9,000 Chinese villagers are being displaced to build this massive radio...
2,029 families and 9,110 people are being moved to install FAST: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. The telescope is being installed in Guizhou, one of China's poorest...
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How NASA uses virtual reality to drive the Curiosity Rover on Mars
When NASA wants to control the Mars Rover, they boot up a video game that combines high-tech software, virtual reality, and 3D glasses.This way, researchers can "walk" on Mars through virtual reality...
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Scientists have sniffed the atmosphere of a 'super-Earth' for the first time
For the first time, astronomers have detected the atmospheric makeup of a 'super-Earth' – the most common type of planet in our galaxy.Found in other solar systems, these exoplanets have a mass larger...
View ArticleThis asteroid rover is unlike anything you've ever seen
This tiny rover is designed to explore the difficult terrain of comets and asteroids.Produced by Maya Dangerfield. Video courtesy of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Follow TI: On FacebookJoin the...
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3 brilliant scientists are favored to win a Nobel Prize in Physics — but...
You may have heard that physicists recently made an announcement that could prove to be the most important discovery of the century: the first detection of gravitational waves generated from two...
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This is how close you'd have to be to feel a gravitational wave
In case you missed it, we heard the universe wiggle last week.Einstein predicted back in 1916 that it's possible for anything with mass to ripple spacetime — basically, expand and relax like a...
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A huge advance in physics could help solve these mysteries of the universe
It's a bold new era in science.Physicists have finally detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime, called gravitational waves, which Albert Einstein predicted the existence of 100 years ago.The waves...
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Astronomers think this could be the key to finding alien life
When I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system.Astronomers presumed that many of the other stars in the night sky had planets too, but this was sheer...
View ArticleAstronomers just analyzed the air of a 'super-Earth' for the first time —...
55 Cancri e – a planet eight times the size of Earth – is 40 light-years away. Astronomers just found out what its air is made of.Produced by Matthew Stuart. Video courtesy ESA/Hubble and M....
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This chart shows how you could become a space outlaw
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...
View ArticleChina is building the world's largest radio telescope to detect life billions...
China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will be the world's biggest radio telescope when it is completed later this year. Its massive size and state-of-the-art design will allow China...
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5 reasons why you should care about the discovery of gravitational waves
Last week marked the historic announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves. A big press conference was held, and physicists around the world celebrated. The discovery was even compared to...
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Russia wants to use Cold War-style missiles to save Earth from rogue asteroids
Right now, Russia is making plans to launch missiles into space. The target: A large asteroid named 99942 Apophis, which is scheduled to pass close to — but not impact— Earth in the years 2029, 2036,...
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A five-dimensional black hole could break the laws of physics as we know them
If you thought regular black holes were about as weird and mysterious as space gets, think again, because for the first time, physicists have successfully simulated what would happen to black holes in...
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The most promising experiments that will discover if aliens are real
Aliens could be out there. We simply don't know it yet.Part of the reason we're still pretty clueless is because our technology is still in its infancy.But scientists and engineers are rapidly ramping...
View Article40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here's what it says
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View ArticleHere's why food tastes different in space
CSA astronaut Chris Hadfield explains the reason why food has little to no taste initially in space. Hadfield returned to Earth in May 2013.Produced by Emmanuel OcbazghiFollow BI Video: On Twitter Join...
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16 crazy things in space that look eerily like faces or recognizable objects
From the man in the moon to Greek gods among the stars, humans have long been discovering familiar forms in the heavens.There's a word for this phenomenon of seeing patterns that don't exist:...
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The two most important discoveries that completely transformed our view of ET...
When Jill Tarter, co-founder of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, devoted her life to the search for aliens in the early '80s, she was part of a hopeful minority amid a...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is snapping pictures of something unlike anything...
Right now, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is doing something exciting: shoveling sand.In December, the rover reached a new territory called Bagnold Dunes, which is rich with one of Mars' most iconic...
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