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An asteroid that’s just a fraction of a mile wide could obliterate New York City
Looking up into the night sky, it's hard to fathom that something up so high could come crashing down, leading to the kind of damage that wiped out the dinosaurs. It would take a huge rock to wipe out...
View ArticleSpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine yet just passed a critical milestone
SpaceX has shipped a Raptor engine to its base in Texas for testing, marking a key step forward in the company's goal to colonize Mars. The Raptor is capable of generating 500,000 pounds of thrust,...
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23 gorgeous photos of this week's stunning meteor shower from around the world
Early Friday morning, the annual Perseid meteor shower peaked.It's already the most-watched annual meteor shower, but this year's is extra special. That's because Jupiter happens to be in the right...
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NASA plans to build space right here on Earth
NASA is reaching out to private companies to help them create full-scale, Earth-based prototypes of space habitats that might one day house astronauts tasked with exploring the outer reaches of our...
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SpaceX just landed its 6th rocket — here are some incredible photos from the...
SpaceX did it again.After launching a telecommunications satellite into space at 1:26 a.m. ET on Sunday, August 14, the company landed the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at...
View ArticleHere's why you feel that sinking feeling on roller coasters
That sinking feeling you get on a roller coaster is the same feeling astronauts get in a free fall.Follow BI Video: On Twitter Join the conversation about this story »
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Evidence of Stephen Hawking's famous prediction about black holes was just...
Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at Technion University in Israel, has created an acoustic black hole and observed particles slipping out of its grasp, providing the strongest evidence to date of one of...
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China is about to launch an un-hackable satellite and take the lead in a new...
In the next few days, China plans to launch a quantum satellite into orbit around Earth.And with that rocket launch, the country is poised to take the lead in a new space race.That's because the...
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The edge of the universe is closer than scientists previously thought
The visible universe just shrunk by 320 million light-years in all directions, updating a famous calculation that physicists first made 13 years ago.If you're trying to calculate the size of the...
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Before we colonize space, we may want to colonize our own oceans first
We dream of putting humans on Mars, mining the moon, and looking for life on one of Jupiter's moons. But we forget sometimes that there are whole worlds left to explore here on Earth.And we rarely stop...
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An unexpected force of nature could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious...
The universe is governed by four fundamental forces.There’s gravity and electromagnetism, and then the lesser known weak and nuclear forces.But a group of theoretical physicists at the University of...
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These are the 8 easiest ways to earn money in 'No Man's Sky'
The massive new PlayStation 4 game "No Man's Sky" is all about exploring the vast reaches of space, all from the comfort of your couch. The game has a near-infinite universe, filled with alien planets,...
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11 wimpy galaxies are beating up our brightest explanation yet for a deep,...
Astronomers have a very big problem on their hands: Four-fifths of all the stuff in the universe can't be found, a cosmic mystery known as "dark matter."People have searched for tiny, hypothetical...
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Here's what factories in space could look like
Science fiction truly turned into reality in October 1957 when Sputnik was launched– humankind’s first step beyond the Earth.Since then, progress has been rapid. A significant number of men and women...
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6 images that show how violent and destructive the universe can be
The universe can be a pretty violent place.Supermassive black holes spin through space, stretching any hopeless matter that spirals too close into spaghetti-like strands.Giant stars collapse beneath...
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Countless infinitesimal black holes may be flying through space like cosmic...
First, the good news: You have not been killed by a black hole.The bad news is that it's possible the universe is teeming with microscopic black holes that formed at the dawn of time, all of them...
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The unbelievable life of the forgotten genius who turned Americans' space...
"There's no protocol for women attending," says a white man in a suit holding a sheaf of papers."There's no protocol for a man circling the Earth either, sir," Taraji P. Henson retorts in my favorite...
View ArticleChina just released the details of its most ambitious space mission yet
China's space agency just showed off its newest mission — a Mars probe set to launch in 2020.Video courtesy of Reuters.Follow TI:On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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Humanity's first photos of Earth from the moon would have been thrown away if...
Before an Apollo-era NASA could launch a few humans on top of a rocket and plop them down on the moon, it needed to find safe places to land.So from 1966 through 1967, the space agency launched five...
View ArticleA 24-year-old has a solution for one of NASA's biggest problems
When it comes to sending rockets to Mars, the biggest hurdle that NASA has faced is the amount of energy needed to carry a very small payload over such a long distance. Modern technology doesn't allow...
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