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Scientists find strange mass at moon’s south pole

Researchers have discovered something massive lurking underneath the far side of the moon: a mysterious blob with the mass akin to a pile of metal. The structure, described in a…

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One can now watch NASA build Its next Mars Rover live

A newly installed webcam offers the public a live, bird's-eye view of NASA's Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. You can…

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For $35,000 one can be a tourist on the ISS

NASA is to allow tourists to visit the International Space Station from 2020, priced at $35,000 per night. NASA said it would open the orbiting station to tourism and other…

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The moon is part of Mars, according to Trump

Donald Trump has re-wrote several aspects of the world order. This evening he went one step further and has changed what scientists and astronomers have been saying and studying for…

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The moon is shrinking according to NASA

The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as…

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NASA warns the threat of an Earth-destroying asteroid is no joke

Jim Bridenstine, the head of NASA has warned that it is time to take the threat of an Earth-destroying asteroid seriously. Speaking at the International Academy of Astronautics' 2019…

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First seismic event detected on Mars

NASA's InSight lander detected its first seismic event on Mars. The seismic event was a faint rumble that was picked up by the probe's sensors on the 128th Martian…

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Huge meteor explosion was detected off Russia

The US military detected a huge fireball exploded in the Earth's atmosphere in December but went largely unnoticed. The explosion occurred over the Bering Sea, off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.…

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The Return of the Dragon : SpaceX Dragon makes splashdown

America's new commercial astronaut capsule completed its demonstration flight on Friday with a successful splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The SpaceX Dragon vehicle left the International Space Station (ISS) where…

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Dragon capsule successfully docks on ISS

France 24 reported that NASA and SpaceX confirmed the successful docking of SpaceX's new Dragon capsule on the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. The docking began at 1051 GMT,…

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The US closer to putting astronauts into orbit from home soil

CNN reports on the successful launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. This was a demonstration mission with no crew onboard and the launch puts…

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NASA plans to land humans to the Moon…and stay

NASA is planning to take the "next giant leap in deep space exploration" as it looks to send astronauts to the moon who are able to stay there. The space…

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25 years ago, the first woman piloted the Space Shuttle

25 years ago today, retired Air Force Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut to pilot a Space Shuttle when the NASA Discovery shuttle blasted off. She also later became the…

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On this day 33 years ago, The Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy took place

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary…

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Wednesday Morning Briefing, Newspaper Review and News Portal Roundup

Good morning New Year brings with it a new improved morning briefing service. In our briefing we review main global portals and agencies, the local newspapers front page stories and…

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Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another planet

Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another world. Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter four billion miles away, flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland, received word…

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A Turkish-U.S. citizen and former NASA scientist jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges plans to file an appeal

A Turkish-U.S. citizen and former NASA scientist jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges plans to file an appeal to Turkey’s top court after a lower appeals court reduced his sentence…

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A closer look to planet Mars surface

Ever thought how Mars looks like? NASA's own Curiosity tries to address our curiosity as a 360 panorama of its current location on Mars was sent and released today. NASA's…

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Astronauts not in danger after leak in from tiny hole in International Space Stations

Astronauts scrambled Thursday to patch a tiny hole that was allowing air to leak from the Russian side of the International Space Station. NASA and Russian space officials stressed the…

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NASA launches first visit to the Sun

CNN/NASA/EPA: Humanity's first visit to a star began this weekend. NASA's Parker Solar Probe will explore the sun's atmosphere in a mission that launched early Sunday. This is the agency's first…

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Organic matter found on Mars

The Guardian reports that Nasa’s veteran Curiosity rover has found complex organic matter buried and preserved in ancient sediments that formed a vast lake bed on Mars more than 3bn…

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“Houston we have a problem” – Astronaut forgets SD card for his Go Pro at home. He only realises while in space.

You're 400 kilometres away from home, namely in the space. You turn on your Go Pro to take once in a life time photo. You press the button and the…

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NASA will send a helicopter to Mars – a first

NASA said on Friday it will send a small helicopter to Mars as part of the U.S. space agency’s 2020 mission to place a next-generation rover on the Martian surface,…

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