Space
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Big Bang until now: graphic summarises 14 billion-year history of the Universe
The European Space Agency has released a beautiful graphic summarising the almost 14 billion year history of the Univ...
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Best evidence yet of Ganymede's giant ocean
Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede's subterranean ocean could have more water than all the water on Earth's surface, acc...
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Space station crew safely back on Earth
International Space Station Expedition 42 personnel have landed safely near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.Comman...
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New evidence of hydrothermal activity on Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has hydrothermal activity that may be si...
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NASA's Space Launch System booster passes test
The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up successfully yesterday in a test in prepar...
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Astronauts get a rare glimpse of a cloud-free New Zealand
It's not called the Land of the Long White Cloud for nothing. NASA says it rarely gets a clear view of NewZealand fro...
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Engineers take stock of Orion after successful flight
Engineers are studying NASA's Orion spacecraft and the data it produced during its successful flight test in December...
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Dawn arrives on Ceres
After a stopover at an asteroid, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached its final destination. Alan Duffy...
An artist's impression of the Dawn spacecraft making its way through the asteroid belt, where it has been sent to inv...
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Mars lost more water than the volume of the Arctic Ocean
An ancient ocean on Mars held more water than is in the Arctic Ocean today, NASA scientists estimate, but 87% of it h...
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NASA's GeneLAB platform expands life science experiments in space
NASA s expanding life science research on the space station with a new collection of investigations called GeneLAB al...
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Solar industry braces for eclipse that will take 35,000 MW off the grid
The European solar energy is bracing for the shock of a solar eclipse on the morning of 20 March 2015 that will last ...
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What Earth’s other ‘moon’ could tell us about the Solar System
You probably didn't know that the Earth has a second 'moon', which orbits our planet on a crazy path called a horsesh...