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Our Favorite Shots From The Greatest Meteor Shower Of The Year
The Geminid meteor shower lit up the sky Thursday night with hundreds of streaming fireballs. Cloudy skies and street lights notwithstanding, the most intense meteor of the shower of year could be...
View ArticleNASA Snags An Amazing Video Of A Giant Asteroid 4 Million Miles Away
Using the Goldstone Solar System Radar scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory got these images of the Toutatis asteroid when it zoomed within 4.3 million miles of Earth early Wednesday morning.The...
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Felix Baumgartner Broke The Speed Of Sound In A 24-Mile Plunge To Earth
At 128,000 feet above the New Mexican desert, Felix Baumgartner steps outside his cramped space capsule onto a skateboard-sized platform. A bulky pressurized suit attached to an eight-pound helmet is...
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How A Team Of Scientists Dropped A One-Ton Science Lab On Mars Completely...
After seven unmanned minutes spent in terror, waiting for the culmination of decades of work, a scream of excitement shook the Curiosity rover's control room on August 5."Touchdown confirmed, we are...
View ArticleNASA Parodies Gangnam Style In This Hilarious Video
On Friday the ReelNASA YouTube account released a video parody of Psy's Gangnam Style. I just got around to watching it and it is hilarious. Here it is for you enjoyment:The Houston Chronicle got some...
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We Need An Armageddon-Style Plan To Prepare For Asteroid Impacts
In the Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon", Bruce Willis and his co-stars are given just 18 days to destroy a vast asteroid which threatens to wipe out life on Earth — a desperately short space of time...
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Listen Live As NASA Crashes Two Spacecrafts Into The Moon At 4,000 MPH
Just before 5:30 p.m. EST, NASA will crash two spacecrafts into a mountain on the moon. The GRAIL spacecrafts, called Ebb and Flow, were launched last September and entered the moon's orbit at the...
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Scientists May Have Found A 200-Mile River Of Oil, But It's On The Other Side...
NASA scientists say they've discovered a Nile-like river on Titan, the most Earth-like of Saturn's moons.Oh, and the river is made of oil."Titan is the only other world we know of that has stable...
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This Green View Of Saturn Is Glorious
NASA just released this amazing image of Saturn and it's rings in a grinchy green glory.The picture was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft while it was in Saturn's shadow. The sun is on the other side...
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NASA Is Naming New Moon Crash Site After Sally Ride
The spot on the lunar surface where NASA intentionally crashed its twin gravity-mapping moon probes today (Dec. 17) has been named after the late Sally Ride, America's first woman in space.The two...
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Alaska Finally Got Back Its Missing Moon Rocks
"The Last Frontier" has been reunited with the "final frontier" after the return of moon rocks that went missing in Alaska nearly 40 years ago.The tale of the tiny lunar pebbles' restoration to the...
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A Kid Could Do A Better Job Of Building A Gingerbread Mars Rover Than Caltech
The whiz-kids over at Caltech have gone ahead and built the world another Mars rover. Except this time it's made out of gingerbread, licorice, gumdrops and M&Ms.Caltech runs NASA's Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleA Group Of Engineers Is Building A Low-Budget Space Craft, Which They Plan To...
Vice magazine has a great article about DIY spaceflight out yesterday. These aren't big budget ventures like SpaceX, but a small group of scientists who are working to put a capsule into sub-orbital...
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The Meteor That Streaked Over California In April Had The Energy Of Four...
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens must move quickly to trap evidence of a fresh meteorite fall.In 2008, a small asteroid roughly three meters across struck Earth’s atmosphere over northern Sudan,...
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Meteorite Found In California Contains Some Of The Oldest Material In The...
On April 22 of this year, an exploding fireball woke up parts of California and northern Nevada.To earthbound observers, the SUV-sized meteorite looked like a bright streak of green and white in the...
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Just Passed A Key Flight Test
The Virgin Galactic suborbital SpaceShipTwo has completed a key flight test at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California — an on-the-fly appraisal that serves as an important precursor to upcoming...
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The International Space Station Just Got Three New Visitors
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying the three newest residents of the International Space Station is set to dock with the high-flying laboratory on Friday morning (Dec. 21).Set to arrive at the space...
View ArticleAmazing Video Of Elon Musk's Reusable 'Grasshopper' Rocket In Action
Superhero entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX venture is working on something called the "Grasshopper Project," and the technology looks pretty impressive."We’ve begun testing reusability with something...
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Earth Escapes An Impact From A Massive Asteroid In 2040
After surviving the 2012 Mayan apocalypse, it seems Earth has been spared again. An asteroid previously thought to have a 0.2 percent chance of slamming into our planet in February 2040, no longer...
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The Last Full Moon Of The Year
The last full moon of 2012 happens on Friday, Dec. 28 at 5:21 a.m. EST. The full moon occurs when the sun, the Earth and the moon line up in that order. The Sun's light hits the side of the moon that...
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