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Christa McAuliffe: How her legacy lives on
Christa McAuliffe was never able to teach from space, but her lesson plans, now updated to reflect current technology, remain available to all.
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List of planets spotted outside our solar system now tops 500
Inaccurate? Possibly. Arbitrary? Definitely. But nonetheless, on Nov. 19, the list of confirmed exoplanets topped 500, and that's still worth celebrating.
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Humor website conducts first Rickroll in space
Using a weather balloon equipped with a camera and speakers, the comedy website Zug played Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video some 16 miles above the Earth's surface.
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Russian companies plan to construct commercial space station
Two Russian companies have announced plans to collaborate on constructing a commercial space station, creating a second destination in low-Earth orbit.
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NASA considering rail gun launch system
Rail guns, which use a magnetic field to accelerate a mass to high speeds, are being looked at by NASA as a potential space launch system.
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Exoplanets - as many of seven of them - spotted in newfound star system
Exoplanets abound in the orbits around the star HD 10180. European astronomers have spotted at least five planets, with evidence that two others may be present.
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Comet struck Neptune 200 years ago, researchers find
A comet struck the planet Neptune some 200 years ago, leaving a blotch of carbon monoxide in the upper atmosphere.
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Climate change somehow manages to mess things up in outer space
Climate change emissions are cooling the upper atmosphere, decreasing atmospheric density and causing space junk to remain in orbit longer.
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Israel launches spy satellite
Launched on Israel's Shavit launch vehicle Tuesday, the Ofeq 9 spy satellite is capable of monitoring Iran's nuclear program.
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What's more powerful than a supermassive black hole? A supermassive black hole that spins backwards.
Supermassive black holes that have a retrograde spin might produce more ferocious jets of gas, a new theory suggests.
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Amazing video: A tour of the International Space Station
In this video, Capt. Barry Wilmore floats from one end of the International Space Station to the other.
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Once a heretic, Copernicus now re-buried with Catholic honors
Thanks to DNA analysis and radar, the remains of 16th-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus have been identified. Now, the man whose ideas were once considered heresy is now being interred with special honors in a Catholic ceremony.
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Space shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on last scheduled flight (VIDEO)
On its last mission the space shuttle Atlantis will bring 3,000 pounds of US supplies to the International Space Station, as well as a Russian module.
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'Supermassive' black hole gets flung from galaxy
Astronomers have possibly detected a black hole more massive than a billion suns being ejected from a distant galaxy at high speed.
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Bizarre hole in space: How did it get there?
The mysterious hole in space seems to have been blasted into the side of a nebula by jets of gas from young stars.
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