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Fire Breaks Out in Converted Saturn V Stages at Rocket Center
A fire broke out at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, damaging an out-of-use building that was…
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A long, exhausting hike was worth the effort for astrophotographer Justin Majeczky who captured this stunning image of the Milky…
Giant Comets Periodically Smash Earth, Scientists Say
Giant comets in the planetary fringes of the solar system may pose a greater threat to Earth than do asteroids,…
The Biggest Spaceflight Moments of 2015
NASA spacecraft got up close and personal with two separate dwarf planets, and two private spaceflight companies pulled off rocket…
Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Stretched-Out Surface Revealed in New Photos
New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its closest-ever dip toward the surface, show…
Image of the Day: “Previously Unknown Part of the Milky Way”
This past fall, astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky…
Drone delivery could win in the suburbs but trucks with many packages could be lower cost to high rise apartments and offices
Drone deliveries look like the future: unmanned quadcopters rapidly delivering packages to our doors, eliminating both wait times and the…
Boulders on a Martian Landslide
The striking feature in this image, acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014,…
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