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It now goes around the Moon in a 179 km x 1,412 km orbit - shifting about 3,000 km closer to its target at the far end of the oval. "All spacecraft parameters a...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Fully Assembled

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Earth Alliance - created last month by DiCaprio and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth - launched the Amazon Forest Fund on Sunday wit...

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Goodbye Oppy: NASA Declares Mars Opportunity Rover Dead

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NASA administrator declares Pluto to be a planet once again

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SpaceX's Dragon completes record-setting third Space Station resupply mission

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Brexit: UK Prime Minister to suspend Parliament

The Pound fell by over one percent before paring losses, with GBPUSD sinking to sub-1.22 levels while EURGBP rising above 0.91, following news that the United K...

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By the end of the week, another cold front moves in from the northwest and will attempt to generate some rain late Friday night into Saturday . According t...

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