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SpaceX launches ‘Zuma’ spacecraft with secret U.S. government payload, lands Falcon 9
Read more →: SpaceX launches ‘Zuma’ spacecraft with secret U.S. government payload, lands Falcon 9UPDATED: SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this evening, carrying a secretive U.S.…
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Legendary astronaut John W. Young dies
Read more →: Legendary astronaut John W. Young diesJohn Young pictured through spacecraft window prior to launch of Gemini 3 mission. Photo: NASA. Legendary astronaut John…
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Plot thickens as New Horizons moves within year of next flyby
Read more →: Plot thickens as New Horizons moves within year of next flybyArtist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest…
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Alien megastructure? Forget about it, weird star’s discoverers say after further study
Read more →: Alien megastructure? Forget about it, weird star’s discoverers say after further studyAstronomer Tabetha Boyajian discusses Tabby’s Star, “the most mysterious star in the universe,” during a TED talk in…
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Quadrantid meteors reach their peak, upstaged by a supermoon’s afterglow
Read more →: Quadrantid meteors reach their peak, upstaged by a supermoon’s afterglowA Quadrantid fireball lights up the sky. (Jimmy Westlake Photo via NASA / Colorado Mountain College) News Brief:…
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SpaceX releases close up images of Falcon Heavy’s launch pad debut
Read more →: SpaceX releases close up images of Falcon Heavy’s launch pad debutSpaceX has released the first close-up images and video of the Falcon Heavy rocket at launch complex 39A…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches and lands at Cape Canaveral
Read more →: Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches and lands at Cape CanaveralLive coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the…
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Russian official blames Nov. 28 launch failure on botched software programming
Read more →: Russian official blames Nov. 28 launch failure on botched software programmingA Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off Nov. 28 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East. Credit: Roscosmos A…
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Year in space: Look back at 2017’s black sun … look forward to 2018’s bright moon
Read more →: Year in space: Look back at 2017’s black sun … look forward to 2018’s bright moonEclipse watchers turned Aug. 21’s event into a party at Kerry Park in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire…
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Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at Vandenberg
Read more →: Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at VandenbergA clandestine satellite owned by the National Reconnaissance Office has been raised atop its United Launch Alliance Delta…
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How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life
Read more →: How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien lifeThis map from the University of Puerto Rico’s Planetary Habitability Laboratory shows the known planetary systems within about…
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Time-lapse video: Falcon Heavy lowered after launch pad debut
Read more →: Time-lapse video: Falcon Heavy lowered after launch pad debutThe Falcon Heavy rocket was lowered to the horizontal position before sunrise Friday morning after less than a…