NASA

Where on Earth will NASA Satellite Hit this Week?

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For weeks NASA's defunct 7-ton research satellite has been falling towards Earth with the potential of shattering on the earth's surface and raining debris on densely populated areas, but the Space agency has confirmed the impeding threat saying it is set to crash by the end of the week.
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International Space Station

Soyuz Lands Safe After Giving Tense Moments

The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the three out of six crew members returning from the International Space Station touched down safely on Friday at the central grasslands of Kazakhstan, but not without a drama.
Russian Spacecraft crashed

NASA and Roscosmos to Launch Next Space Station Crew on Nov. 14

NASA along with the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, will launch the first manned Soyuz rocket on Nov. 14 this year. Their last initiative of a similar booster carrying a robotic cargo ship last month was a failure.
Double Sun

NASA Discovers Two-Sun Planet Like in Star Wars

In 1977, the blockbuster sci-fi movie Star Wars showed a spectacular scene: the lead character Luke Skywalker walks into a binary sunset in the planet Tatooine. Thirty-four years later, such a scene has become a reality. The only difference is that the planet is not called Tatooine but is officially called Kepler-16b.
Double Sun

Scientists Find Real 'Tatooine-Like' Planet With Two Suns

Scientists working with NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a planet containing two suns as shown by the 1977 sci-fi movie Star Wars, breaking several galactic assumptions that were previously thought to exist only in science fiction movies or books.

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