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Blue Origin will perform its next test flight of the New Shepard rocket with a faulty parachute system on the crew capsule.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Thursday's (May 26) planned blastoff of an upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a lucrative commercial mission to deliver a Thai telecommunications satellite to orbit, was postponed in the final stages of the countdown after engineers discovered a technical glitch in the booster's second stage.
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Neptune, being the farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto!) is now recognized as also being the coldest body in the Solar System
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We've lived on planet Earth all of our lives, but how much does the average person know about the planet that's beneath our feet?
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Stars are hot, we know that, everyone knows that. But are there "cold stars"? It all depends on what you mean by the word "cold" and the word "star".
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A team of Armenian researchers has proposed a new answer to why time only moves in one-direction: it's all because of dark energy!
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Volcanic eruptions are driven by a combination of mechanisms, which include pressure and heat in the Earth's mantle, as well as tectonic activity
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NASA's proposed new budget is mostly good news, though some planned missions will not be funded.
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Get ready. Saturn reaches opposition for 2016 at the start of June, making it the best time to track down the ringed planet.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Just three weeks after SpaceX's last launch from their Florida launch base, the growing and influential aerospace firm is deep into commencing their next space spectacular - targeting this Thursday, May 26, for launch of a Thai comsat followed moments later by a sea landing attempt of the booster on a tough trajectory.
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The BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) is attached to the International Space Station, and will be carefully inflated on Thursday, May 26th.
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Using data provided by the New Horizon's spacecraft, scientists and the New York Times have created app that lets people to take a 3D VR tour of Pluto
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Thanks to breakthroughs like Breakthrough Starshot, it may be easier to find extra-terrestrial intelligence, by looking for signs of laser beams!
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A mysterious plume seen on Mars four years ago may have been caused by the impact of a large solar storm.
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Paul Patton begins a three-part series on the evolutionary biology of aliens. Will they follow the same direction as life on Earth?
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If you accelerate at 1G, you can create artificial gravity inside your spaceship. And there's the added advantage that you can cross billions of light years within a human lifetime. How far can we travel?
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Most people think Mt. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but this is not so. Owing to Earth's peculiar shape, it's actually Mt. Chimborazo
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America's first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth - OSIRIS-Rex - has arrived at its Florida launch base for processing to get ready for blastoff barely three and one half months from today.
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