Sticky, stony and sizzling science launching to space station

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NASA's commercial partner Orbital ATK plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit on March 22, 2016 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for its fifth contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station. The flight, known as Orbital ATK CRS-6, will deliver investigations to the space station to study fire, meteors, regolith, adhesion, and 3-D printing in microgravity.
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NASA Reschedules Mars InSight Mission for May 2018

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Problems with the enclosure for a seismic instrument forced a two-year delay, but the mission is back on the schedule.










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Edge-On Galaxy NGC 5866

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Sharpest view ever of dusty disc around aging star

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Astronomers obtained the sharpest view ever of the dusty disc around an aging star. For the first time such features can be compared to those around young stars -- and they look surprisingly similar. It is even possible that a disc appearing at the end of a star's life might also create a second generation of planets.
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Dust grains could be remnants of stellar explosions billions of years ago

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Microscopic dust particles have been found in meteoritic material on Earth, particles that were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the creation of our star, the sun. Whether some of these particles of stardust, known as 'pre-solar grains,' came from classical nova explosions is the focus of ongoing experimental nuclear physics research.
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NASA's first wide-field soft X-ray camera is a gift that keeps giving

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NASA recently selected a miniaturized version of the original X-ray camera to fly as a CubeSat mission to study Earth's magnetic cusps -- regions in the magnetic cocoon around our planet near the poles where the magnetic field lines dip down toward the ground.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in thermal vacuum testing

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The first US mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for study is undergoing a major milestone in its environmental testing.
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Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin

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Mr. Bezos introduced reporters to Blue Origin for the first time on Tuesday, offering updates on his space tourism plans and a new engine that is being developed.










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