The space station just got an inflatable room — and it could change space travel
The International Space Station just got a new addition — a module that can be expanded and give astronauts more room to live and conduct experiments. If it survives, the technology could be used to...
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Astronomers just spotted a giant galaxy orbiting our own
The astronomers who discovered it call it the “feeble giant.”By studying a collection of images taken by the Very Large Telescope (VST) in Chile, astronomers at Cambridge University recently detected...
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To explore deep space, an astronaut says we need to build a rocket factory on...
Strong gravity and a thick atmosphere allow us to live here on Earth, but also what make it so difficult to leave the planet.Rockets have to exceed at least 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity. That...
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An MIT student invented a robot that can grow fruits and vegetables on Mars
Many scientists believe that eventually the Earth will die. When that happens, humanity will need to vacate and find a new home, possibly on Mars.Heather Hava, an aerospace engineering student at the...
View ArticleThe unsettling reasons no one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor over Russia coming —...
In 2013, a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. No one saw it coming. Even though NASA has been able to identify over 14,000 near-earth objects, its asteroid tracking technology is not...
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NASA has detected a burst of light that might be linked to one of the most...
In September, physicists made a monumental discovery that opened up a new window to the universe.Using equipment called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the researchers...
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The world's blackest material makes NASA's ultra-black paint look like it’s...
The paint used on the Hubble telescope is one of the blackest materials in space. It's there to reduce stray light so the instrument can photograph the best possible images of our solar system and...
View ArticleWatch SpaceX bring its history-making rocket back home on an epically long...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 has had a long two weeks. After launching 7,000 pounds worth of supplies into space at a velocity of nearly 4,000 miles an hour on April 8, it accomplished the mind-blowing feat of...
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Fly through a beautiful 'Bubble Nebula' to celebrate the Hubble Telescope's...
The Hubble Telescope has now been in orbit around the Earth for 26 years. To celebrate, it snapped this gorgeous image of the 'Bubble Nebula,' which is between 7,000 and 11,000 light-years away.The...
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NASA just kickstarted the race to build homes on Mars — and they look nothing...
NASA wants to send us to Mars. But they need a little help figuring out how — and where — we're going to survive.In a press release issued on Wednesday, the agency announced that it's soliciting...
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China plans to reach Mars by 2020 and eventually build a moon base
China has plans to orbit the moon, land people on it, and eventually settle a moon colony.But that's just part of the nation's vision for space exploration: China intends to get a spacecraft to Mars by...
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Celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday with 26 of the telescope's most breathtaking...
Since it launched into space on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable instrument to astronomers in unraveling the mysteries of the universe.As it orbits the Earth 340 miles...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just...
We trust the scientists around us to have the best grasp on how the world actually works.So at this year's 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, which addressed...
View ArticleHere's the destruction different asteroids would cause if they hit Earth
NASA tracks more than 10,000 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in space. Millions of years ago, one of these NEOs hit Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. No person has every been killed by one in recorded human...
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Astronauts say this movie is as close as you can get to being in space...
Since 1968, astronauts have reported experiencing the "overview effect," a profound sense of awe at our fragile existence on our weird little blue marble, hanging in the vastness of space."Blue Planet"...
View ArticleHere’s what scientists think aliens could actually look like
We've all wondered whether aliens actually exist – and if they do what exactly do they look like? We compiled information from some of the world's leading scientists to give you a glimpse into what...
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An astronaut who’ll be on Virgin Galactic’s preliminary voyage into orbit has...
On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being on the moon. In doing so, he succinctly expressed humanity’s collective vision for Peace.Speaking for humankind, he proudly undertook a...
View ArticleThis explosion nearly killed Neil Armstrong a year before landing on the moon
Before he became the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong nearly lost his life in a fiery test-flight crash in 1968.In a video provided by NASA, the terrifying incident shows how the...
View ArticleHere's what would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time
If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, we wouldn't change the Earth's orbit in space, but we could cause a lot of damage on Earth.Produced by Delano Samuels Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the...
View ArticleThe Hubble captured an incredible image of a gigantic cosmic soap bubble
To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula"— which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.Produced by...
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