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Wired

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo made its first captive carry flight early this morning at the Mojave Air and Space Port. SpaceShipTwo, which was christened the VSS Enterprise at its unveiling in December, is being carried by WhiteKnightTwo on its firs

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Space

Captain Kirk might want to avoid taking the starship Enterprise to warp speed, unless he's ready to shrug off interstellar hydrogen atoms that would deliver a lethal radiation blast to both ship and crew. There are just two hydrogen atoms per cubi

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East Valley Tribune

His concept sketches for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Disney’s The Black Hole, and iconic poster art for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, McCall’s visions of the final frontier were used by NASA and the Postal Service

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Space

With two prototype modules for a commercial space station already circling the Earth, Bigelow Aerospace is gearing up for a full-scale assault on space. For the upstart firm, it's about volume — and not entirely in the sense of quantity or number

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Space

Astronomers have detected a giant magnetic loop sweeping out from a pair of binary stars in the Milky Way. "This is the first time we've seen a feature like this in the magnetic field of any star other than the sun," said William Peterson of the Univ

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Space

A mysterious ribbon spotted on the edge of the solar system has turned out to be a reflection of particles streaming off the sun, scientists have found. The space ribbon — a long band of high-energy particle emissions — was first noticed last year

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AP

A mystery object from space is about to whizz close by Earth on Wednesday. It won't hit our planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is. It may be space junk or it could be a tiny asteroid, too small to cause damage even if it hit. It's

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Gizmodo

Joseph Shoer, Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering, studying how modular spacecraft could be assembled, and hoping they will be the telescopes and human exploration vehicles of the future, and not for crushing the dreams of Martian colonists.

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AP

Voyager 2's vantage shows that beyond the solar system, the galaxy's magnetic field is unexpectedly strong, about twice as much as expected, and unexpectedly tilted. Our galaxy is essentially a twin-armed flat disk of stars 100,000 light years across

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