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SpaceX just successfully launched and landed its 5th rocket this year
SpaceX just successfully launched its fifth rocket of the year on Friday at 5:40 p.m. EST.The Falcon 9 rocket launched out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at twice the speed of a speeding bullet. It was...
View ArticleSpaceX just pulled off the greatest hat trick ever
SpaceX has again landed a rocket on a barge in the middle of the ocean. This marks the third time in a row the company has pulled off the feat.Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy of SpaceX.Follow...
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India is quietly becoming a space exploration powerhouse
India successfully launched a prototype space shuttle on May 23; a mini, unmanned space vehicle called the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator.The shuttle traveled to an altitude of about...
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SpaceX just landed its third rocket in a row on a wobbly ship at sea
From now on, we'll be surprised when SpaceX doesn't land one of its rockets.The company, owned by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, has launched and safely touched down its third rocket on a droneship in...
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This picture of sand dunes on a protoplanet proves our brains are lying to us...
I love a good coincidence. Especially a series of them. To wit:Last week I wrote an article about a massively viral optical illusion photo of a brick wall—if you haven’t seen it yet, I won’t spoil it;...
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Here’s the massive amount of fuel it takes to launch a rocket into space — in...
On July 16, 1969, an American rocket called the Saturn V launched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into space in a mission that would end with the first human steps on the moon. To this day, no other...
View ArticleSpaceX has a radical plan to reach Mars that's unlike anything anyone has...
Elon Musk's private company SpaceX has big plans to usher in a new era of reusable rockets that could send the first humans to Mars and return them home. Here's how the company plans to land on the Red...
View ArticleNASA just released the most detailed close-up shots of Pluto’s surface yet,...
NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the images, and they are absolutely...
View ArticleThere’s a surprising threat to satellites — and it's right here on Earth
Despite being miles away in space, lasers can pose a massive danger to satellites and their sensitive equipment.Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy of the US Air Force.Follow TI:On FacebookJoin the...
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Watch kids react as a magical school bus takes them to 'Mars'
OK, so full disclosure that this video is a PR stunt by rocket manufacturer Lockheed Martin (the company NASA has contracted to build its spacecraft to Mars).But it looks like the kids who participated...
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An exoplanet 1,200 light years away might be capable of sustaining life
A distant planet 1,200 light years away from Earth, which may have rocky topography and an ocean, could be capable of sustaining life, according to a new study."We found there are multiple atmospheric...
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You can now buy these awesome postage stamps of Pluto and the planets
Back in 1991, the US Postal Service issued stamps of the solar system's then-nine planets.Although Pluto has since been demoted to dwarf planet, it had the only one that read "not yet explored."So when...
View ArticleNASA just added an extra room to the Space Station — see how they did it
NASA inflated the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on the International Space Station on May 28, 2016. It's the first inflatable room ever attached to the ISS.Produced by Zach Wasser. Video courtesy...
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The case for black holes being nothing but holograms just got even stronger
If anything can sum up just how little we truly know about the Universe, it’s black holes.We can’t see them because not even light can escape their gravitational pull, we have no idea what they’re made...
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Jeff Bezos thinks that to save the planet we'll need to move all heavy...
When Jeff Bezos isn't doing his "day job" running Amazon, he's thinking a lot about outer space.Onstage at Vox Media's Code Conference this week, Bezos said he thought that his rocket company, Blue...
View ArticleAstronomers think the sun stole this planet from another star
A new study outlines a wild new theory that our sun stole Planet Nine from another star billions of years ago.Produced by Zach Wasser and Rebecca Harrington. Video courtesy of NASA.Follow TI: On...
View ArticleThis massive net could solve a huge problem in space
There are almost 30,000 man-made objects orbiting Earth. Many are tiny pieces of rockets and satellites, while others just aren't used anymore. All of them pose risks to other space craft and...
View ArticleThis mind-boggling thought experiment reveals how to grow oceans on the Moon
It's a classic fable that dates back decades, but as we all (hopefully) know, the moon is not actually made of cheese. But what if it were?Produced by Jessica Orwig and Alex Kuzoian. Special thanks to...
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What Andy Weir has to say about 'The Martian' being classified as a comedy
When the Golden Globes nominated"The Martian" for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, people were outraged.Judd Apatow, a director known for blockbuster comedies like "Bridesmaids," complained...
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Here's the question Elon Musk talked about so much that he now refuses to...
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has spent so much time debating whether or not we exist in some advanced civilization's video game that he had to vow to stop discussing the topic in hot tubs.The popular...
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