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On July 17, did you look up and smile? If not, you’re one of several billion people who were captured in candid pose when NASA’s Cassini space probe looked back at Earth from about 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) away. Cassini has always been able to flip around and snap pictures in Earth’s general direction, but this picture was ...

AP The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite is set to plummet to Earth on Sunday night, but will likely land in water and will disintegrate while traveling through Earth’s atmosphere. The sky isn’t falling — just a 2,000-pound satellite. The European Space Agency says their research satellite that lost fuel in mid-October will likely crash into an ocean or the ...