KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Nearing the final days of his history making one-year-long sojourn in orbit, space farming NASA astronaut Scott Kelly harvested the first ever crop of 'Space Zinnias' grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on a most appropriate day - Valentine's Day, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016.
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A Gamma Ray Burst detected from the same source as last week's gravitational waves requires a new understanding of the black holes involved. But was the GRB even real?
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For the first time in 25 years, a woman has won Canada's top science award. Dr. Victoria Kaspi is a pulsar researcher from McGill University and has helped our understanding of these amazing objects.
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The planets of our Solar System vary considerably in terms of density, which is crucial in terms of its classification and knowing how it was formed.
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China's new radio telescope will be the largest in the world, and will help in the search for alien life.
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Exotic "Diamond Planet" gets even more exotic with the discovery of a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - A time-lapse video newly released by NASA documents the painstakingly complex assembly of the primary mirror at the heart of the biggest space telescope ever conceived by humankind - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Russian scientists say design work has already begun on missiles designed to destroy incoming asteroids.
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Some great images of the dawn alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, with a very special sneak peek at all the planetary action to come in 2016.
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Messier Object 3 (aka. NGC 5272), a globular cluster located in the constellation of Canes Venatici, is one of the brightest clusters in the sky.
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Watch the Moon as it crosses the Hyades star cluster tonite, and occults the bright star Aldebaran for observers in the United States northwest.
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Researchers at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak facility in Hefei, China, claim that they have reached a major milestone in fusion power
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Looking for a cosmic way to say "I love you" this Valentine's Day? Let Mars, Pluto and Bennu help you out.
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The Obama Administration has announced its new Federal budget and is proposing to cut NASA's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget to $19 billion by carving away significant funding for deep space exploration, whereas the overall US Federal budget actually increases to over $4.1 trillion.
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