z

By: Clara Moskowitz
Published: 05/17/2013 11:20 AM EDT on SPACE.com
The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into i...

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Off-World Driving Record Broken After Four Decades

2013-05-17T08:41:16Z

By: Mike Wall
Published: 05/16/2013 06:47 PM EDT on SPACE.com
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet ...

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Dan Mirvish: Buzz Aldrin's Cryptic Advice to 'Finish School' Raises Questions

2013-05-16T16:06:39Z

After we waited patiently in line for a couple hours with a jovial crowd of space enthusiasts, Buzz signed his book for us and we asked if he had any advice for my son if he wanted to be an astronaut. Buzz looked slightly puzzled at first, then stared deep into my boy's eyes: "Finish school."

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Legendary Apollo Astronaut Joins Moon Flight Firm

2013-05-16T13:11:52Z

By: Clara Moskowitz
Published: 05/16/2013 07:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com
Legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has signed on with a commercial lunar...

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Strange 'Polluted' Stars Discovered By Space Telescope

2013-05-14T14:55:46Z

By: Megan Gannon
Published: 05/14/2013 11:42 AM EDT on SPACE.com

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered two dead stars 150 ...

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'Einstein's Planet' Discovered In Distant Constellation

2013-05-14T08:12:30Z

By: Clara Moskowitz
Published: 05/14/2013 06:21 AM EDT on SPACE.com
Einstein's special relativity has proven more useful than ever, as scientists ...

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Massive Solar Flare Sparks Radio Blackout

2013-05-13T08:36:47Z

By: Tariq Malik
Published: 05/13/2013 06:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com

The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what...

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Moon's Shadow Spotted During 'Ring Of Fire' Eclipse

2013-05-11T11:17:37Z

By: Mike Wall
Published: 05/10/2013 02:11 PM EDT on SPACE.com
A NASA Earth-observing satellite has captured the moon's shadow darkening a patch of...

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Astronauts Plan Emergency Spacewalk

2013-05-10T12:40:38Z

By: Miriam Kramer
Published: 05/10/2013 10:33 AM EDT on SPACE.com
Astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a possible emerg...

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LOOK: Mars Like You've Never Seen Before

2013-05-10T09:17:53Z

Astronomers often use "false-color" images to better understand deep space phenomena like supernova remnants or nebulae. But false color imagery is al...

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WATCH: Neil Armstrong's Moon Heartbeat For Sale

2013-05-08T16:33:56Z

AMHERST, N.H. -- A New Hampshire auction house will soon accept bids on space and aviation artifacts, including an electrocardiogram of Apollo 11 Comm...

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LOOK: NASA Captures Strange 'Blue Clouds' Above The Marshall Islands

2013-05-08T08:19:01Z

NASA photographer John Grant has captured a strange sight above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

The odd blue clouds look like a unique aurora ...

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NASA: We'll Send Your Poems To Mars

2013-05-08T09:28:24Z

Calling all space poets!

NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send a message to Mars aboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution space...

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OnEarth: Behold the Climate 'Bots!

2013-05-07T12:48:37Z

By Melissa Mahony, OnEarthRemember the rovers, NASA's Mars-trekking robots that have been roaming the red planet off and on since 2004? Well, here com...

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WATCH: 'Eye-Wateringly Bright' Star Explosion Breaks Record

2013-05-07T07:48:38Z

By: Miriam Kramer
Published: 05/06/2013 05:49 PM EDT on SPACE.com
Two NASA space telescopes have captured what appears to be the most powerful sta...

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NASA Mulls How To Spend Its Inheritance

2013-05-06T08:40:08Z

By: Mike Wall
Published: 05/06/2013 07:12 AM EDT on SPACE.com
NASA is sorting through a variety of possible uses for a pair of powerful spy satell...

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Meteor Shower Peaking NOW

2013-05-05T10:40:41Z

By: Tariq Malik
Published: 05/05/2013 09:38 AM EDT on SPACE.com
A meteor shower created by bits of Halley's Comet is at its peak now, and NASA has...

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ISS Dodges Cosmic Bullet...Almost

2013-05-02T12:12:53Z

By: Miriam Kramer
Published: 05/02/2013 10:08 AM EDT on SPACE.com
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have dodged a cosmic bullet .....

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Prolific Planet-Hunting Space Probe Now Ailing

2013-05-02T08:14:40Z

By: Mike Wall
Published: 05/01/2013 10:01 AM EDT on SPACE.com
Health issues are jeopardizing the planet-hunting work of NASA's prolific Kepler spa...

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WATCH: Orbiting Telescope Has VERY Close Call With Old Spy Satellite

2013-05-02T07:59:23Z

By: Miriam Kramer
Published: 05/01/2013 02:08 PM EDT on SPACE.com
A high-tech NASA telescope in orbit escaped a potentially disastrous collision w...

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Russia Charges NASA $70 Million Per Seat To Fly Astronauts To ISS

2013-04-30T15:16:01Z

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress...

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Record-Setting Space Telescope Shuts Its Eye Forever

2013-04-30T14:09:23Z

By: Miriam Kramer
Published: 04/30/2013 12:01 PM EDT on SPACE.com
After nearly four years mapping the "hidden universe," the largest infrared tele...

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WATCH: Stupendous Storm Churns At Planet's North Pole

2013-04-30T12:13:04Z

On Monday, NASA released stunning photos and video of a massive storm that researchers believe has been swirling at high speed around Saturn's north p...

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LOOK: Monster Hurricane Spied On Saturn

2013-04-30T11:23:24Z

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole.

The eye of the cyclone i...

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