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Dec 13

Virgin Galactic tourist rocket ship reaches space in test

By John Antczak, Associated Press

Thursday's supersonic flight takes Virgin Galactic closer to turning the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism into reality. The company aims to take paying customers on the six-passenger rocket, which is about the size of an executive jet.

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Dec 13

You may not even need a telescope this weekend to see this comet

By Shannon Schmoll, The Conversation

Comet 46P/Wirtanen is expected to make an appearance Dec. 14 to 19 that may well be visible even to the naked eye. Photo by Suchart Kuathan/via Getty Images…

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Dec 03

WATCH: NASA’s Osiris-Rex reaches Bennu, in mission to bring home asteroid dust

By Nsikan Akpan

Part pioneer and part dirt collector, Osiris-Rex will spend the next year or so looking for a spot to capture pieces of the asteroid before heading back to Earth.

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Nov 26

WATCH: NASA’s InSight lands on Mars after 6-month journey through space

By Julia Griffin

The first NASA lander to explore the interior of another planet successfully landed on Mars Monday.

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Oct 25

Hazardous space junk is piling up. Can this satellite help?

By Vicky Stein

More than a half a million pieces of trash whiz at more than 17,000 miles per hour around the planet, threatening the lives of astronauts on the International Space Station and the functionality of satellites scattered across low Earth orbit.

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Oct 11

U.S., Russian astronauts safe after emergency landing

By Dmitry Lovetsky, Associated Press

The rescue capsule automatically jettisoned from the booster and went into a ballistic descent, landing at a sharper than normal angle and subjecting the crew to heavy gravitational force.

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Sep 23

This beaming sculpture will shine from earth’s orbit — and probe the politics of space

By Corinne Segal

Trevor Paglen's sculpture "Orbital Reflector" is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in mid-November, raising questions about who controls space and why.

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Sep 11

Meet the scientist behind these stunning images of Jupiter

By Vicky Stein

Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a planetary scientist, has been photographing celestial bodies for decades. But for the Juno mission, her collaborators are citizen scientists.

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Aug 23

WATCH: Pence says Space Force will be established by 2020

By Erica R. Hendry

The vice president is scheduled to speak at 1:45 p.m. EDT. Watch his remarks here.

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Aug 15

These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American

New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.

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