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Space colonization is the process of establishing human settlements beyond Earth for prestige, commercial and strategic benefits. This is in contrast to...

Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -⁠ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHARR-ən), or (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet...

SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (2,000 mph)...

Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of...

KELT-2 (also called HD 42176) is a yellow white main sequence star located about 439 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The apparent magnitude...

The Ursa Major Cluster (Ursa Major I Cluster, UMa I ClG) is a spiral-rich galaxy cluster of the Virgo Supercluster. Some of its largest members are NGC...

A heliospheric imager is a wide-field camera that is designed to image the solar wind in interplanetary space, far from the Sun itself. The solar wind...