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These Astounding Images Reveal #Space Like We've Never Seen It Before

Space isn't the sparkling, color-soaked universe it seems to be.

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Former Japanese Airline Pilot Fulfills Dream to Fly in #Space

Astronaut Takuya Onishi scores a first.

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This innovation could change #space #travel forever

A spacecraft called Dawn just took a giant leap towards changing how we travel through the solar system

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Rosetta all set for fact-finding finale

Descent to the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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#NASA approves new far-flung destination for #Pluto space probe

Post-Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now officially homing in on a primitive red object in the Kuiper belt

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#Space junk cleanup mission prepares for #launch

RemoveDebris operation will test a range of devices, including nets and harpoons, designed to sweep up litter orbiting Earth

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Wow! #Space Station Crosses Sun's Face in Amazing Photo

A stunning skywatcher photo shows the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the face of the sun earlier this month.

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Find out how the first #galaxies came together in three minutes

Minute Physics pieces together what we know about the great-great-grandfathers of galaxies that we see today.

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#Juno Spacecraft Enters #Jupiter's Orbit

JPL scientists and engineers hug, high five as unmanned probe enters planet's orbit to begin 20-month mission mapping giant planet

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Inside ULA's Plan to Have 1,000 People Working in #Space by 2045

United Launch Alliance has outlined a plan that it says will help enable a space economy based on refueling spacecraft in Earth orbit.

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University #Astronomers Release Spectacular Images of the Distant #Universe

Astronomers at The University of Nottingham have released spectacular new infrared images of the distant Universe, providing the deepest view ever obtained over a large area of sky. The team, led by Omar Almaini, Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, is presenting their results at the National Astronomy Meeting taking place …

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#Images of a Beautiful Planet Offer Perspective from #Space

Distance gives perspective, or so the saying goes - now, we can get some perspective from IMAX images from 400 kilometers away from the International Space Station

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Successful #rocket launch keeps #China on track for second #space station

The successful launch and recovery of an experimental probe aboard China's new Long March 7 rocket keeps the country on schedule to launch a second space station this year, with an eye toward traveling to Mars by the end of the decade.

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The #Russian Plan To Spin Off a New #Space Station From the #ISS

The end of the International Space Station may not be the end after all.

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Jeff #Bezos Heats Up His #Space Race with Elon #Musk

A massive new rocket factory could put Blue Origin in direct competition with SpaceX.

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'#Space base between #Earth and the #Moon within a decade', announces European Space Agency

A space base between Earth and the Moon could be built within a decade, the European Space Agency has announced, as British astronaut Tim Peake said he would love to embark on a lunar mission.

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Caribbean Sea's Curious 'Whistle' Detected from #Space

A pattern of wave movement combined with underwater geography in the Caribbean Sea transform the basin into a "whistle" and produce a unique sound too low to hear.