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A communications cable serving the Russian space agency’s mission control was cut by construction workers but the accident has not…
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LOS ANGELES – NASA says it wants to launch another mega-rover to Mars modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. The…
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Is that a rat on Mars? A photo from the mast camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange,…
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On Jan. 30, 1540, in Mexico City, at a time when Spain was carving out an empire in the New…
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First paws: A history of presidential pets
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney toured swing states in the final days of the presidential campaign to emphasize their differences.…
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The Mars rover Curiosity — the centerpiece of NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission — has 10 instruments…
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