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Space Food Experiment: NASA Seeks Volunteers to Inhabit Hawaiian Mars-Like Environment

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Next year, six volunteers will spend four months living on a simulated Mars base for a NASA food study conducted by Cornell University and the University of Hawaii-Manoa. (6:08 pm)

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Black Hole Winds, Waterworld Planet Discovered by NASA: Rare Pictures of 5 Other Recent Space Discoveries [PHOTOS]

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NASA has had a big week! Record breaking space winds emitting from a black hole and a new "waterworld planet" were reportedly discovered in deep space this week. (11:08 am)

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Black Hole Researchers Record 20 Million MPH Winds Coming from the Mysterious Cosmic Object

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Scientists have discovered something amazing in space. After analyzing satellite images, scientists have discovered the fastest measured winds to be observed from a stellar-mass black hole. (10:16 am)

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Astronomers Discover Super Earth; A Water World

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Astronomers have discovered an exo-planet that reportedly contains water. The discovery was made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (7:11 am)

NASA Discovers Fastest Cosmic Hurricane; Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds

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Scientists have successfully measured, what they claimed, the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a stellar-mass black hole. The wind is moving at a record-breaking speed of about 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent of the speed of light. (3:16 am)

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NASA Discovers 20 Million MPH Wind Blowing in Stellar Black Hole

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Astronomers working from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory have discovered what they believe is the fastest blowing wind, coming from a stellar black hole. (3:01 am)

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Space Elevator That Soars 60,000 Miles into Space May Become Reality by 2050

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Obayashi Corporation, one of the major Japanese construction companies, has a grandiose dream - it plans to build a 'space elevator,' by the year 2050, which will transport passengers almost 60,000 miles high into space, Japanese newspaper Yomiuri has reported. (Feb 21)

Angry Birds Space Launch March 22: New Birds, Super Powers, Zero Gravity and Many More

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Rovio is launching the fourth major release in the Angry Birds series "Angry Birds Space" on March 22 for mobile devices. The game will feature new planets, and users will have to compete with zero gravity while experiencing many new gameplay elements. (Feb 21)

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NASA Captures Dramatic Video of Solar Tornado [VIDEO]

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A NASA spacecraft was a stunning video showing the sun's plasma spinning around in the sun's magnetic field earlier this month. (Feb 20)

John Glenn Celebrates 50 Years Since Orbiting Earth: Rare Pictures from Space Flight [PHOTOS]

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It was 50 years ago today that astronaut John Glenn left the earth in what would become on the most historic flights. Glenn's capsule, the Friendship 7, soared 162 miles from Cape Canaveral, Fla., into outer space. (Feb 20)