NASA just released a video of what it would be like to land on Pluto, and...
It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of images that New Horizons snapped of Pluto as...
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7 space mysteries that scientists can't explain
It's no secret that space is full of mysteries.Our species has barely gone past our own planet's moon, and only one of our probes, Voyager 1, has even left the solar system. Much of what we've learned...
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Here's why NASA is planning to fire lasers on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover is still science-ing it up on Mars, but the space agency is already scheming their next trip.Mars 2020, which NASA plans to launch in July of 2020 for a February 2021 arrival,...
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SpaceX is about the launch a key component for future manned space...
On Monday at 12:45 am ET, SpaceX will launch its ninth Dragon capsule into space, stuffed with 3,800 lbs of cargo and science experiments. Instead of attempting to land its famed Falcon 9 rocket on a...
View Article7 space mysteries no scientist can explain
We've made some incredible space discoveries in the last few years, like gravitational waves and liquid water on Mars. But considering we've explored only a teeny-tiny corner of the universe, there's a...
View ArticleSpaceX just successfully launched a key component for future manned space...
On Monday at 12:45 am ET, SpaceX launched its ninth Dragon capsule into space, stuffed with 4,900 lbs of cargo and science experiments.via GIPHYThe Dragon capsule is currently the only spacecraft able...
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Soon we'll hear what Mars sounds like
We all love that feeling of "being there" when it comes to missions to other planets. Juno's arrival at Jupiter, New Horizons' flyby of Pluto and the daily upload of raw images from the Mars Curiosity...
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See incredible photos of SpaceX's midnight rocket launch
There's nothing quite like a midnight rocket launch lighting up the sky:SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft full of supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station at 12:45 a.m....
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This space telescope just uncovered more than 100 new planets, many of which...
In May, NASA blew our minds when it announced that it had discovered 1,284 planets outside our solar system using the Kepler space telescope. This more than doubled the number of known Kepler...
View ArticleA new discovery on this giant asteroid could mean aliens lived there
Newly discovered materials on the distant asteroid Ceres leads to speculation that aliens may have once called it home. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig.Follow BI Video:...
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Here's which SpaceX rocket will be reused 1st to make a monumental 2nd trip...
The time for SpaceX to finally test its reusable rocket technology is quickly approaching.In June, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that we could see one of the retrieved Falcon 9 rockets be reused as...
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The threat of China's space station crashing into a city is part of a much...
China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, has hit the headlines after satellite trackers suggested it might be out of control and about to crash to Earth – potentially into a populated area.So should we...
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Forget what you heard: Jupiter does not orbit the sun
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, and subject of the Juno mission, is huge. Huge.It's so huge, in fact, that it doesn't actually orbit the sun. Not exactly. With 2.5 times the mass of...
View ArticleThis is what the sun would look like if it were somersaulting through space
For seven hours on July 6, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) did a 360 degree spin, on one axis, through space.By taking images every 12 seconds and then colorizing the ultraviolet wavelengths of...
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Jupiter came this close to being Earth's second, blood-red sun
Juno has arrived at Jupiter to collect data on the largest planet in our solar system.But if things had gone a bit differently during the emergence of our solar system, the Juno mission wouldn't be a...
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Scientists just launched fungi from the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl...
On Monday, eight species of fungi gathered from Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX rocket.Scientists hope to...
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8 of the world's coolest telescopes that are changing the way that we look at...
Astronomy has come a long way over the past few millennia.We went from believing that Earth was the center of a star speckled universe, to being able to observe a seemingly endless number of galaxies...
View ArticleNASA put together this awesome movie of Juno approaching Jupiter and its moons
About three weeks before NASA's Juno spacecraft entered its orbit around Jupiter, it began to take images of its approach. NASA compiled these images to create an awesome time-lapse movie of Juno's...
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Here's what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks like in the new 'Star Trek' movie (AMZN)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is in the next "Star Trek" movie. But you probably won't be able to recognize him.Here's a photo of what Bezos looks like in "Star Trek: Beyond," courtesy of the film's director...
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Astronomers say we could be just 10 years away from finding alien life
On May 2, an international team of astronomers announced that they had discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets, all orbiting the same star (TRAPPIST-1) just 40 light-years from us.The scientists...
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