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Astronaut Performs First Cover of 'Space Oddity' from Space

Kyle Dowling — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:15:11 +0000

As good as David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' is, it's still rather surreal watching someone perform it from space.

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You Can Name a Planet in Outrageous Contest

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:39:27 +0000

Earth, Mars, Neptune – how hard can it possibly be to name a planet?

Now’s your chance to find out.

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Crater From World's Third Largest Asteroid Found In Australia

Mike Adams — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:00:57 +0000

After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.

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Dinosaur Footprints Excavated From NASA's Backyard

Mike Adams — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:00:57 +0000

The coolest thing we've ever found behind the house was a cigar box with our dad's stash in it, so this NASA find is pretty exciting.

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White House Rejects Petition to Build Death Star

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:48:04 +0000

The White House's 'We The People' website, which allows citizens to petition the Obama administration to take action on issues facing the nation, has been in the news a lot lately.

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Hear the First Song Ever Recorded On the International Space Station

Tom Blunt — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:02:58 +0000

Even scientists have soul! Take a listen to 'Jewel in the Night,' by Colonel Chris Hadfield.

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Breaking News – Man Parachutes From Edge of Space

Tom Blunt — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:13:27 +0000

Today a base-jumper named Felix Baumgartner attempted a record-breaking high altitude jump from the place where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins.

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NASA To Market Motion-Sickness Nasal Spray

Dan Seitz — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:00:49 +0000

If you get motion sick, you're probably looking for any form of relief. And a source of it is coming from an unlikely place: NASA.

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Did Google Street View Capture the Image of a UFO?

Donald Deane — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:41:51 +0000

After years of being ridiculed, we may finally have proof that UFOs do indeed exist, and it comes from the unlikeliest of places -- Google Street View. Who's laughing now, skeptics?

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This Day in History for September 23 – Neptune Discovered and More

Joe Hyer — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:09:39 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1779 – John Paul Jones declares "I have not yet begun to fight!" (More info)

1846 – German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory (More info)

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Astronomer Says Confirmation of Alien Life Is Only 40 Years Away

Mike Adams — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:10:44 +0000

Aliens have long been major players in science fiction and pop culture, but according to the Queen’s astronomer, Lord Martin Rees, scientists are now within 40 years of actually confirming their (non-fictional) existence.

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RIP Neil Armstrong — Fellow Astronauts Mourn His Death

Emerald Catron — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:25:02 +0000

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, passed away this weekend from complications caused by recent heart surgery. He was 82 years old.

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See Photos and Video From Mars Rover Curiosity

Don Deane — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:46:22 +0000

After an eight month journey, NASA’s multi-billion dollar rover Curiosity made a successful landing on Mars early this morning. Mission controllers cheered after the six-wheeled, one-ton machine made a perilous seven-minute landing involving a parachute, rocket pack and sky crane.

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Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dead at 61

Amy Sciarretto — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:56:57 +0000

Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died. Ride, 61, passed away peacefully at her home in La Jolla, CA. on Monday, July 23 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Scientists Discover New Planet That's Even Smaller Than Earth [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Since 1995, scientists have confirmed the existence of more than 700 so-called exoplanets, but most of them have been massive. Now, though, they’ve found a new one — and it’s even smaller than Earth.

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Space Shuttle Replica Arrives in Houston

Jim Bell — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:57:36 +0000

Houston's "consolation prize" in NASA's space shuttle giveaway has arrived. The 65 ton full-scale model named Explorer has been towed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Space Center Houston, the tourist attraction next door to the Johnson Space Center.

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Study: Long Space flight May Damage Eyesight

Jim Bell — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:59:32 +0000

It's true. A NASA sponsored study in Houston shows brain scans of astronauts who were in space for more than a month revealed potentially serious abnormalities that could force NASA to delay or even cancel plans for longer deep space missions.

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Russia Will Finally Send Men to the Moon

Jim Bell — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:16:04 +0000

Better late than never, we suppose. But more than half a century later?

It's reported that Russia is planning to send a team of cosmonauts to the Moon by the year 2030, which would be more than 60 years after America's Apollo 11 mission effectively signaled the end of the US-Soviet space race.

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Texas Children Will Name Mock Space Shuttle

Jim Bell — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:42:25 +0000

When the mock Space Shuttle Explorer is moved to Clear Lake from Kennedy Space Center later this year, it will get a new name – and that name will be chosen by Texas children in a statewide contest.

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Solar Storm Strikes Earth

Jim Bell — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:36:28 +0000

The largest solar storm in five years has engulfed Earth, but scientists say the planet has lucked out -- so far. It's the result of one of the largest and most dramatic solar explosions ever seen.

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