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Space mission seeks to answer questions about source of life
NASA’s newest space mission hopes to help answer some lofty questions about asteroids.
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Lockheed’s SkyFire will map the moon
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. will build a tiny satellite called SkyFire that will catch a ride on a NASA mission to the moon in 2018.
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‘King of Planets’ gets visitor from Earth
On the nation’s birthday, the “King of the Planets,” mighty Jupiter — the largest planet in the solar system — is due to get its latest visitor from Earth: the Juno spacecraft.
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Mission to Mars: Test success for the rocket that will launch them
Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital ATK and NASA successfully conducted a second test on the massive booster rockets for NASA’s planned missions to Mars.
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Mars is at its closest Monday
The wild weather we had earlier in May has given way to occasionally clear skies so that we can see the Red Planet at its closest and brightest.
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Earth Day 2016 events in the D.C. area
Check out some of the 2016 Earth Day events in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. We also have information on online and social media events.
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Global Astronomy Month launches in April
This April, the worldwide organization Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) is launching its annual Global Astronomy Month.
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Super Tuesday – In the sky, that is
Had your fill of politics for a while? Not to worry, as this Tuesday we have a trio of super sky events to take your mind off of the continuing election year.
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‘X-File’ streaking across Northern Va. sky may have been a ‘fireball’
WASHINGTON — With the X-Files making a reappearance on television screens this week, maybe it’s not surprising that an unidentified flying object was seen streaking across the sky above the Washington, D.C. region Saturday. But…
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Orbital ATK wins new space station delivery contract
For Orbital ATK and SpaceX, it is the second win regarding NASA’s cargo delivery contract.
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Washington Monument captures bright meteor in the sky
WASHINGTON — A bright meteor was seen shooting through the sky Tuesday night and a camera located on the Washington Monument captured its movement. The meteor moved from west to east over West Virginia Tuesday…
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Hubble Telescope Captures Image of Dying Star
(NEW YORK) — A picture is worth a thousand words, and NASA’s Hubble telescope captured the death throes of a dying star, a process it says has taken tens of thousands of years. The photo,…
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Local NASA scientists monitor extreme weather from space
WASHINGTON — So far this year, there’s been severe drought in California and extreme flooding in places like Texas. But scientists right here in the D.C. area are monitoring it all from space. “NASA has…
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Russian Capsule Docks at International Space Station, Delivers Three Crew Members
(NEW YORK) — A Russian capsule bringing three new crew members docked at the International Space Station on early Thursday morning. NASA astronaut Khell Lindgren, Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japan Aerospace…
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Pluto, here we come – finally
WASHINGTON — It is not often that one can personally witness history in the making as it happens. But thanks to the Internet all of us can tune in now to watch a spacefaring voyage…
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