Astronomers discovered that a gigantic storm on Jupiter is blazing hot — and...
Astrophysicists recently discovered that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is extremely hot. This new discovery could help explain a mystery that's plagued scientists for decades. Read more about the discovery...
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Scalding-hot temperatures above the solar system's largest storm might solve...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system. Located in Jupiter's lower atmosphere, this storm living is so big that you could fit two or three Earths inside of it. And this...
View ArticleHere's what you're actually seeing during Thursday night's beautiful meteor...
The Delta Aquarids meteor shower is peaking Thursday and Friday night. Experts expect to see up to 20 meteors an hour. So, if you're in the mood to see some shooting stars, find a safe, dark area far...
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Apollo astronauts are more likely to suffer heart problems, and we need to...
It’s been almost half a century since we first sent human beings to the moon and yet we’re still sorting out the effects of this wild journey.A new study published today in Scientific Reports found...
View ArticleScientists are freaking out over this cosmic phenomenon they never thought...
Scientists didn’t think a white dwarf and a red dwarf star system could have such a violent relationship.Video courtesy of NASA, ESO/L. Calçada/University of Warwick, and ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N,...
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What did your interns do last week? These ones just built and launched a...
Never doubt the power of interns. If you let them, they'll do their job — and build the world's largest amateur rocket.Just for fun.That's what United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Ball Aerospace interns...
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Scientists are one step closer to cracking the cosmic case of a dwarf...
Ceres is a 4.5 billion-year-old dwarf planet living in the clamorous asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It’s the largest object in this asteroid belt and throughout its long life, it should have...
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There's a twisted reason why this distant star flickers every couple of minutes
Every 1.97 minutes, 380 light years from Earth, a star in the constellation Scorpius brightens then fades.Recently, astronomers using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,...
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NASA's getting ready to plunge a spacecraft deeper into the sun than ever before
NASA is one step closer in its mission to “touch” the sun. Last week, it announced that the Solar Probe Plus mission had passed a huge milestone, keeping it on track for a 2018 launch.The Solar Probe...
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This is what astronauts eat on long voyages
NASA aims to one day land astronauts on Mars. However, even after more than 50 years of human spaceflight, much remains uncertain about what such explorers are going to eat on the long voyages to other...
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These colorful maps reveal how Earth would look if you could see gravity
Earth's gravity is the most overriding force in human history. This is so true that it feels silly to point out. It keeps us in our beds at night, pulls us back to the ground after every stride on a...
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5 reasons astronauts are the worst Pokémon Go players in the human race
Everyone on Earth seems to be playing "Pokémon Go," with a special emphasis on Earth.For better or for worse, NASA says astronauts in space can't play the hit game.The problem is that the International...
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The universe will be a frighteningly bleak place in a 'googol' years
"Where did we come from?" and "where are we going?" are two of my favorite questions as a human being.But taking the very longest view, the answer to both turns out to be shockingly similar, according...
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13 spectacular meteor showers that you won't want to miss
We call them "shooting stars."That's because they streak across the sky leaving behind thin glowing trails of light.But meteors aren't really stars at all. They're actually cosmic debris: Tiny specks...
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Scientists are peering millions of years back in time to get an inside look...
Thirty years ago, an exploding star 168,000 light years away appeared as a small pinpoint of light in the night sky.The supernova, known as SN 1987A, occurred in a neighboring galaxy called the Large...
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding nuclear fusion power
The universe is full of phenomena that we can’t fully explain: Black holes, exploding stars, rapidly spinning stellar corpses...In order to get closer to understanding these cosmic oddities, scientists...
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Check out some of NASA's unsung heroes — in Lego form
Despite the major contributions they've made to the U.S. space program, the women of NASA have struggled to get the recognition they deserve.Maia Weinstock, deputy editor of MIT News and...
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These vein-like features stretched across the surface of Mars can tell us a...
The surface of Mars is woven with beautiful gullies. Until recently, scientists thought that it was possible that liquid water played a role in carving out these vein-like channels.But now, NASA has...
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The sky is (literally) falling on Jupiter's most hellish moon
You're a Jovian lunar explorer in the year 2200. You've piloted your lander to the surface of Io, the smallest and innermost of Jupiter's four largest moons. Genetically modified to survive even the...
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There’s a void in the heart of the Milky Way, and it might change what we...
An international team of astronomers have called for a re-evaluation of our understanding of the Milky Way.The scientists found a desolate chunk of space surrounding the center of our galaxy that is...
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