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Pluto's famous heart powers icy winds on the dwarf planetPluto's heart-shaped feature, which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered during its epic July 2015 flyby of Pluto, drives atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet, a new study suggests.
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Trump touts Space Force in State of the Union addressSpace got a couple of shout-outs in President Trump's State of the Union address last night (Feb. 4).
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No satellite crash: 2 pieces of space junk whiz safely by each other over PittsburghSatellite operators, and everyone else who wants a safe and sustainable space environment, dodged a bullet Wednesday evening (Jan. 29).
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DARPA scraps XS-1 military space plane project after Boeing drops outBoeing has withdrawn from Experimental Spaceplane, a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program designed to increase the nation's access to space.
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Iran Plane Crash Wreckage Spotted from Space (Satellite Photos)Sharp-eyed satellites have spotted debris from the Ukrainian airliner that went down in Iran early Wednesday morning (Jan. 8).
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The Decade of Mars: How the 2020s May Be a New Era of Red Planet ExplorationThe 2010s saw big advances in Mars exploration, but the new decade may bring even more exciting Red Planet news.
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Satellite Spots Iran Missile Attack Aftermath from SpaceSatellites operated by San Francisco-based company Planet have captured remarkably sharp photos of Iraq's al-Asad airbase, one of the sites hit in last night's (Jan. 7) bombardment.
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Huge New Storm Creates Hexagon at Jupiter's South PoleNASA's Juno probe discovered a giant new storm swirling near Jupiter's south pole last month, a few weeks after pulling off a dramatic death-dodging maneuver.
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Evidence of an Alien Planet Spotted Around a White Dwarf, a Cosmic FirstFor the first time ever, astronomers have spotted evidence of a planet circling a superdense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf, a new study reports.
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Meet Arrokoth, the Most Distant Object Ever ExploredThe most distant object ever explored, Ultima Thule, has a new name, Arrokoth.
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Voyager 2 Reaches Interstellar Space. Here's What the Spacecraft Finds.Humanity's second taste of interstellar space may have raised more questions than it answered.
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The 'Mole' on NASA's Mars Lander Just Popped Out Of Its Hole (and That's Not Good)The mole's up-and-down Mars saga has taken yet another turn.
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NASA Teams Up with $100 Million Breakthrough Listen Project to Search for Intelligent Aliensextraterrestrial-life -
The 1st All-Female Spacewalk Happening Today. Here's How to Watch It LiveNASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are scheduled to begin the first-ever all-female spacewalk today (Oct. 18) at around 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT). Watch it live at Space.com.
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3 Monster Black Holes Are About to CollideThey're at the core of a triple galaxy merger 1 billion light-years from Earth.
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'Alien Megastructure' Star Not Alone. More Mysteriously Dimming Objects Found.extraterrestrial-life -
Giant Volcano on Jupiter Moon Could Erupt Any DayA giant volcano on the Jupiter moon Io should erupt any day now, a new study suggests.
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X-37B Military Space Plane Breaks Record on Latest Mystery MissionThe robotic X-37B has been circling Earth for nearly 719 days on its latest mystery mission, which is known as Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5).
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X-37B Military Space Plane's Latest Mystery Mission Hits 700 DaysThe U.S. Air Force's X-37B military space plane has now been circling Earth for 700 days, just a few weeks shy of the vehicle's spaceflight-duration record.
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3 Physicists Win $3 Million Prize for 'Supergravity' DiscoverySupergravity has inspired physicists for decades and may contain deep truths about the nature of reality.
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SpaceX Rocket Breaks Sound Barrier Twice and Nails Landing in This Amazing VideoWe see the landing from four different angles.
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Why JFK Believed His Bold Moonshot Could Actually HappenThe president had confidence NASA could win the race to the moon, despite the Soviet Union's previous successes.
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Satellite Image Captures a Total Solar Eclipse and a Hurricane in One Awesome ShotThe GOES-West weather satellite captured the gorgeous shot.
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3rd Mysterious Deep-Space Flash Traced to Host GalaxyCosmic explosion was traced to a big galaxy about 7.9 billion light-years away from Earth.
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