Not very long ago, space scientists expected that if other stars had solar systems, they’d be much like our own — small, rocky planets (like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) orbiting close to their host star, with gas giants (think of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus... full story ![]()

Can't beat that view. SpaceX tweeted this photo today showing its Dragon capsule berthed to the International Space Station. Earth is beautiful every day, and you can't beat a view like this. NASA has lots of views just like it. Along with their beauty, they can also tell us something about how we are changing our planet. The space agency celebrates Earth Month, not just...
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NASA's super-sophisticated Kepler space telescope is in jeopardy of not fulfilling its mission, 40 million miles from Earth, to identify thousands of potential alien, Earth-like worlds in the galaxy.
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HOPE Festival Dedicated to Arnie Neptune — Timbered Lake to Perform For the past eighteen years Penobscot elder, Arnie Neptune, opened the HOPE Festival with a blessing for honoring our connections to the earth and to each other. This year the free festival, held on Saturday, April 27th from 11:00 ...
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A suitcase-sized satellite will be launched on Monday to help in our search for deadly asteroids. The launch comes just two weeks after a dramatic meteorite impact in Russia injured 1,200 people. The Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite is being launched by the Canadian Space Agency. NEOSat will try to find and track huge rocks hurtling through space that could endanger...
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An incredible video shot from a space craft appears to show the moment that a massive ejection of particles from the sun flew directly into the path of a comet - and the Earth. The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory shot the clip of super-hot material being blown from the Sun in a coronal mass ejection - a CME. In the clip, the CME appears to fly into the path of the...
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A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan, returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station.
lohud.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan, returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station.
foxnews.com (2 months and 5 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan, returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station....
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AP A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Saturday morning on the steppes of Kazakhstan, safely returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station.
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With the small near-Earth asteroid flyby happening on February 15 as well as the meteorite that broke apart over Russia, space objects crashing into Earth is a hot topic. Luckily scientists have created a hypothetical asteroid defense system using lasers.
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