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  Watch a 6-hour long spacewalk streamed live from the International Space Station

  By Carl Franzen on April 19, 2013 09:58 am + 17 comments

  NASA is live-streaming a six-hour long spacewalk by two astronauts aboard the International Space Continue reading…

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  NASA's Kepler mission finds the most Earth-like planets yet

  By Adi Robertson on April 18, 2013 03:29 pm + 43 comments

  Scientists have found what they believe are the two most Earth-like exoplanets yet, shedding new Continue reading…

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  Lori Garver of NASA answers questions in Reddit AMA

  By Adi Robertson on April 17, 2013 01:55 pm + 2 comments

  Between Neil deGrasse Tyson's impassioned defense of public-funded space exploration and the wildly Continue reading…

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  Mars One will start recruiting volunteers in July for one-way trip to red planet

  By Chris Welch on April 16, 2013 09:40 am + 106 comments

  Mars One, the ambitious (some might say crazy) project that aims to make the red planet's Continue reading…

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  Amateur space enthusiasts may have discovered missing Soviet Mars lander

  By Amar Toor on April 13, 2013 12:52 pm + 37 comments

  Photos captured from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may provide new clues about a Soviet Continue reading…

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  Russia announces new $50 billion space program

  By Vlad Savov on April 12, 2013 08:20 am + 80 comments

  Russia is celebrating its Day of Cosmonautics in grand fashion today. President Vladimir Putin has Continue reading…

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  Last night, NASA saw the year's biggest solar flare

  By Russell Brandom on April 11, 2013 04:17 pm + 34 comments

  If you noticed a little extra radio interference last night, it wasn't your imagination. At 3:16 AM, Continue reading…

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  NASA will begin work on asteroid capture mission this year

  By Carl Franzen on April 10, 2013 05:48 pm + 22 comments

  A nice side-effect of President Obama releasing his 2014 budget proposal today: a number of federal Continue reading…

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  NASA's plan to capture an asteroid before 2025

  on April 10, 2013 05:37 pm + 1 comments

  NASA in April 2013 released images of its plan to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid, grab it, Continue reading…

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  NASA chief rules out manned Moon mission in the foreseeable future

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 7, 2013 11:58 am + 161 comments

  NASA administrator Charles Bolden has dismissed the idea that the space agency will attempt another Continue reading…