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Asteroid 2012 DA14 set to skim past Earth
The Earth will dodge a cosmic bullet this week when a 50-meter wide asteroid skims past our planet. The...
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Orion Nebula is home to nearby black hole
The Orion Nebula is a familiar sight to amateur astronomers as one of the brightest gas clouds in the...
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NASA probe’s stunning new view of Saturn
We have already been spoilt for eye candy from NASA’s Cassini mission to the planet Saturn. But...
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Aliens could inhabit world with two suns
A newly discovered solar system is intriguing astronomers because it has two suns – and one of...
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Dinosaurs . . . on a NASA space base!
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat was clearly delighted to come up with the title for the second episode...
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NASA crew trains for mission to asteroid
Five NASA volunteers have begun rehearsing for an expedition to an asteroid. The crew of scientists and...
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NASA’s Curiosity blasts Mars with ray-gun
In The War Of The Worlds, H G Wells’ scifi classic of the 19th century, machines sent by Martians...
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NASA’s Curiosity is safely down on Mars!
NASA pulled off the most daring space landing ever today by successfully placing their one-ton rover...
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Astronomers discover the planet from hell
Astronomers using a NASA space telescope have discovered an alien planet smaller than Earth orbiting...
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How NASA’s Curiosity will land on Mars
NASA are counting down to their most ambitious landing on Mars yet with the arrival of Curiosity next...
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NASA probe alert over Pluto’s new moon
The Hubble Space Telescope has found another new member of Pluto’s family of satellites, bringing...
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Lunar crater has huge supplies of water ice
NASA has discovered fresh evidence that a crater near the Moon’s south pole is packed with frozen...













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