‘The World at Night’ can be brightly beautiful – but there’s a dark side, too
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Are the images featured in The World at Night’s annual “Earth and Sky” photography contest meant to celebrate the wonders of the night sky, or draw attention to the worries about the night sky? They’re meant to do both, says astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi.
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Space station chief returns home a star
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spent his five months in orbit with songs, snapshots, and social media. As he travels back Earth, his son reflects on what’s next for the sudden celebrity.
WATCH LIVE: Commander Chris Hadfield and crew return to earth aboard Soyuz spacecraft
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Spacewalkers hopeful new pump control fixes space station coolant leak
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Two spacewalking astronauts may have fixed an ammonia leak outside the International Space Station Saturday, perhaps bringing the outpost’s vital cooling system back up to full strength.
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‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse puts on a dazzling show in Australian Outback
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SYDNEY — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.
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Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
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Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds — but can you imagine documenting almost three decades’ worth of all that change, across most of our planet’s land mass? A team of imaging experts, computer scientists and journalists did. Now they’ve unveiled the result: a globa database of zoomable, animated satellite views known as Timelapse.
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78,000 apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars
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Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteading on Mars.
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See a star-spawning space cloud glow!
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An amazing new photo from a telescope in Chile reveals a cloud of star-producing gas and dust glowing brightly 5,000 light-years from Earth.
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Six years after zero-G flight, Stephen Hawking is still set on space trip
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It’s been six long years since world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking got a taste of weightlessness during a zero-G airplane flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center — but he still wants to feel the real deal aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
Should Stephen Hawking should go into space or is it too risky?
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Hubble telescope catches an early glimpse of ‘Comet of the Century’
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Comet ISON, the long-traveling iceball that skywatchers hope will turn into the “Comet of the Century,” takes on a fuzzy glow in an image captured two weeks ago by the Hubble Space Telescope and unveiled on Tuesday.
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Images from outer space highlight the fragility - and the resilience - of our beautiful planet.
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Super-Earth search: Newfound ‘water worlds’ could be just right for life
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NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting probe has identified two potentially habitable planets only a little bigger than Earth, circling a star that’s 1,200 light-years away. The planets could conceivably be covered by a global ocean, and they may well lead the growing list of alien worlds that can host life as we know it.
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Astronaut celebrates St. Patrick’s Day in space
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You don’t need gravity to have a great St. Patrick’s Day, just ask astronaut Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station.
Hadfield, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, is celebrating the Irish holiday in orbit by wearing a green shirt and a bright green bow tie Sunday while photographing Ireland from space.
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Got $7,800? You can experience zero-gravity on this European flight.
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Civilian passengers of the Airbus A330 Zero-G, who are not astronauts nor scientists, enjoy weightlessness, on March 15, during the first zero gravity flight for paying passengers in Europe.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield assumes command of space station
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield took the helm of the International Space Station on Wednesday, marking only the second time in the outpost’s 12-year history that command has been turned over to someone who is not American or Russian.
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Here we go again: Big asteroid set to buzz Earth
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A newly discovered asteroid the size of a football field will cruise through Earth’s neighborhood this weekend, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet.
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