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SpaceX Dragon flies by space station
The world’s first private supply ship orbited the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
Scientists come across monstrous black holes
A team of astronomers have found the biggest black holes known to exist 300-million light years away — each one 10-billion times the size of our sun.
Nasa goes green with solar-powered Jupiter probe
Nasa’s upcoming mission to Jupiter can’t get much greener than this: a solar-powered, windmill-shaped spacecraft called Juno.
Astronauts open up billion-dollar space lab
Astronauts opened up Japan’s new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.