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Weekly Space Hangout – February 21, 2014: Two-Man Show!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Astrojournalist: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) This Week's Stories: (more…)
Keeping An Eye On Gaia
Gaia, ESA's long-anticipated mission to map the stars of our galaxy (as well as do a slew of other cool…
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NASA Pressing Towards Fall 2014 Orion Test Flight – Service Module Complete
Engineers prepare Orion’s service module for installation of the fairings that will protect it during launch this fall when Orion…
Wake Up, Rosetta!
It's being called "the most important alarm clock in the Solar System" -- this Monday, January 20, at 10:00 GMT…
Watch Gaia Go From Lab to Launch in Two Minutes
In the early pre-dawn hours on December 19, 2013, with a rumble and a roar, a Soyuz rocket blazed through…
Weekly Space Hangout – December 20, 2013: Gaia Launch, Apollo 8 & Emergency Spacewalks
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Nicole Gugliucci, Jason Major, Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson, Elizabeth Howell (more…)
Watch a Star Blast Out Waves of Light
6,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Puppis an enormous star pulses with light and energy, going through the first…
Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Erupting from Europa
It's been known since 2005 that Saturn's 300-mile-wide moon Enceladus has geysers spewing ice and dust out into orbit from…
Take a Virtual Spin Around Mars’ North Pole
Get a satellite’s-eye view of the Martian north pole in this new animation from the Mars Express spacecraft, using data…