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Sun's 2013 Solar Storm Peak Expected to Hit Century Low
The sun's 11-year solar weather cycle is expected to hit its peak in 2013, but may fizzle compare...
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New Year's Eve Sun Blast Time-Lapsed By NASA | Video
An incredible swath of plasma erupted from the Sun on December 31st, 2012. This video, compiled f...
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Image of the Day
Three images put together show the sun in an unusual way.
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Quadrantid Meteor Shower Wows Stargazers
Many folks braved the cold to watch the shower's peak.
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Mars Meteorite May Be Missing Link to Red Planet's Past
A Martian meteorite that landed in Morocco in 2011 is revealing the Red Planet's secrets
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Neil Armstrong's First Words: One Small Fib or Giant Leap b...
Were the famed astronaut's first words on the moon scripted or ad-libbed?
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Human Spaceflight
Mission Milestones: 2013's Space Exploration An...
The coming year brings numerous big anniversaries for major space history events.
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Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step': Controversy Erupts Over Moonwalk Quote
Europe Tackling Big Space Projects in 2013
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Private Spaceflight
Private Space Travel to Make Giant Leaps in 2013
Private spacecraft from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and others are poised for major test in 2013.
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Experimental Private Rocket Makes Highest Test Hop Yet
Fit for Flight? Space Tourism Lacks Medical Standards
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Science & Astronomy
Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Abs...
We have entered a strange realm of "negative temperatures," which are hotter than infinity.
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How Early Earth Kept Warm Despite Faint Sun
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Search For Life
100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Ga...
A new study suggests planets are extremely common throughout the galaxy.
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First 'Alien Earth' Will Be Found in 2013, Experts Say
Potentially Habitable Planet Detected Around Nearby Star
NASA Eyes Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
Skywatching
Quadrantid Meteor Shower Tonight: How to Watch ...
NASA will webcast live views of the Quadrantid meteor shower tonight through Friday (Jan. 2 to 4).
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Earth Is Closest to the Sun for 2013 Today
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Tech
Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?
A philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might actually be living inside a computer-genera...
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Hackers Steal Data from Pentagon, NASA, Federal Reserve
Global GPS Infrastructure 'Vulnerable to Attack'
Satellites Could Detect Rogue Nuclear Tests
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Night Sky: Visible Planets, Moon Phases & Events, January 2013
Stuff out there that you can easily see this month.
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Moon Phase...
Find out the current moon phases. The moon cycles through eigh...
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SpaceShipTwo is expected to take paying customers into space a...
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take paying passengers in...
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Richard Branson, through his company Virgin Galactic, plans to...
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SpaceX's F...
Falcon 9 lifts SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the ISS.
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VIDEO
Year of Astronomy Photos Returns Spectacular Vi...
John Chumack (galacticimages.com) pointed his cameras to the skies on several occasions in 2012 and delivered amazing shots of solar activity, galaxies, comets, the moon and more.
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52 Quadrantid Meteors Snapped By...
An asteroid known as 2003 EH1 litters the Earth...
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Planet's 'Umbilical Cord' To Sta...
Streams of gas surrounding a young star are bei...
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Sun Erupts With New Year's Eve F...
The Sun helps ring in 2013 with two massive bla...
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January Skywatching: Ancient Con...
The first month of 2013 features the Auriga con...
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Winter Storm 'Draco' Seen From S...
The NOAA Goes-13 satellite captured the winter ...
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Jupiter and The Moon Converge On...
The gas giant and Earth's Moon will provide som...
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Europe Launches Major British Mi...
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Highest Altitude Supercomputer I...
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'Straggler Stars' Gravitate to A...
Bright blue 'straggler' stars, with more mass t...
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