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NASA: 56,000 mph meteor hits Moon, biggest explosion ever (Video)

NASA is reporting that a meteor smashed into the Moon on March 17, 2013 at a speed of 56,000 mph, sparking the biggest and brightest explosion ever observed and creating a crater 65 feet wide (20 meters).

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International Space Station leaking coolant

Crew members aboard the International Space Station are awaiting word on how to deal with leaking ammonia from an outside cooling system. The six-man crew is not in danger, NASA said.

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Sad, spectacular time-lapse animation shows human impact on Earth

In only 30 years, great glaciers have retreated and a lake that was once the world’s fourth largest has all but dried up. For the first time ever, the human impact on the face of earth as seen from space is on full view, and it is not a pretty picture.

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Mars private colony project: 78,000 apply to live on Mars

Mars One officials announced on May 7 that since the application process opened on April 22, about 78,000 people have applied with the nonprofit organization to become the first human settlers on the Red Planet.

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NASA’s Chandra spots galactic collision

Two spiral galaxies, tethered by the gravitational pull of supermassive black holes at their centers, have collided in space and kicked up a massive cloud of hot dense gas.

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Cassini spacecraft's startling images of massive Saturn hurricane

NASA has released some of the most breathtaking images yet from the Cassini-Huygens Saturn orbiter, showing a gigantic hurricane gyrating around Saturn’s north pole.

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Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat

NASA has signed a new contract to keep American astronauts in space. They will now be paying $424 million more to Russia.

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Want to join Voyager as it enters interstellar space? You can!

Sydney - NASA have come up with a way of following the Voyagers as they depart the Solar System, the first human artifacts ever to do so. It’s an app measuring radiation. You know you’re Out There when the cosmic radiation outweighs the solar radiation.

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NASA’s PhoneSat mission using smartphones as low cost satellites

Wallops Island - Last Sunday NASA launched into Earth orbit three satellites in the shape of three smartphones likely to be the lowest cost satellites ever as part of NASA’s PhoneSat mission.

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Lunar eclipse tonight, Saturn also in view — Live video

Stargazers are preparing for the first eclipse of the 2013 season because Saturn will be also be visible tonight. The eclipse will be the most visible from the Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Western Australia tonight.

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Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy.

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