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Space Soundwaves Experiments with ZZ Top Aboard the International Space Station
 

Beards & Boogie in outer space

Spring's on the way, what are you planting in your garden?

This week at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens' Paul Smith Children's Village they are using egg cartons to grow kid's imaginations, turning them into greenhouses, maracas and something to help an egg survive the egg drop.

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Have you ever dreamed of going to space?

Three crew members who have been orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station since October of last year are returning to their home planet.

Their landing on the frigid steppes of Kazakhstan in Central Asia has now been pushed back to Friday, March 15, due to 'horrible' weather near the touch down area.

NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin had been aboard the International Space Station for 141 days and will now spend an extra day orbiting Earth inside a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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Have you seen your first falling star of 2013?

Gailen told me today that he saw a meteor early this morning on his way in for the KING morning show. There should be plenty more to see if we have clear skies overnight in the area.

According to Space.com, the annual meteor shower you can view tonight is caused by an asteroid known as 2003 EH1 which is leaving behind debris that is burned up in the Earth's atmosphere, causing bright 'falling stars.'

A photographer in Ohio captured some pictures recently from his home observatory of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower.

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The universe is a pretty amazing place, from the unimaginably large, right down to the incredibly small. There’s an awful lot going on in this field we call "existence."

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Superman's home planet Krytpon isn't fictional anymore! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has discovered the real-life counterpart to the planet that is so deeply embedded in the 'Superman' canon.

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All too often we get carried away believing (or worse, repeating) everything we are told and don't spend enough time questioning what's actually been said. We've picked 10 very common health mantras you hear everyday and weeded out the worst of the lies, because we want you to eat all the avocados. All of them.

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In anticipation of the upcoming release of 'Skyfall,' the 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise, we've explored five of our favorite Bond gadgets and put them to the test of reality. It's every guy's (and probably girl's) dream to have their own real life Q and his accompanying gadgets. But how many of these are accurate portrayals of reality and how many are far-flung fantasies that belong on the big screen?

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Ever wonder why the leaves turn color in the fall?

The Autumnal Equinox occurs at 10:49 a.m. on Saturday, September 22.

It's the cooler temperatures each fall that trigger leaves to stop prod

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Scientists might have to start working on a sled instead of a rover for the next trip to Mars.

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host this weird weather phenomenon.

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A Russian space capsule carrying a three-man multinational crew landed safely Sunday, July 1, on the southern steppes of Kazakhstan ending their 191-day mission to the International Space Station.

The Soyuz capsule performed a perfect upright textbook landing and Russian space officials quickly surrounded the space craft and erected ladders to begin pulling the crew members out.

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Have you ever watched Venus pass in front of the sun?

The Venus transit occurs this afternoon and several venues in the area are having viewing parties.

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