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Explore astronomy, from the latest trip to the International Space Station to alien planets outside our solar system.

  • NASA's 'Grand Challenge': Stop asteroids from destroying Earth

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 3:36 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The space agency is seeking ideas from the public, businesses, and academics on how to divert an asteroid. Ideas are due July 18.

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  • New NASA astronaut candidates excited to be chosen

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 3:20 PM by Robert Z. Pearlman, SPACE.com

    The 8 new candidates say they are thrilled at the prospect of contributing to humanity's space exploration efforts.

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  • Supercomputer simulation reveals inner workings of black holes

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 2:05 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    Scientists have discovered 'soft' and 'hard' X-rays being emitted from black holes.

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  • NASA unveils new astronaut class for deep-space exploration

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 12:06 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The new spaceflyer hopefuls were selected from more than 6,000 applications.

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  • NASA's Kepler telescope spots 503 new alien planets

    Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:53 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    Kepler has collected huge amounts of data, and researchers have had time to go through just about half of it so far.

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  • 50 years of women in space

    Fri, Jun 14, 2013 2:10 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    From Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 to Wang Yaping in 2013, women have been launching into space for half a century.

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  • Sun propelled solar sail to launch in fall 2014

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 6:10 PM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    NASA will send off the Sunjammer, which covers one-third of an acre when it's unfurled, to record space weather and study the sun.

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  • NASA goes green with reusable rockets

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 12:10 PM by Jillian Scharr, SPACE.com

    A reusable spacecraft has to be able to survive entering and exiting space and protect against salt water.

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  • Astronomers discover 26 new black holes in Andromeda galaxy

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 10:37 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    Scientists expected to find these black holes in our neighbor galaxy's center because of Andromeda's dense blob of stars at its center.

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  • Mars gullies may be carved by dry ice 'sleds'

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 9:58 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    The gullies were formed during the early Martian spring on dunes that spend the winter covered by carbon dioxide frost.

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  • Telescope takes a balloon ride to study the sun

    Thu, Jun 13, 2013 7:50 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    The Sunrise solar observatory aims to study the sun's magnetic field on the telescope's journey from Sweden to Canada.

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  • Space station's first treadmill to be jettisoned

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 1:00 PM by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com

    After more than 12 years, the TVIS has been replaced by a Russian-built unit and will meet its fiery destruction in late July.

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  • Send your messages to deep space aliens through new project

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 12:26 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    The Lone Signal project asks everyone to join in as it attempts to send continuous messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence.

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  • Did woman see a UFO at castle near Amsterdam?

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 10:22 AM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience's Life's Little Mysteries

    An expert suspects that the mysterious object in the photograph is probably an insect of some sort.

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  • Meteorite reveals that Mars had key component to life

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:38 AM by Megan Gannon, SPACE.com

    Billions of years ago, Mars may have been rich in RNA, the molecules that used to pass traits on between generations before DNA took over that role.

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