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How a shifting ocean caused Pluto to flip over – putting its ‘heart’ in the right place
Read more →: How a shifting ocean caused Pluto to flip over – putting its ‘heart’ in the right placeSputnik Planitia, the left lobe of Pluto’s “heart,” is thought to have formed as the result of a…
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Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths
Read more →: Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien EarthsAn artist’s concept shows Project Blue’s telescope monitoring Alpha Centauri. (Credit: Project Blue) How much would you pay…
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Soyuz crew launcher rolled out for liftoff from Kazakhstan
Read more →: Soyuz crew launcher rolled out for liftoff from KazakhstanThe Soyuz booster that will send the International Space Station’s next three residents into orbit later this week…
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Weather forecast favorable for launch of new weather observatory atop Atlas 5
Read more →: Weather forecast favorable for launch of new weather observatory atop Atlas 5File photo of Atlas 5. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Near-perfect weather for launching a rocket…
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You’ll get a howl out of this: Supermoon turns Buzz Aldrin into American Werewolf
Read more →: You’ll get a howl out of this: Supermoon turns Buzz Aldrin into American WerewolfThis week’s supermoon has been pretty much clouded out in Seattle, but it appears to have had an…
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Video: Soyuz rocket rolled to pad for Expedition 50 crew launch
Read more →: Video: Soyuz rocket rolled to pad for Expedition 50 crew launchThe Russian Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft and booster rocket were rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur…
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Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet
Read more →: Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planetAn image from Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky Pathfinder-1 satellite shows farms and industrial sites around Beijing. Click on the…
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Mysterious weather satellite launched from China
Read more →: Mysterious weather satellite launched from ChinaA Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 2314 GMT (6:14 p.m. EST) Friday with the Yunhai 1…
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This supermoon will be extra-super
Read more →: This supermoon will be extra-superSeattle photographer Tim Durkan captured this view of the full moon behind the Space Needle. (Credit: TimDurkan.com) The…
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Photos: Rollback of pad gantry to reveal Atlas 5 for launch
Read more →: Photos: Rollback of pad gantry to reveal Atlas 5 for launchEarly Friday morning, the 8-million-pound mobile service tower was retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the…
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Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from California
Read more →: Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from CaliforniaA United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket departs Vandenberg Air Force Base today at 10:30 a.m. local time…
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NASA keeping human spaceflight options open as Trump presidency looms
Read more →: NASA keeping human spaceflight options open as Trump presidency loomsArtist’s concept of the Orion spacecraft during a lunar flyby maneuver on its planned unpiloted test flight in…