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Five reasons the world won't end in 2012
Pointing to the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar on Dec. 21, 2012, many doomsday believers think that life as we know it on Earth has entered it's final year. NASA begs to differ.
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Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012
What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
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The 9 weirdest things ever flown on the Space Shuttle
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Hurricane Irene video by NASA astronaut
Hurricane Irene was captured on video and in photos from the International Space Station by US astronaut Ron Garan.
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Jodie Foster helps in search for alien civilizations
Jodie Foster, who portrayed a scientist working for the SETI Institute in the 1997 science-fiction film 'Contact,' has donated to help revive the ailing project, which was forced to close some of its radio telescopes earlier this year.
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Pitch black: The mystery of a darkest planet ever seen
Darkest planet ever discovered is a gas giant but reflects only 1 percent of the light falling on it. Scientists speculate an unknown chemical or gas is absorbing light.
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Pentagon loses contact with unmanned glider moving at Mach 20
The Pentagon tested its hypersonic Falcon HTV-2 vehicle Thursday, losing contact with the craft as it hurtled over the Pacific Ocean.
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Perseid meteor shower: Tips for watching the biggest shower of the year
Perseid meteor shower watchers will be dodging a full moon at the shower's peak on Friday and Saturday. Here are some tips for watching the Perseid meteor shower.
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Solar storms: New solar flare is largest in years
Solar storms have been picking up since 2008. A new flare Tuesday is the biggest in several years and is part of a pattern of solar storms scheduled to last until 2020.
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Perseid meteor shower: Best times to see the 'shooting stars'
Perseid meteor shower fans should go out Wednesday and Thursday a.m. to avoid the glare from the moon. The Perseid meteor shower peak is Aug. 13.
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Did the Earth once have two moons?
A new study of the far side of the moon suggests that the Earth once had a tiny second moon, which collided with the bigger one.
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Oxygen molecules discovered in space. Do astronauts really need space suits?
Of course they do. Don't be an idiot.
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Trojan asteroid discovered leading Earth's orbit
Trojan asteroid: NASA has discovered that Earth has an asteroid companion traveling just ahead of our planet as it orbits the sun. This so-called Trojan asteroid could serve as a stepping stone to celestial objects farther afield.
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Pluto moon discovery hints at future surprises for NASA probe
Pluto moon: The tiny new moon — announced July 20 and called P4 for now — brings the number of known Pluto satellites to four.
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Shuttle Atlantis releases tiny satellite before returning to Earth
Shuttle Atlantis put PicoSat, a US military satellite, into orbit Wednesday morning. See video below of space shuttle Atlantis leaving the International Space Station for the last time.
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The 9 weirdest things ever flown on the Space Shuttle
When NASA's space shuttles launch into orbit, they don't just carry astronauts and supplies into the final frontier. There's a lot of other weird stuff that makes the out-of-this-world journey, too. NASA's last space shuttle mission will launch Friday, July 8 on the Atlantis orbiter to deliver spare parts to the International Space Station. The mission will be the 135th and last flight for the program, which began in 1981. But over the course of 30 years, the space shuttles have flown some peculiar objects into orbit. The list of odd stuff that flew aboard the shuttles is a long one, and includes the Olympic torch, a replica of the golden spike from the First Transcontinental Railroad, and rocks from the top of Mount Everest and the surface of the moon, just to name a few. Here nine recent space oddities carried into orbit on NASA shuttles:
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Atlantis launch successful, historic final shuttle mission underway
Atlantis launch: Despite a bleak forecast of thunderstorms and clouds, the shuttle beat the weather in a stunning midday launch, sailing into the sky on one final voyage.
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Asteroid 2011 MD buzzes Earth, nearer than some satellites
Asteroid 2011 MD, reached its closest point to Earth just after 1 p.m. EDT, when it crept within 7,500 miles of Earth before whipping away again like a slingshot.
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Moon dust from Apollo 11 mission discovered at St. Louis auction house
Moon dust that had returned to earth from the historic flight that brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon was set to be auctioned off at a St. Louis auction house, say NASA officials.
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NASA's Messenger probe beams back amazing images of Mercury
NASA's Messenger probe, the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury, has already taken more than 20,000 images.
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Black hole fires beam of energy at Earth while swallowing star
Black hole fires beams at Earth while destroying star: a massive black hole has been discovered devouring a star, causing the star to shoot beams of energy at Earth. The event is thought to occur only once every 100 million years.
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Asteroid Vesta: surface of huge asteroid has mysterious dark spot
Asteroid Vesta has been coming into focus as NASA's Dawn probe comes in for close-up photos, but a mysterious dark spot has scientists scratching their heads.
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Lunar eclipse, first of 2011, occurs Weds.
Lunar eclipse: The event is the first lunar eclipse of 2011 and one of two total lunar eclipses this year.
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Japanese astronaut to grow cucumbers in space
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa plans to plant and grow cucumbers aboard the International Space Station to study how future space travelers can harvest their own food.
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Three eclipses start with midnight eclipse of the sun
Three eclipses will happen over the next month. As rare as that is, it all starts with another rarity - a midnight eclipse of the sun.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour: See the last flyby early Tuesday morning
The Space Shuttle Endeavour will be visible in the night sky early Tuesday morning. When can you see Endeavor, on it's last mission, and where should you look?
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Space shuttle Endeavour crew launch their own Star Trek poster
Space shuttle Endeavour crew members are big enough Star Trek fans to pose for a Trekkie poster, modeled after the 2009 J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie.
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Huge asteroid to buzz Earth in November
On November 8 and 9, the quarter-mile-wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will zoom past the Earth, coming within about 200,000 miles, a distance closer than our moon.
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