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An illustration of Pluto based on data sent by the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to it. Pluto inexplicably has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one, and its surface appears to be a bright peach-red color, but also areas of white and dark red. Illustration: An artist's illustration of Pluto. (Illust. Credit: NASA/New Horizons)

New Horizons approaches Pluto - discovered signs of polar caps

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The first map of the Dark Energy Survey traces the distribution of dark matter over a large region of the sky. The colors describe the effective mass density. (Image: Dark Energy Survey)

Scientists have mapped the dark matter around millions of galaxies

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The Falcon 9 launcher approaches the landing pad in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, April 14, 2015

SpaceX's second attempt to land the first stage of a launcher on a rig failed; The payload to the space station was successfully launched

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NASA scientists determined that a primitive ocean on Mars contained more water than the Arctic Ocean on Earth, yet Mars lost 87% of its water content to space. Figure. Credit: NASA/GSFC

Mars was covered by a deep ocean for over 1.5 billion years

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Actor Leonard Nimoy and his wife Susan at the opening of a film of the "Star Trek" film series in Hollywood, 3/4/2009. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from "Star Trek" has died

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At the time when modern man emerged from the shadows, and the Neanderthals were close to extinction, a double star system passed by the far reaches of the solar system. (Image: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester)

A star passed through our solar system 70 thousand years ago

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The International Space Station as seen on April 17, 2010 from the space shuttle Discovery as it left the station

Fear of an ammonia leak in the space station necessitated the evacuation of the American wing. Peace to the team

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Dispatch! SpaceX's Falcon 9 spacecraft lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its way to rendezvous with the International Space Station on Monday. Nine Merlin engines produce about half a million tons of thrust when the missile begins to climb into orbit. Photo: NASA

The SpaceX rocket landed on the rig, but at a higher speed than expected

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Artist rendering of a trans-Neptunian object. The distant sun was reduced to a bright star 5 billion kilometers away. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has now announced the discovery of several such objects, most likely dwarf planets like Pluto. Image: NASA

Look for dark energy and find more dwarf planets beyond Neptune-Rahab

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Artist illustration of "The Living Mars" Illustration by Kevin Gill, NASA

Students propose to "surface" Mars using blue bacteria

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Venus Express. Figure: European Space Agency

Venus Express - the end? The European Space Agency lost control of the spacecraft

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A photograph of the Las Vegas crater taken by the European Mars Express spacecraft on November 27, 2014. Photo: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

90 thousand ordinary citizens broadcast a radio message to Mars to promote space exploration

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An artist's illustration of the Phi-Colombo spacecraft orbiting Mercury. Illustration: Astrium Company

One of two European-Japanese spacecraft to fly to Mercury in 2016 begins testing phase

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Two objects with comet-like orbits passed through the solar system in 2013 and 2014, but showed no activity. On the left is C/2013 P2 Pan-STARRS and on the right is C/2014 S3 Pan-STARRS. Photo: Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii.

"Naked" comets may reveal the secret of the origin of the solar system

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A photograph showing the Philae lander taking off from comet 67P Churimov-Gersimenko in Rosetta animation. Credit: SA/Rosetta/NAVCAM; pre-processed by Mikel Canania"

The wisdom of the crowds helped discover the jump of the Philae lander and its final landing place on the comet

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Rosetta, the scientific mission to study the surface of the cometary nucleus, "Aspiration" a short film from the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation describing the near future, and a drawing of Rosetta for children designed to encourage the younger generation to prepare for the great adventures to come. Photos (Photo Credits: ESA, Platige Image, ESA Communications

4 days to landing on the comet - the science website will report from the field; The European Space Agency released a short DVB film describing the operation

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One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

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Debris of the SpaceShip 2 spacecraft that crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, October 31, 2014. From Twitter

Second space accident in a week, one dead and one injured in the crashes of Virgin's Spaceship-2 spacecraft planned to fly space tourists

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Another angle of yesterday's Hunters missile explosion in Viragdiniya. Photo: NASA

The catastrophic failure of the Hunter missile - personal testimony * Russian supply spacecraft took off safely

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Google's vice president for search, Alan Eustace broke the record for falling from the stratosphere, set only two years ago in the well-publicized operation of the Austrian Felix Baumgartner. This time the preparations for the event were kept secret. It took off to an altitude of 42 km from the abandoned Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico, where the first record was set in 1960 by Colonel Joseph Kittinger of the US Air Force. Photo: Paragon Space Development Company.

An executive at Google broke the record for skydiving from a great height (video)

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The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission - MOM photographed the edge of Mars from its angle of view with its color camera from an altitude of 8,449 km immediately after its arrival in orbit on September 23, 2014. Photo: ISRO

The Indian spacecraft MOM photographed the Martian rim after its successful arrival

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Attached are photographs of the Osiris facility on the Rosetta spacecraft, of the J site, on the surface of comet P67 Churyumov-Gardimenko. Photo: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for Osiris Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

The landing site of the Paley lander (attached to the Rosetta spacecraft) on the comet has been determined

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Rescue crew members inspect the experimental X-37B space plane at Vandenberg Air Force Base after it spent 674 days in space. So far, such planes have been launched for three missions that stayed in space for 1,367 days. Photo: Boeing

The mysterious X-37B military space plane has landed after two years in orbit

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The Rosetta spacecraft took this selfie on October 7, along with its target - comet 67P Churyumov-Gardimenko from an altitude of about 10 kilometers. Photo: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA

A selfie of a spaceship and a comet

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The Earth and the Moon as photographed from the Messenger spacecraft on October 8, 2014. Photo: NASA and Johns Hopkins University

This is what a white eclipse looks like - from the planet Mercury

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