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Elon Musk wants to land humans on Mars within 9 years
Elon Musk, the visionary head of SpaceX, has announced that he wants to land humans on Mars within the next nine years.Speaking at the Code Conference June 1, Musk said he plans to send astronauts to...
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King Tut's dagger was likely forged from a falling star
Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian boy king better known as King Tut, was a pretty cool kid.While most nine-year-olds these days are still trudging through grade school, Tut was beginning his rule of...
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Scientists think they know how water ended up on the moon
In 2009, scientists confirmed there waswater on the moon, but had no idea how it got there.A new study concludes that asteroids probably carried water to the moon about 4.5 billion years ago, according...
View ArticleThe mysterious direction of time reveals something fascinating about our...
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explains why time moves forward in his new book, "The Big Picture." Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the...
View ArticleThe first phone call made to astronauts on the Moon will be the most...
Minutes after Apollo 11 NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin set foot on the Moon in July, 1969, they received an important phone call. It was President Richard Nixon who from the...
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The universe is expanding faster than we thought
A beautiful thing about science is that it’s constantly revised. In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding. This means that the galaxies around ours are moving away from us as...
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Every 230 million years, the earth completes its longest journey
Sure, Earth goes around the sun every year, and it's a wonderful thing. But we're making another, much more impressive journey all the time.Every 230 million years or so, Earth and the rest of our...
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We spoke to the CEO of a new company that wants to revolutionize the way we...
Jim Cantrell, CEO and co-founder of Vector Space Systems who was involved in the early days of SpaceX, wants to do for spaceflight what Apple CEO Steve Jobs did for so many other industries:...
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Here's how scientists will take the first-ever photograph of a black hole
You've probably seen a handful of amazing black hole images on the internet, like the one below.It shows a black hole dragging in the hot plasma of a nearby blue giant star, never to be seen again:Or...
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Scientists are one step closer to building a giant detector in space that...
What could be more awesome than detecting something never detected before, making one of the most monumental discoveries in physics, and confirming Albert Einstein’s 100-year-old predictions?Detecting...
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A former NASA astronaut has been charged with 2 counts of murder after a...
A retired NASA astronaut was free on bail on Tuesday after being charged with two counts of murder in connection with a traffic crash that killed two girls near Tuscaloosa, Alabama this week.James...
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A famous astronaut says his body still hurts after spending a year in space
Three months after returning to Earth, Astronaut Scott Kelly is still feeling the effects of his year in space.Speaking at a NASA event answering questions about his mission, Kelly described how the...
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Why this clock is key for future space exploration
We all intuitively understand the basics of time. Every day we count its passage and use it to schedule our lives.We also use time to navigate our way to the destinations that matter to us.In school we...
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Supermassive black holes gorge themselves on a different diet than we thought
Up until now, scientists believed that supermassive black holes gorged themselves on a strict regimen of hot, ionized gas from the halos of galaxies.But a new study that will be published June 9 in...
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Astronauts are taking incredible photos of the Himalayan mountains from space
It's no secret that astronauts have some of the best social media feeds on and off Earth.Scott Kelly, for example, blew us away with his #EarthArtseries on Instagram, Twitter, and other services. Like...
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SpaceX is finally about to test the key element in its mission to...
Two's company, three's a crowd, and four's a party. As SpaceX continues with its wildly successful series of rocket landings, hangar 39A, its trophy room in Cape Canaveral, Florida is filling up...
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Stephen Hawking says escape from a black hole is possible — kind of
Stephen Hawking has shaken up our understanding of black holes by announcing that actually, it might be possible to escape these greedy pits of spacetime.“They are not the eternal prisons they were...
View ArticleScientists found something troubling in this map of Earth at night
Scientists just used satellite data to compile the most accurate map of global light pollution at night. The effects of artificial light do much more than block out our view of the stars,...
View ArticleElon Musk's ambitious prediction for the future of humankind is awe-inspiring
Elon Musk explains why we it's crucial that we invest our resources into living on other planets. Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about...
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At least a trillion alien civilizations have 'almost certainly existed' in...
Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk often weighs on robots, Mars colonization, and aliens.On Sunday, his convictions about the existence of extraterrestrial life got a boost — this...
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