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Traces of Oxygen on the Moon Come from Earth's Plants
Earth's biosphere has bathed the lunar surface for billions of years
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NASA’s Fermi Telescope Spots Record-Breaking Blazars
Powered by supermassive black holes, the intense light from these extreme galaxies began its journey to us when the universe was but a tenth of its present age
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Private Space Station Coming Soon? Company Aiming for 2020 Launch
Work is underway to establish the world's first private, international commercial space station
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50th Anniversary of Apollo 1 Fire: What NASA Learned from the Tragic Accident
January 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the first major, deadly disaster for the U.S. space program
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Cosmic Lenses Show Universe Expanding Surprisingly Fast
Light-bending warps in spacetime reveal a speedy cosmic expansion
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Pluto's Moon Charon Had Its Own, Icy Plate Tectonics
Surface cracks look like seafloor-spreading zones or rift valleys on Earth
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The Story of NASA’s Real “Hidden Figures”
African-American women working behind the scenes as “human computers” were vital to the Space Race
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5 Teams Race to the Moon by Year's End
Finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE have until December 31 to lift off
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Galactic Murder Mystery Solved by Gas Stripping
Astronomers unveil a new mechanism to explain the premature demise of young galaxies
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Apollo Astronaut Eugene Cernan Dies at 82
As commander of the final Apollo mission in 1972, Cernan was the last human to walk on the moon
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The Exoplanet Revolution Turns 25
Astronomers confirmed the first planets beyond our solar system a quarter-century ago
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Ancient Mars Could Have Harbored Life for a Long, Long Time
New data suggest Mars was habitable for perhaps hundreds of millions of years
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John Glenn, First American to Orbit Earth, Dies at 95
The last of NASA’s original seven astronauts to die, Glenn circled the planet three times in 1962
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Saturn Probe Dives Past Rings for the First Time
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft closes in on the planet’s cloud tops
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Neutron Star May Display First Evidence of 80-Year-Old Quantum Prediction
Polarized light suggests the presence of quantum phenomenon first predicted in the 1930s
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Russian Cargo Spacecraft May Be Lost in Space
An uncrewed, robotic Progress spacecraft experienced problems en route to the International Space Station
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Ailing Buzz Aldrin Evacuated from Antarctica
The 86-year-old moonwalker was visiting the South Pole as a tourist when he fell ill, and is reportedly now in stable condition
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Cassini Mission Kicks Off Finale at Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn's rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe’s “grand finale” investigation of the gas giant planet...
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NASA Outlines Planetary Protection Priorities
A new report lists 25 "knowledge gaps" in our understanding of how to avoid cross-contamination between Earth and Mars
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NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres
Scientists think bright spots may be briny material bubbling up into a crater
