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Watch NOW: SpaceX launches ‘secretive payload’ on board Falcon 9
The private space company launched NROL-76 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 1 May at 11:00 UTC – watch it here
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Astronomers discover a ‘hyper-starburst’ galaxy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes reveal that a recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction
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VIDEO: Watch the moment SpaceX’s Falcon 9 explodes on the launch pad
On Thursday morning, an entire payload and rocket was destroyed during a routine test at Cape Canaveral in Florida
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Juno Update: Spacecraft completes first close flyby of Jupiter
This is the first of 36 orbital flybys of the gas giant
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Starmus 2014: “I had to take sleeping pills when we landed on the Moon,” says Charlie Duke
When he and his crew landed on the Moon, our lunar companion wasn’t what Apollo 16’s Charlie Duke expected