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TRAPPIST-1: How Long Would It Take to Fly to 7-Planet System?The discovery of seven Earth-size planets around a nearby star, TRAPPIST-1, is certainly exciting news. But what would it take to visit one of these potentially Earth-like alien worlds?
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Winter Snowstorm Battering Northeast US Seen from SpaceAs a winter storm blew over the northeastern United States today, a weather-monitoring satellite caught the whole storm on camera from space.
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SpaceX's Elon Musk Seeks Twitter Help to Change Trump Immigration Order -
Beyond Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Heads to Next AdventureNearly two years after its historic encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting ready for its next big adventure in the icy outskirts of the solar system.
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Astronaut's View of the Rocky Mountains from Space Is Just AmazingAstronaut Thomas Pesquet just took "Rocky Mountain High" to a whole new level with this incredible photo of the Rocky Mountains taken from the International Space Station.
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Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are IncredibleBehold! The European Space Agency's new Mars orbiter just sent back its first high-resolution images of the Red Planet, and the view is amazing.
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Weird 'Egg Rock' Meteorite Found on MarsLast week, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf ball-sized object that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks typically seen on Mars.
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You Can 3D Print Your Own Mini Universe -
Orbital ATK's Antares Rocket Returns to Flight with Gorgeous Night Cargo Launch -
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists ThoughtMore than a trillion galaxies are lurking in the depths of space, a new census of galaxies in the observable universe has found — 10 times more galaxies than were previously thought to exist
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US Will Send People to Mars by 2030s, Barack Obama SaysPresident Barack Obama wants the U.S. space program to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and eventually into deep space, he wrote in a CNN op-ed published today (Oct. 11).
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Pluto's 'Heart' Hints at Deep, Underground OceanA new simulation of how Pluto got its "heart" reveals that the dwarf planet most likely has a deep ocean beneath its surface.
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Giant Green Space Blob Mystery SolvedA giant blob of gas and dust far off in the universe mysteriously glows bright green, and astronomers have finally figured out why.
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A Bus-Size Asteroid Just Gave Earth a Close Shave -
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Sprawling Blue Cut Wildfire in California Spied by NASA SatellitesAs a wildfire blazes through a mountain pass in Southern California, two NASA satellites were able to snap photos of the smoke from space.
