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Space weather poses a threat to the finance industry
The conventional risks to finance – interest rate changes, currency fluctuations or just the outcome of a non-binding referendum – are well known.But there is another factor that can affect banking and...
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A rocket SpaceX was testing exploded on a launch pad in Florida
SpaceX was testing a Falcon 9 rocket at a Cape Canaveral launch pad when it was rocked by powerful explosions.SpaceX was scheduled to do a static test-fire of a 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket with no...
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A major SpaceX explosion just destroyed Facebook's first satellite
A major explosion during a SpaceX prelaunch test Thursday destroyed Facebook's first satellite.The satellite, AMOS-6, was a project of Facebook's Internet.org program to deliver internet to the...
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Here’s what you need to know about the SpaceX rocket that just exploded
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test fire Thursday morning:Here's a closer look at the Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's private space company.SEE ALSO: A rocket SpaceX was...
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A tiny particle just punched a hole into a huge satellite, and it signals a...
On August 23, a space particle the size of a tiny pebble smacked into the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinal-1A satellite, ripping a hole into one of its solar wings.The particle is just a...
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SpaceX's ambitious rocket launch schedule just blew up
The pain may just be starting for SpaceX after a Falcon 9 rocket catastrophically exploded on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a routine test.Although no one was hurt during the incident,...
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Here's what Elon Musk had to say about this morning's SpaceX explosion
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, tweeted that the company's Falcon 9 explosion on Thursday occurred as the rocket was being filled with propellant.Falcon 9 uses liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene...
View ArticleThe first video of the SpaceX explosion shows just how massive and sudden it was
There's now video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday morning.The organization US Launch Report captured the incredible footage of the incident. You can see the...
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Astronomers just discovered 2 of the closest-orbiting twin stars ever
Scientists have announced the discovery of a new binary star — a star system where two suns orbit around a common center of mass, much like the planetary neighborhood where a hopeful farmboy called...
View ArticleThis mysterious pyramid-shaped mountain in space is actually a gigantic ice...
The most mysterious structure on Ceres is a giant pyramid-shaped mound called Ahuna Mons. Scientists may now know what created it.Follow BI Video:On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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NASA found a mysterious ice volcano that's half the size of Mt. Everest on...
For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt.In the 1800s, Ceres was a small planet...
View ArticleA close-up look at the rare eruption in space that no one was expecting
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft caught a rare eruption in space.Produced by Keegan Larwin. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig.Follow TI:On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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The first photos of Jupiter's poles are 'like nothing we have seen or...
When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27, all we got was a fuzzy image of the gas giant from a glancing angle. But now scientists behind the mission are starting to trickle out...
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NASA just released a haunting video of Jupiter's clouds
NASA's Juno spacecraft became the first ever to fly above and below Jupiter on Aug. 27, and at a breakneck speed of 130,000 mph.Scientists say the images of the gas giant's north and south poles— the...
View ArticleNASA is bringing back one of its most experimental and dangerous programs
NASA's X-planes were some of the most experimental aircraft ever created. Decades were spent researching and developing the pioneering planes in order to accomplish goals like breaking the sound...
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SpaceX and NASA are finally saying more about Thursday's rocket explosion —...
More than a day after the fiery explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, both SpaceX and NASA have issued full statements.The rocket catastrophically blew up at a...
View ArticleThe Big Bang is not the beginning of our universe — it’s actually the end of...
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explores what existed before the Big Bang in his new book, "The Big Picture." Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video: On Twitter Join...
View ArticleA mysterious space rock on Earth could be the smoking gun for a long-lost...
Four billion years ago, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune battled for position within our solar system. But some scientists suspect that there was a fifth planet, similar in size to Neptune, that...
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A space probe laboratory could kickstart life on empty planets
Scientists could jump-start life on other planets within the next 100 years.That's according to Professor Claudius Gros from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, who...
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Here's a calendar of all the awesome cosmic events September has in store
Space may seem vast and empty, but it's bristling with all kinds of wild events: exploding stars, asteroid collisions, hiccuping black holes. There are also the more local events, the ones we can...
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