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PARE-PARE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Nearly 250 people are still missing from an Indonesian ferry which sank in heavy seas at the weekend, officials said on Monday, as bad weather hampered rescue efforts.

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Russia is pushing forward on a robotic mission to Mars dubbed Phobos-Grunt — now seemingly on a countdown clock that ticks away for an October launch.

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Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

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Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Jan. 14, as preparations for the STS-119 mission move forward.

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A suitcase-sized satellite will search for potentially dangerous asteroids that are hard to spot from the ground

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A NASA spacecraft set to launch in 2015 will come eight times closer to the Sun than any previous probe, flying within its scorching outer atmosphere

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Space Shuttle flips the bird. Then flambés it. Is there anything NASA can’t do?

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Framed by components of the International Space Station, a full moon is visible in this view above Earth’s horizon and airglow.

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