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The laws that keep space from spiraling out of control into a political war zone
Ever wonder why no one can legally own the Moon? Or why it's illegal to test nuclear weapons in space? It's all because of a series of space laws that began with the Outer Space Treaty back in...
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This chart shows how you'll probably die
On March 5, an asteroid about 100 feet across will fly close to Earth. But don't worry, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Objects Studies say there's no chance of the space rock impacting our...
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Scientists are getting ready to make a huge announcement that would uphold a...
Get ready. Thursday, Feb. 11 could be a day for the history books. A team of scientists from Caltech, MIT, and the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration...
View ArticleEinstein's wildest prediction from 100 years ago is turning out to be true
When Albert Einstein predicted that two colliding black holes could cause gravitational waves in the fabric of space, he was sure to mention he never thought we'd confirm the elusive waves exist. But...
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Physicists have detected something unbelievable from space — watch the...
Scientists have announced on February 11 that we have finally recorded an elusive phenomenon Albert Einstein first predicted 100 years ago.Called gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space...
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See how hard it is to detect gravitational waves by playing this maddening...
For more than 100 years scientists have been searching for signs of gravitational waves, or ripples in spacetime that Einstein predicted back in 1916.Nearly six decades passed since astronomers first...
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Scientists just detected gravitational waves for the first time ever
A "revolutionary" new era in science has just begun with a violent event deep in space.Today researchers announced that they have detected ripples in the fabric of space called gravitational waves....
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The first discovery of 2 colliding black holes just fundamentally changed our...
A team of scientists just announced an Earth-shattering discovery that encompasses everything from Albert Einstein's famous theories about the laws of physics to the fundamental way we approach our...
View ArticleHere's what gravitational waves are and why they matter
NSF just announced they had observed gravitational waves using LIGO. For the unfamiliar, here's what gravitational waves are, what causes them, and what it means for our study of the universe. Produced...
View ArticleThe scientist who discovered gravitational waves describes what they actually...
A group of scientists just proved Einstein's gravitational wave theory. Here's what happened.Produced by Matthew Stuart. Video Courtesy of National Science Foundation. Join the conversation about this...
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This black hole collision produced the first gravitational waves ever heard
Einstein was right. Ripples through the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves do exist.Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision between...
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Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today
For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed gravitational waves, ripples in space time caused by violent cosmic events, like the explosion of a star or the collision of black holes. Researchers...
View ArticleThese 5-mile long buildings led to one of the greatest discoveries in physics
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is made up of two complexes in the United States. Separated by thousands of miles, each one is 5 miles long.Produced by Matt Stuart. Video...
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7 mind-blowing facts about gravitational waves, the 100-year-old prediction...
On Thursday, a team of scientists announced that they had detected a phenomenon called gravitational waves for the first time.Rumors are circulating that the discovery is worthy of the prestigious...
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This collision was 50 times more powerful than all the stars in the universe...
Today, scientists announced the first-ever gravitational wave detection, and the news is still reverberating around the world.A 900-person team and the hyper-sensitive Laser Interferometer...
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Astronomers finally have a way to track objects that don't emit light
Astronomy as we know it will never be same.Today, February 11, scientists announced that we finally detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as "gravitational waves."The signal was detected at...
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How in the world can we ‘hear’ gravitational waves traveling from 1.3 billion...
For the first time ever, scientists have detected ripples through the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected these...
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Gravitational waves will unlock these 'revolutionary' secrets of the universe
Ripples in the fabric of space, called gravitational waves, are careening across the universe, right through everything and everyone.Scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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Scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with comet probe Philae
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation only to lose power because its...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains why we need to find aliens
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why finding alien life would change everything we know about our own world.Produced by Darren Weaver and Kamelia Angelova. Additional production by Kevin Reilly.Follow TI:...
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