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Nov 8, 2012

Mile-Wide Asteroid Photographed By NASA (Photo)

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A mile-wide asteroid has been photographed by a team of NASA scientists as it moves silently millions of miles from Earth, international news sites reported on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. According to reports, NASA‘s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California was used by astronomers in NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to capture three new radar [...]


Oct 8, 2012

SpaceX launch: Dragon spacecraft successfully launched to International Space Station (Video)

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The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, October 7, 2012, as shown in the video below. The CRS-1 mission marks the first of at least 12 SpaceX missions to the ISS for the cargo resupply mission with NASA. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launch Image Credit: [...]


Sep 29, 2012

Signs of water on Mars discovered by NASA via rover Curiosity (Photo)

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Updated: October 10, 2012 2:50 p.m. Read Shiny object on Mars spotted by NASA rover Curiosity (Photo) NASA‘s Curiosity rover mission reportedly discovered possible signs of water on Mars while it was driving on the Red Planet. Scientists are now studying the clues, which were seen in the rocks between the Gale Crater and a [...]


Sep 20, 2012

Farthest galaxy ever spotted by cosmic lens, scientists claim

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The so-called current farthest galaxy known as MACS1149-JD has been recently spotted with the help of cosmic lens, which astronomers claim to be the current earliest known and most distant galaxy ever identified. According to Space.com on Wednesday, September 19, 2012, this recently discovered galaxy, which was believed have existed when the universe was about [...]


Aug 29, 2012

Kepler-47 system: Two planets with two suns discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission

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NASA‘s Kepler mission announced on on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 its first time discovery of two planets with two suns, which is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus; which is almost a year after a planet with two suns called Kepler-16b was discovered. According to NASA on its official website that day, astronomers [...]


Aug 29, 2012

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity beams Will.i.am song “Reach for the Stars” back to Earth

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Will.i.am‘s song “Reach for the Stars” was transmitted to Mars and was beamed back to Earth via NASA‘s Mars rover Curiosity, which is first time in the history. Will.i.am, speaking at NASA Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As noted by NASA on its official website on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, Will.i.am‘s song “Reach for the Stars” was [...]


Aug 26, 2012

Neil Armstrong dies, first man on the moon passes away at 82

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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at the age of 82. Armstrong, who landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins via Apollo 11, underwent heart surgery this month, and his family announced his death on his [...]


Aug 10, 2012

NASA lander explodes, Project Morpheus moon lander fails during test flight (Video)

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A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lander exploded on Thursday, August 9, 2012 during its first test flight at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), as shown in the video below. NASA moon lander on fire Image Credit: NASA video According to a statement by NASA on its official website that day, the unmanned Project [...]


Aug 7, 2012

Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA’s Mohawk guy goes viral after Mars rover Curiosity landing (Photo)

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Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA‘s so-called Mohawk guy, as shown in the photo below, has gone viral right after the Mars rover landing on Monday, August 6, 2012; as tons of Twitter users were amazed with his hair style and could not help but voicing out their observations online. Some of them can be read below. As [...]


Aug 6, 2012

Mars rover Curiosity lands successfully, NASA releases first images of Red Planet (Photo)

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Updated: August 7, 2012 2:45 a.m. Read Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA’s Mohawk guy goes viral after Mars rover Curiosity landing (Photo) Mars rover Curiosity has landed successfully at around 10:31 p.m. PDT on Sunday, August 5, 2012 (1:31 a.m. EDT, Monday, August 6), with NASA releasing its first photo of Gale Crater of the Red Planet, [...]