CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A Cold War-era derived Peacekeeper ICBM missile formerly armed with multiple nuclear warheads and now modified as a payload orbiter successfully launched an urgently needed space situational awareness and space junk tracking satellite to equatorial orbit overnight this morning, Aug. 26, for the U.S. military from the Florida Space Coast.
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A new study from the University of Antioquia suggests that the mysterious behavior of Tabby's Star could be due to a ringed gas giant.
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The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known as Dragonfly.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A gap filling space surveillance satellite that will track orbiting threats for the U.S. Air Force is set for an thrilling nighttime blastoff Friday, Aug. 25 on the maiden mission of the Minotaur IV rocket from Cape Canaveral that's powered by a retired Cold War-era ICBM missile once armed with nuclear warheads.
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A new research study by a group of astronomers, based on observation using the VLTI, has created the most detailed map of a star other than the Sun.
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SANTEE, SOUTH CAROLINA - Witnessing 'Totality' during Monday's 'Great American Solar Eclipse' was a truly mesmerizing experience far beyond anything I imagined and something I will never forget -That's a sentiment shared by millions upon millions of fellow gushing spectators.
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A team of European scientists analyzed five years worth of Mars Express data, which revealed interesting things about how its atmosphere interacts with solar wind
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A new experiment conducted by an international team of scientists has recreated the "diamond rains" thought to exist inside Uranus and Neptune
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A new study of the "Rusty Rocks" returned by the Apollo 16 mission suggest that the Moon's interior is very dry, contrary to what recent studies have claimed
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They came, they saw, they battled clouds, traffic and strange charger adapters in a strange land. Yesterday, millions stood in awe as the shadow of the Moon rolled over the contiguous United States for the first time in a century. If you're like us, your social media feed is now brimming with amazing images of yesterday's total solar eclipse.
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NASA will be live-streaming their coverage of the 2017 Solar Eclipse today (August 21st, 2017) as it makes its way across the continental US
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Today marked the end of an era for NASA as the last of the agency's next generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TRDS) that transmit the critical science data and communications for the Hubble Space Telescope and human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station, successfully rocketed to orbit this morning, Fri. Aug 18 from the Florida Space Coast.
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According to NASA, the large Near-Earth Asteroid known as Florence will pass harmlessly past Earth this coming September
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A new study from the University of Texas Arlington has indicated that the Gliese 832 system (located just 16 light-years away) may have a third exoplanet
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The last of NASA's next generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TRDS) that looks like a giant alien fish or cocooned creature but actually plays an absolutely vital role in relaying critical science measurements, research data and tracking observations gathered by the International Space Station (ISS), Hubble and a plethora of Earth science missions is poised for blastoff Friday, Aug. 18, morning from the Florida Space Coast.
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As part of its Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies program, NASA has selected a CubeSat mission to study Venus' atmosphere.
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