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Earth-snapping Suomi gets its kit out for the labs
After popular demand NASA's Suomi NPP satellite has beamed down another "Blue Marble" vision of the Earth in high definition.…
Aims to build the safest spacecraft ever
SpaceX has confirmed the successful test of its SuperDraco rocket engine, which will form the backbone of safety and landing systems for its Dragon spacecraft.…
GJ 667C is practically a next-door neighbor
While the Kepler mission turns up its ever-growing crop of exoplanets, a group of astronomers has announced an exciting find closer to home: looking towards Scorpius, there’s a super-Earth-sized planet just 22 light-years distant, with a habitable-zone orbit.…
Pale, rounded bounties probed
US space agency NASA has released a new video of the back side of the Moon, filmed by its newly-arrived duo of GRAIL lunar probe craft. Here it is:…
Space probe apparently not built to fly in space
Russian space boffins have come up with a new reason to explain why duff Martian probe Phobos-Grunt fell out of the sky - cosmic rays.…
The case of the missing oxygen
The latest data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe has found a curious disparity in the distribution of some of the key elements of our solar system, notably why there is so much oxygen in it.…
Cram up for tough Web2.0 rocket quiz
NASA has created its first ever multiplayer online game, Space Race Blastoff - and it's now available on Facebook.…
One of three ways world's top boffins will save us from planet killers
A new international consortium has been set up to figure out what Earthlings could do if an asteroid came hurtling towards the planet on a path of imminent destruction.…
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