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Queen guitarist Brian May releases tribute to NASA spacecraft

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he…

Virgin Galactic reaches space for first time

by Gene Blevins Agence France Presse MOJAVE, United States (AFP) -- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew higher than it…

NASA’s Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- NASA's Voyager 2 probe has left the protective bubble around the Sun and is flying…

SpaceX launches cargo, but fails to land rocket

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- SpaceX on Wednesday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo…

NASA’s first asteroid sample-collector arrives at target, Bennu

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and…

Cheers as Mars InSight spacecraft lands on Red Planet

by Laurent Banguet / with Kerry SHERIDAN in Tampa Agence France Presse PASADENA, United States (AFP) -- Cheers and applause…

Before Mars landing, a nail-biting ‘six and a half minutes of terror’

  by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- A spacecraft that cost nearly a billion dollars…

NASA counts down to landing of Martian quake-sensor, InSight

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday…

NASA picks ancient Martian river delta for 2020 rover touchdown

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA has picked an ancient river delta as the…

NASA’s Dawn asteroid mission ends as fuel runs out

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Dawn, a NASA spacecraft that launched 11 years ago and studied two of the largest…

NASA’s planet-hunter telescope, Kepler, runs out of fuel

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- The US space agency's Kepler space telescope has run…

NASA spacecraft breaks record for coming closest to Sun

TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for…

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