Canadian astronaut's 'Space Oddity' video back on YouTube
The first music video recorded in space - a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield - is back after a public outcry over its removal from YouTube. ... more
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NASA Lining up ICESat-2's Laser-catching Telescope
To catch individual laser photons that have travelled more than 600 miles from a satellite to Earth and back, the satellite's telescope needs to be perfectly positioned. Last week, engineers and tec ... more
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For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago
Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method
Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen
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Five years of soil moisture, ocean salinity and beyond
ESA's SMOS satellite has clocked up more than one billion kilometers orbiting Earth to improve our understanding of our planet's water cycle. Marking its fifth birthday, all the data collected over ... more
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NASA Program Enhances Climate Resilience at Agency Facilities
A new study in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society provides an in-depth look at how NASA facilities have been affected by climate extremes and climate change in r ... more
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Goodbye to Rainy Days for US, Japan's First Rain Radar in Space
After 17 years of groundbreaking 3-D images of rain and storms, the joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) will come to an end next year. NASA p ... more
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China gears up for lunar mission after round-trip success
The head of China's lunar probe program has called for a thorough analysis of data collected from the test lunar orbiter, which returned Saturday, to speed up work on Chang'e-5, the star of the 2017 ... more
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Virgin boss hits out after safety warning claim
Questions about why the Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed switched focus Monday to a prematurely-deployed lever on the doomed flight, as Virgin's boss suggested it may "well be" the cause. ... more
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