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China’s Lunar Test Spacecraft Takes Incredible Picture of Earth and Moon Together
The Chinese lunar test mission Chang'e 5T1 has sent back some amazing and unique views of the Moon's far side,…
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Why Watch ESA Rosetta’s Movie ‘Ambition’? Because We Want to Know What is Possible
NASA has taken on space missions that have taken years to reach their destination; they have more than a dozen…
Google Exec Hands Silicon Valley the Stratospheric Jump Record
Just a little over two years since Felix Baumgartner broke USAF Colonel Joseph Kittinger's stratospheric jump record, Alan Eustace from…
This Is the Very First Photo of Earth From Space
These days we see photos of our planet taken from space literally every day. Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station,…
Questioning the Impact Theory: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
About sixty five and a half million years ago, the Earth suffered its largest known cosmic impact. An asteroid or…
No, This Is Not a Photo of India on Diwali
Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, falls on Thursday, Oct. 23 this year and with it come celebrations, gift-giving, and…
Cat 4 Hurricane Gonzalo Threatens Bermuda and Delays Antares Launch to Space Station
Hurricane Gonzalo, the first major Atlantic Ocean basin hurricane in three years, has strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm,…
Gravity’s Magic: New Seafloor Map Shows Earth’s Uncharted Depths
Volcanoes! Seafloor spreading! Hidden ridges and mountains! These are the wonders being revealed in new maps of Earth's sea floor.…
Earth and Mars Captured Together in One Photo from Lunar Orbit
Wow, this doesn't happen very often: Earth and Mars together in one photo. To make the image even more unique,…
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NASA Inaugurates New Space Station Era as Earth Science Observation Platform with RapidScat Instrument
NASA inaugurated a new era of research for the International Space Station (ISS) as an Earth observation platform following the…