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When a private space traveler said he wanted to take a SpaceX capsule on a mission to improve the aging Hubble telescope, NASA studied the options. Internal emails show concern about the risk.
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A powerful solar storm struck Earth, triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies around the world — and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there have been measurable effects and impacts from the biggest geomagnetic storm in decades.
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The Atlas V is being rolled back into the facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station so the liquid oxygen valve can be replaced. The next opportunity to launch to the space station won’t be for at least another week, May 17th at the earliest.
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With a mass 17 billion times larger than our sun, this black hole is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, Australian National University said.
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The one-in-a-billion chance it could have hit somebody on the head didn't become a reality, as the European satellite reentered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii.
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The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.
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NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload initiative, or CLPS, is changing the way science gets to the moon. By relying on commercial partners, NASA can send more science to the lunar surface and at a much faster rate.
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If successful, the uncrewed spacecraft would be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, and would mean one giant leap for the commercial space sector.
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An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said
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The crew of four commercial astronauts flew to the International Space Station last month on a SpaceX rocket and capsule. Their time in space was extended several days due to poor weather off Florida.
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The Falcon rocket headed south over the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral to achieve a rare polar orbit. It will spend at least three years studying the oceans from 420 miles up, as well as the atmosphere.
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A group of students are analyzing their science experiment after it was aboard the ISS and landed back on Earth.
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Seventy-two flights later, the small-but-mighty helicopter's time has come to an end after it was damaged during a test flight last week.