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NASA Confirms Existence of Earth’s Second Moon?
16 October 2017 While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit, this object cannot be classified as a moon.
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NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Burns Up in the Skies Over Saturn
15 September 2017 Cassini had been exploring Saturn for the last 13 years.
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Solar Eclipse from Space
Updated A supposed photograph of a solar eclipse taken from space was actually a digital creation.
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KFC to Send Chicken Sandwich to Edge of Space on Balloon
13 June 2017 KFC announced on 13 June 2017 that it plans to send a chicken sandwich to the edge of the atmosphere with the help of a high-altitude balloon.
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Dangerous Cosmic Rays Will Pass Close to Earth ‘Tonight’?
24 May 2017 This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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‘Gates of Heaven’ Photograph
Updated A manipulated photograph of the Swan Nebula was passed around as an image of "The Gates of Heaven" that has supposedly befuddled astronomers.
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Russia Has Reached Saturn?
Updated No country has yet succeeded in sending a manned vessel to Mars, let alone Saturn.
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Four-Armed UFO Spotted by International Space Station?
Updated The blurry image of a purported unidentified flying object has no details about the date or time it was spotted.
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Scientists May Have Found Two New ‘Moonlets’ Lurking In Uranus’ Rings
27 October 2016 Though we can’t yet see them directly, decades-old data may suggest the presence of two previously undiscovered mini-moons in the rings of Uranus.
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Leaked E-mails Show John Podesta Discussed Alien Technology with Former NASA Astronaut
13 October 2016 A retired astronaut with some eccentric views did attempt to set up a meeting with Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, but that's about as far as it got.
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Starlight May Be Integral to Life’s Existence, Scientists Find
12 October 2016 New discoveries indicate that ultraviolet light emitted by stars might have created the basic molecules that formed the amino acids often called the "building blocks" of life.
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Elon Musk Proposes Aggressive Agenda to Put Humans on Mars by 2022
4 October 2016 The project by Musk's SpaceX would put humans on Mars before NASA missions achieve that goal.
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‘Unidentified Flying Object’ Seen as SpaceX Rocket Exploded
7 September 2016 Video capturing the explosion of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket during a test fire seems to show an unidentified flying object pass above the rocket just beforehand.
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Asteroid Flew Past Earth Just Hours After Its Discovery
31 August 2016 The asteroid — dubbed 2016 QA2 — flew between the Earth and the moon.
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Aliens Are (Probably) Not Broadcasting a Signal from Space
29 August 2016 A supposed signal originating from a star about 95 light years from Earth is causing excitement -- but it's highly unlikely ET is behind it.
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Photograph ‘Taken Without a Telescope’ Shows Andromeda Galaxy Next to the Moon
25 May 2016 A purported photograph that shows the galaxy next to (and much larger than) the moon is actually a composite of two separate images.
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Saturn ‘Close to Earth’ Meme
27 April 2016 A meme played on social media's fascination with astronomy by claiming that Saturn would appear to be impossibly close to Earth in May 2016.
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NASA Reports Magnetosphere Collapse
26 April 2016 A conspiracy-oriented web site claimed that that Earth's magnetosphere "COLLAPSED" for two hours, but NASA confirmed the incident was a software glitch — and that such fluctuations aren't doomsday events.
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