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White House: Thumbs down on Death Star, thumbs up on space
The White House says building a Death Star would be an out-of-this-galaxy waste of money — not only because it’s against government policy to blow up planets, but also because the United States already...
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The biggest thing in the universe is really, really big
A newly discovered galactic structure is so large that it means one of our basic assumptions about the nature of the universe could be wrong. You and I are really, really small. And we’re even smaller...
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NASA, Europeans uniting to send space capsule to moon, flights targeted for...
NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit. Europe will provide the propulsion and power compartment for NASA’s Orion crew capsule, officials said...
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NASA to light skies over East Coast tonight
NASA will launch a rocket tonight (Jan. 29) on a mission that promises to put on a spectacular, albeit brief, light show over the U.S. East Coast that may be visible to stargazers along the Atlantic...
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Space Tourist to Announce Daring Manned Mars Voyage for 2018
The world’s first space tourist, Dennis Tito is planning to launch a manned mission to Mars in January 2018 on a round-trip journey lasting 501 days. Tito, who paid about $20 million to visit the...
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Elon Musk: Our future in space depends on reusable rockets
The future of space travel will depend on our ability to make rockets that can be used more than once, says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. And on Saturday, he gave a crowd at the South by Southwest Interactive...
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Japan quake ‘heard at edge of space’
The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space. Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through...
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Astrobiologist says alien life may be rare across universe, if it even exists
When it comes to life across the cosmos, the universe might just be an “awful waste of space” after all. A new theory presented at a conference this week would confirm the worry of Ellie Arroway, Jodie...
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Lasers, orbital Wi-Fi, and more in the works for NASA’s space Internet
In orbit around our planet, hundreds of satellites constantly relay a huge amount of data back and forth, not to mention streaming it down to the surface. But the aging system is nearly at capacity, so...
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Planck satellite: Esa to release maps of ancient light
New maps of the “oldest light” in the Universe will be released shortly by the European Space Agency (Esa). The images were assembled from data acquired by the organisation’s 600m-euro (£515m) Planck...
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