Israel launched a new spy satellite into orbit from a launchpad in the center of the country early Monday morning,…
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Space bully: Jupiter may have kicked giant planet out of its orbit
It seems that some planets just can’t play nicely together. Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered that Jupiter…
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Space weather: Cloudy with a chance of diamond rain
Diamonds, the saying goes, are a girl’s best friend and Jupiter and Saturn just might be filled to the brim…
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Satellite spies asteroid Toutanis tumbling through space
A new video captures the giant asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbling through space on its flyby of Earth earlier this week.…
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A high-tech robotic instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile has seen its first light, and the results bode…
Read More‘Virgin’ comet may hit Mars in 2014
A newfound comet is apparently on course to have an exceedingly close call with the planet Mars in October 2014,…
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Ancient Mars was once covered in water — and MAVEN will find out where it went
Where did all the water go? Billions of years ago when the Red Planet was young, it likely had a…
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NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser
Call it the ultimate in high art: Using a well-timed laser, NASA scientists have beamed a picture of Leonardo da…
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Voyager 1 escapes sun, enters new region of space
It keeps going … and going … and going …. After cruising the “magnetic highway” that rings the very outskirts…
Read MoreMysterious ‘UFO’ over Kentucky explained
Google, it is cheekily said, knows everything even, apparently, the origin of an unidentified flying object. On Oct. 16, 2012,…
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