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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, bringing three station crewmen back to Earth

December 11, 2015 William Harwood

Three space station fliers floated into their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the lab complex and plunged back to Earth Friday, making a rare nighttime landing in snowy Kazakhstan to close out a 141-day stay in orbit.

Live coverage: International crew lands in Kazakhstan

December 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

Veteran Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, flanked by Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, boarded a Soyuz landing craft Friday and made a parachute-assisted touchdown in Kazakhstan at 1312 GMT (8:12 a.m. EST) to close out more than 141 days on the International Space Station.

Rugged swath of Pluto now resolved in color

December 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

A high-resolution scan of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft published last week is now available in color, thanks to a new image release from NASA on Thursday showing craters, mountains and glaciers in a new light.

Three space station fliers set for landing Friday

December 10, 2015 William Harwood

In a rapid-fire crew exchange, three space station fliers return to Earth Friday morning, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan just four days before their replacements blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome a few hundred miles away, boosting the lab’s crew back to six.

With widespread salts and ices, Ceres in a class of its own

December 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

The dwarf planet Ceres turns out to be a world with untold wonders, with vivid bright spots likely made of dried mineral salts and hazes apparently triggered by daytime heating, drawing a comparison to comets and strikingly differentiating it from neighboring bodies in the asteroid belt.

Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, bringing three station crewmen back to Earth

Live coverage: International crew lands in Kazakhstan

Rugged swath of Pluto now resolved in color

Three space station fliers set for landing Friday

With widespread salts and ices, Ceres in a class of its own

SpaceX eyes Dec. 19 for first launch since June

Zenit rocket raised on launch pad for possible final flight

Long March lofts communications craft for Chinese government

Russian reconnaissance satellite re-enters atmosphere

Latest Global Positioning System satellite goes live