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BBC News
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Nasa says its Phoenix spacecraft is in good health after making the first successful landing in the north polar region of Mars.
Images sent back show a flat valley floor with polygonal features that give the ground a "paved" appearance.
These are be..
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MSNBC
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Sunday's touchdown was the first successful soft landing on Mars since the twin Viking landers touched down in 1976. NASA’s twin rovers, which successfully landed on Mars four years ago, used a combination of parachutes and cushioned air bags to bounce..
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CNN
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NASA says it is extending the international Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years. The space agency announced the extension Tuesday. Since 2004, the unmanned probe has beamed back about 140,000 images. Its prime missio..
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BBC News
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Nasa's Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured two stunning images of the Red Planet's major moon, Phobos.
Stickney Crater, a 9km (5.5 mile) -wide depression that is the largest feature on Phobos dominates the pictures.
The images also show a..
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MSNBC
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NASA managers on Tuesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff in two days on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
Launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for 2:45..
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BBC News
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Nasa is very likely to support plans to despatch a British probe to the Moon, BBC News has learned.
The proposal to send a unmanned mission called Moonlite into orbit around the Moon has the backing of those planning Nasa's own return to the Moon.
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BBC News
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The US space agency Nasa has delayed launch of the Atlantis shuttle until 2008 because of a persistent problem with a sensor on a fuel tank.
Two attempts to launch the shuttle have been cancelled since Thursday, and only a few days remained for launch..
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BBC News
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Nasa has released details of its strategy for sending a human crew to Mars within the next few decades.
The US space agency envisages despatching a "minimal" crew on a 30-month round trip to the Red Planet in a 400,000kg (880,000lb) spacecraft.
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BBC News
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The hole in space shuttle Endeavour's underside will not be repaired before it returns to Earth, Nasa has said.
Agency officials took almost a week to decide whether to send astronauts outside to repair the 9cm (3.5in) gash.
They had been worried th..
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BBC News
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Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's (ISS) orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, Nasa officials say.
The station's three crew and seven visiting shuttle astronauts are not at any immediate risk; the ISS has..
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CNN
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Since the beginning of the year, NASA has endured an astronaut's arrest in a bizarre love triangle, a workplace murder-suicide and a freak hail storm at the launch pad.
What it hasn't had is a space shuttle launch.
NASA hoped to change all that with..
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ABC News
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Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.
With just 10 more..
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New Scientist
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If it seems Canadians weigh less than their American neighbours, they do – but not for the reasons you might think. A large swath of Canada actually boasts lower gravity than its surroundings.
Researchers have puzzled for years over whether this was..
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MSNBC
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New images beamed back by a NASA spacecraft that flew by Jupiter earlier this year are giving scientists their most detailed glimpse yet of the gas giant and its moons.
On Feb. 28, New Horizons passed within 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) o..
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BBC News
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Early results from a Nasa mission designed to test two key predictions of Albert Einstein show the great man was right about at least one of them.
It will take another eight months to determine whether he got the other correct say scientists analysing..
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NASA paid 26.6 million U.S. dollars to the families of seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in a secret settlement, which was covered for more than two years, according to media reports Monday.
The space agency recruited form..
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www.jpl.nasa.gov
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An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has ap..
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MSNBC
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Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired by NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was arrested for attempted kidnapping in Florida, the space agency said.
Nowak, 43, was arrested Feb. 5 after police said she drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando wearing an adul..
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Yahoo News
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A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday.
"There should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until the technology to cap..
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Huffington Post
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That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections. It turns out NASA has a detaile..
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