# nasa - Thursday 16 May, 2013
The planet-hunting telescope is 40 million miles from Earth and searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
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# nasa - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The astronaut bid farewell to the station yesterday with a David Bowie song – but now he’s back on earth.
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# nasa - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Six-and-a-half hours of work was needed to repair a pump which is thought to have caused the ammonia leak on board the ISS.
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# nasa - Friday 10 May, 2013
Officials are now considering whether to send ISS crew members into open space to fix the leak.
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# nasa - Monday 6 May, 2013
This is what happens to their spinning skills when they light up a doobie.
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# nasa - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Saturn is now the only place besides Earth, the moon and Jupiter where scientists have been able to observe meteor impacts as they occur.
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# nasa - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
The unfortunate sketch was found on the NASA website.
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# nasa - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Scientists are using the data in their efforts to predict space weather.
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# nasa - Saturday 20 April, 2013
We’re not the only good place to hang out in the ‘habitable zone’.
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# nasa - Thursday 11 April, 2013
NASA has all the science behind the phenomenon.
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# nasa - Monday 8 April, 2013
It’s not exactly food porn.
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# nasa - Friday 5 April, 2013
For much of April, the sun blocks the line of sight between Earth and Mars, making it difficult for engineers to send instructions or hear from spacecraft Curiosity and Opportunity.
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# nasa - Thursday 4 April, 2013
The centre in Brussels is part of wider system that tracks objects in space that threaten to collide with the Earth.
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# nasa - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The US space agency described a report published today as “premature”.
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# nasa - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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Nasa Curiosity Rover, which is living on the Red Planet, has taken samples of rock for analysis by scientists back home.
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# nasa - Sunday 3 March, 2013
“We are a long way from the Terminator, or the Matrix” says Nasa chief historian.
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# nasa - Friday 1 March, 2013
Three of the capsule’s four thrusters failed to fire up en route to the space station.
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# nasa - Thursday 28 February, 2013
Many of the finer details of the Inspiration Mars project – initially funded by the world’s first space tourist Dennis Tito – have yet to be worked out but it is hoped it will allow for zero-gravity sex.
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# nasa - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Earth, meet your new baby cousin: Kepler 37b.
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# nasa - Friday 15 February, 2013
♫ I don’t wanna close my eyes, I don’t wanna fall asleep… ♫
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# nasa - Monday 11 February, 2013
NASA said the asteroid will not hit earth but it will make the closest ever approach for an object so large.
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# nasa - Sunday 10 February, 2013
The Mars rover Curiosity has penetrated a rock on the Red Planet and collected a sample from its interior, the US space agency has announced.
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# nasa - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Engineer, Norah Patten, has always been fascinated with space and has even made a career out of it. Now she wants to be Ireland’s first female astronaut. Here she tells us why.
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It could improve commercial aircraft efficiency within a decade.
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# nasa - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Also: What’s the hardest thing about being in charge of the ISS. Commander Chris Hadfield tells all…
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# nasa - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Get that dirt of your boulder!
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# nasa - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Researchers have confirmed to NewScientist that NASA is considering plans to put another natural satellite in orbit around our own.
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# nasa - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
Landing on Mars, meteor showers and fixing the space station with a toothbrush – it’s been quite a year.
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# nasa - Sunday 16 December, 2012
The Ebb and Flow lunar probes will be purposely sent to impact with a mountain because of their low orbit and low fuel levels.
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# nasa - Thursday 6 December, 2012
The images were taken by an orbiting satellite and show bright lights across the world at night.
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# nasa - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
NASA has downplayed talk of a ‘major discovery’ by its Curiosity rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the planet.
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# nasa - Monday 5 November, 2012
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
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# nasa - Saturday 3 November, 2012
NASA has launched a new service that emails people when the International Space Station is visible in the skies over where they live.
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# nasa - Thursday 1 November, 2012
Space station dodged a menacing piece of orbiting junk yesterday.
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# nasa - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin face what may be the heaviest workload in the 12-year history of the space station.
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# nasa - Friday 12 October, 2012
Endeavour’s two-miles-per-hour journey to the California Space Centre will mean all four shuttles have been rehoused.
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# nasa - Saturday 29 September, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kilkenny residents told they have to live beside Phil Hogan; Mars rover finds primary care centres on the red planet.
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# nasa - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
# nasa - Friday 7 September, 2012
The crew managed to fix a serious power problem with the makeshift tool on Wednesday after a six and a half hour space walk.
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Clouds and sun with a passing shower
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