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Mars’ beautiful “blue sunset”
Curiosity Mars rover is currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, since 2012. The NASA space vehicle recently sent over some amazingly beautiful pictures of a “blue sunset” from the planet.
The photos were received on the 15th of April and depict the sun being lost over the horizon of the red planet.
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NASA spacecraft Messenger crashes on Mercury
An unmanned NASA spacecraft has crashed on the surface of the planet Mercury, after it ran out of fuel following a successful 11-year mission, the US space agency said April 30.
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Bulgarian Scientists Develop First Space Greenhouse on Earth
Scientists from Bulgaria, which is the third country in the world in the production of space food after Russia and the USA, have developed the first space greenhouse on Earth.
The aim of this programme is the production of space food, which does not differ from the genuine taste of food, private NOVA TV station reports.
NASA claims discovery of alien life certain within two decades
NASA scientist Ellen Stofan gave a speech in Washington D.C. in which she said that our galaxy is comprised of two hundred million planets like ours. Thus the question is not whether scientists will discover alien life or not, but rather when, since it’s a given.
NASA rover completes 11-year Mars marathon
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has become the first human-made vehicle to complete a marathon on another planet -- a feat accomplished in a record time of no less than 11 years.
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Milky Way may host billions of planets in 'habitable' zones: study
The Milky Way galaxy may be home to billions of planets orbiting their host stars in a "habitable zone" where life could theoretically exist, researchers said Wednesday.
Two solar eruptions caused geomagnetic storm
As was announced by US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), two solar eruptions occurred on Sunday causing a strong geomagnetic storm on Tuesday’s earth atmosphere that could disrupt electricity and telecommunications networks.
However, according to the announcement, no problems have been reported so far.
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NASA launches satellites to track 'magnetosphere'
Four identical satellites which will study the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetic fields blasted off into Space on March 12 and settled into orbit begin a two-year study, NASA said.
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Astronauts return to Earth on Russian Soyuz spaceship
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Thursday returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule after spending six months at the International Space Station.
Yelena Serova -- the first female Russian cosmonaut to have spent time on the ISS -- landed along with Alexander Samokutyaev and Barry Wilmore in snowy Kazakhstan just after sunrise.
US astronauts begin spacewalk at orbiting lab
Two US astronauts on March 1 stepped out on the third spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years.
Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts began the spacewalk at 6:52 am (1152 GMT).
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