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This private company just became the first to get an official green light to...
On Tuesday, Moon Express, a privately funded commercial space company, announced that it has gotten official permission to land on the moon.Moon Express is the first private company given the green...
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North Korea: We're going to the moon in the next ten years
North Korea is aiming to plant a national flag on the moon within the next ten years, a senior official with Pyongyang’s version of NASA told the Associated Press in a report published Thursday.Hyon...
View Article3 horrifying ways the world could end
Earth's ability to sustain life will not last forever. Scientists predict that, billions of years from now, Earth will cease to exist.Here are a few of the ways scientists say that might...
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This weird hexagon on Saturn has puzzled scientists for decades
Thirty years ago, scientists discovered an intriguing structure on Saturn’s north pole. Nothing even resembling this structure has ever been seen on any other planet ... in the entire universe.The...
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China and NASA may work together in space, ending decades-old freeze on space...
One small drive from the US embassy in Beijing last month may yet prove to be a giant leap for cooperation between the American space agency Nasa and China’s space programme.In mid-July, a US embassy...
View ArticleForget Rio — hosting the Olympics on the Moon would produce some incredible...
With the Summer Olympic Games upon us, we will marvel at the incredible skill demonstrated by athletes from around the world. But what if those skills were amplified by the lesser gravity of the moon?...
View ArticleThe moon was once a giant ball of magma, and there are still volcanoes on it
The moon has volcanoes, but they’re not like the ones here on Earth. NASA scientists have been studying the eruptions for years, and now China’s lunar lander, Chang’E-3 has unraveled these volcanic...
View ArticleThe most hostile moon in space just got worse
The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely collapse for the very first time.Produced...
View ArticleHarvard and Oxford astrophysicists have an unsettling revelation for why we...
Astrophysicists from Harvard and Oxford revealed a reason why we haven't found aliens, and it all has to do with time. Produced by Eames Yates. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig.Follow BI Video: On...
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How a college dropout went on to invent one of the most groundbreaking...
It was one of the biggest announcements of 2016. Using two gigantic detectors, scientists were able to detect something amazing — ripples in the fabric of spacetime generated by two colliding black...
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Stardust trapped deep within the ocean reveals a 2.6-million-year-old mystery
A little under three million years ago, a massive star exploded in our galaxy about 300 light years away.This supernova was so close to our planet that, depending on where it went off, our evolutionary...
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Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it
You'd be right to doubt whether or not Jupiter actually orbits the sun, or if you could survive the planet's sickening radiation belt, but make no mistake about its size.At more than 89,000 miles in...
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A slight nudge from Jupiter will make the most popular meteor shower of the...
The Perseids, the most-watched meteor shower of the year, are happening right now.As our planet spins through the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet, tiny grain-of-rice-size bits of debris smack into our...
View ArticleScientists are gearing up for a space mission that could solve the biggest...
Scientists are beginning to plan a space mission to Saturn's most interesting moon, Enceladus.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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The 10 most beautiful planets people have found so far in 'No Man's Sky'
One of the most anticipated games of the year, "No Man's Sky," just came out and people are taking to social media to share some of the incredible planets they've discovered so far.In "No Man's Sky,"...
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Here's the simple tool scientists hope will unravel the mystery of how...
If you've ever looked into how your microwave oven turns a frozen hunk of food into a delicious meal, you've probably stumbled on the fact that the magic happens because microwaves heat up water.But it...
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Thousands of tiny robots will look 11 billion years back in time to solve one...
An army of 5,000 tiny robots has been given a giant mission.Under the command of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), the robot soldiers will peer 11 billion years back in...
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Scientists just answered a huge question about one of Saturn's moons
The Grand Canyon is one of the most majestic spots on Earth, and a stunning testament to the power liquid has to shape rock.But scientists just announced it isn't alone in the universe. On Saturn's...
View ArticleA forgotten ‘city under the ice’ holds a government secret that could poison...
This forgotten US army base from the Cold War used to be the location of the government's secret "Project Iceworm." Researchers recently discovered that several toxic and radioactive substances were...
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There's a mysterious object doing a crazy loop around our solar system — and...
Scientists have found a mysterious object orbiting just beyond Neptune, and it's breaking all the rules.Astronomers have nicknamed it "Niku," which means rebellious in Chinese, because of the object’s...
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