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Greenland lost record 532 bn tons of ice in 2019: A million ton per minute
The previous record was set in 2012 when the island lost 464 billion tons of mass from its thick ice sheet
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Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars: NASA
Dozens of controls on pop-up menus allow you to customize not just what you see - from faraway to right "on board" a spacecraft - but also how you see it
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Is the Moon drifting away from Earth? Laser beams unravel a new mystery
By measuring how long it takes laser light to return to Earth - about 2.5 seconds on average - researchers calculate the distance between Earth laser stations and Moon reflectors
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight
Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check
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NASA spacecraft completes final practice before asteroid sample collection
Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere
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NASA's planet hunter TESS completes two-year-long primary mission
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, on July 4, finished its primary mission imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey
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Dwarf planet Ceres not barren, is a water-rich world: NASA Dawn spacecraft
The dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is not a barren space rock as earlier believed
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NASA MAVEN spacecraft spots Martian night sky pulsing in UV light
New data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has shown vast areas of the Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
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Nasa sounding rocket finds helium structures in Sun's atmosphere
The HERSCHEL sounding rocket investigation adds to a body of work seeking to understand the origin of the slow component of the solar wind
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Scientific research to widen on ISS as SpaceX eyes commercial crew missions
Led by billionaire Elon Musk, SpaceX is all set for its next mission, Crew-1, to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on its reusable Dragon
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Data from NASA's InSight lander used for deep Mars measurements
Using data from NASA's InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to the core of the red planet
'Sounded like a beast': Astronauts recall SpaceX Dragon's return to Earth
SpaceX became first private company to send astronauts into orbit with the May 30 liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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'Thanks for Flying SpaceX': NASA Astronauts splash down in Gulf of Mexico
"On behalf of the SpaceX and NASA teams, welcome back to planet Earth," Michael Heiman, the SpaceX engineer communicating with the astronauts, said after splashdown
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First splashdown in 45 years: SpaceX guides NASA astronauts' safe return
For SpaceX, the flight is a signature achievement 18 years after Musk founded the company with the ultimate goal of populating other planets
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SpaceX helping NASA astronauts to retro-style splashdown, first in 45 years
It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first return in the gulf
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SpaceX Crew Dragon with 2 NASA astronauts successfully undocks from ISS
Endeavour is scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico as the Demo-2 mission validates SpaceX's crew transportation system - from launch to in-orbit, docking, landing, and recovery operations
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NASA Sun data helps scientists develop new model predict big solar flares
Using data from NASA's SDO scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's biggest flares from the last solar cycle, out of a set of nine
SpaceX capsule set to return 2 NASA astronauts from space station
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that carried two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station two months ago was set to depart the orbiting laboratory on Saturday.
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Mars 2020: The hunt for life on the red planet is about to get serious
The sudden flurry of activity is a result of planetary dynamics: every two or so years, the orbits of Earth and Mars align so that the two bodies are at their closest to each other
US astronauts pack up for rare splashdown from ISS in SpaceX capsule
SpaceX and Nasa plan to bring Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken back Sunday afternoon in the company's Dragon capsule
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