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How Blue Origin's Suborbital New Shepard Rocket Ride Works (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leads Blue Origin, a commercial aerospace firm that hopes to send people on suborbital and orbital space trips.

Solar Eclipses: An Observer's Guide (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
How Solar Eclipses Work: When the moon covers up the sun, skywatchers delight in the opportunity to see a rare spectacle.

Exoplanet 51 Eridani b: A Red-Hot Young Jupiter Around Distant Star (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
A planet only 20 million years old and still hot from its creation has been photographed in a solar system 96 light-years from Earth.

Philae Comet Landing: Big Discoveries About Comet 67P (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
Scientists have released new information about comet 67p and what the Philae lander discovered there.

Earth's Cousin Found: All About Exoplanet Kepler-452b (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
Astronomers have announced the discovery of planet Kepler-452b, orbiting a star very much like the sun but older and hotter.

Apollo-Soyuz: How the First Joint Space Mission Worked (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
Hardware developed for the race to the moon was used to foster collaboration between the two countries.

Kepler-138 b Facts: Mars-Size Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
By studying data from the Kepler probe, scientists have found a planet about the size of Mars, about 200 light-years away from Earth.

Dust Cloud Around the Moon Explained (Infographic)
By Karl Tate published
A permanent cloud of dust has been found hovering around the moon, caused by the impacts of tiny particles from deep space.
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