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The closest footage yet of SpaceX's epic rocket landing last month
Last month, the aerospace company SpaceX made history by sending an orbital rocket into space and then landing it back on the ground. No one else in the history of aerospace engineering has performed...
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Here's what gravitational waves are and how they could change physics forever
There's a rumor circulating that physicists may have finally discovered ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as "gravitational waves."Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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Stunning photos of SpaceX's rocket prepping for today's launch
On Sunday at 1:42 pm ET, SpaceX is scheduled to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Click here to watch it live.Tucked away inside the cone of the...
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NASA created a new office to handle it if there's an asteroid plummeting...
Last week, NASA announced the creation of a new office that will take charge in such a scenario.The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will help to track near-Earth asteroids, develop...
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SpaceX sees a successful lift off of its Falcon 9 rocket — but camera freezes...
On Sunday, Jan. 17, SpaceX saw a successful lift off of its Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:42 p.m. ET:Nearly one hour later, the rocket had successfully achieved...
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SpaceX breaks a leg and misses chance at a successful rocket landing
After a successful mission on Sunday afternoon out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, SpaceX attempted to land the first stage of its un-crewed two-stage Falcon 9 rocket for a second time in a...
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SpaceX was unsuccessful in its rocket landing attempt
SpaceX was unsuccessful in its attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Pacific ocean on Sunday January 17.The rocket did successfully launch the Jason 3 satellite, but on its return...
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Why a rumor about the discovery of something Einstein predicted 100 years ago...
On Monday, theoretical physicist Laurence Krauss sent the scientific community on Twitter reeling when he suggested that researchers may have detected, for the first time, an astrophysical phenomenon...
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5 amazing things that happen to your body in space
Tim Peake is the first official British astronaut to walk in space.The former Army Air Corps officer has spent a month in space, after blasting off on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space...
View ArticleElon Musk just released the 1st photo of Sunday's rocket landing attempt
On Sunday, SpaceX tried and was unsuccessful at landing the first stage of its second-stage rocket on a drone ship floating in the Pacific. SpaceX had planned to broadcast the landing attempt live, but...
View ArticleThe 1st video footage of SpaceX's rocket landing attempt reveals how close it...
On Sunday afternoon, SpaceX successfully launched the Jason 3 weather satellite into orbit. About 10 minutes after lift off the first stage of SpaceX two-stage Falcon 9 rocket headed back toward Earth...
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Earth is in the middle of a 'shooting gallery,' and a new NASA initiative is...
Right now Earth is surrounded by over 13,500 chunks of space rock, and if one of them bumps into us, the damage could be enough to flatten cities, wipe countries off the map, or even cause global...
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11 mind-melting photos will make you realize how shockingly small Earth is
Earth feels pretty large, and we feel pretty tiny living on it.But we rarely, if ever, stop to think about the vast beyond. And we should!Former astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his book "Pale Blue Dot:...
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The amazing perks of being a NASA astronaut
Every job comes with its own unique perks, but NASA astronauts seem to have the best perk of all: the opportunity to visit space.That's not the only bonus, however, according to NASA astronaut Andrew...
View ArticleHow NASA is revolutionizing our understanding of Mars
2015 marked 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars which started with Mariner 4 in 1965. These are the NASA rovers and satellites currently exploring the planet.Produced by Ruchika AgarwalFollow...
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4 cosmic phenomena that travel faster than the speed of light
When Albert Einstein first predicted that light travels the same speed everywhere in our universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on it: 670,616,629 miles per hour — fast enough to circle the...
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Most of the universe is missing — here are 5 ambitious experiments that might...
Everything that we see around us — planets, stars, nebulas, and so on — only makes up about 15% of the matter in the universe.The other 85% of matter is missing. Scientists call this invisible stuff...
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Epically awesome pictures of Saturn
Saturn flaunts the most majestic planetary rings in the solar system, but those are not the only things that make this beautiful gas giant unique. It's also the farthest planet from Earth that we can...
View ArticleNASA has officially grown the first zinnia flower in space
For the first time, a zinnia flower has bloomed in space, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Successfully growing flowers brings cosmic explorers closer to growing flowering food crops, like...
View ArticleNASA just released an incredible video of a giant wave of explosions on the sun
From Earth, the sun appears as a distant, fuzzy ball of warmth that gives us all life.But in reality the sun is a violent clump of magnetism and energy, and its surface is constantly erupting and...
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