Jeff Bezos’ space company is going to blow the top off of its rocket on...
Blue Origin has big plans to launch humans into space. But one of the first precautions in any space endeavor is safety. That's why Blue Origin has outfitted its New Shepard reusable rocket with an...
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Leonardo DiCaprio was joking about wanting to go to Mars as soon as possible
Leonardo DiCaprio has achieved so much as an actor on earth, you might think he's getting a little bored of life on the planet.Well, he teased a certain interest in Mars recently, but it looks like he...
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The fascinating and terrible things that would happen to you if you tried to...
What if you tried to fly an airplane on Mercury, Venus, and every other planet in our solar system?Well, you couldn't do it with just one person — or even with just one plane. Along the way, the harsh...
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The idea that SpaceX's rocket was sabotaged is 'pretty much a joke,' says...
On September 1, a SpaceX rocket burst into flames during a routine launchpad test, destroying a $200 million satellite that Facebook planned to lease.An ongoing investigation into the fireball, which...
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These hidden stars were just revealed for the first time, thanks to a cosmic...
About 1,600 light years away, in the constellation Orion, an interstellar cloud of gas and dust called Messier 78 is hiding a stellar nursery of young and unborn stars.As explained in a press release,...
View Article40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here's what it says
In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The craft carried a golden record that contained a message to aliens from the people of Earth. Here's what it said.You can now...
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Massive dust storms could threaten plans to colonize Mars and save humanity —...
If you've seen "The Martian," you might remember the violent dust storm that kicked off the movie. It was the one that pummeled the crew with 105 mph winds, struck Matt Damon's character with a rogue...
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Boeing says it will beat SpaceX to Mars
Less than a week after SpaceX founder Elon Musk detailed his vision to get people to Mars, a rival aerospace company has intimated that it plans to beat Musk (and everyone else) to the punch.However,...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket just stuck a double landing
Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin just scored an impressive double victory, aceing an experimental safety manoeuvre that could in a few years save the lives of human passengers travelling...
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How astronomers are using virtual universes to understand our own
Astronomers face a unique problem.While scientists from most fields can conduct experiments—particle physicists build massive particle colliders to test their theories of subatomic material, and...
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Hurricane Matthew: A 'potentially disastrous' storm that looks ominous from...
Hurricane Matthew is about to barrel into southeastern United States as a monster category 4 storm.The cyclone is so powerful that meteorologist Eric Holthaus, in a post for the Pacific Standard, has...
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These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth
The next time someone asks you where the biggest ocean is, point them toward Jupiter.While Earth harbors about 320 million cubic miles of water, our planet is practically a desert compared to the rest...
View ArticleWe’re on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy — here’s what will...
In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other apart, eventually creating one...
View ArticleThis could be the most beautiful science movie ever made
Terrence Malick has released his first documentary in IMAX theaters. "Voyage of Time" is a visually stunning film that covers the entire history and potential future of the universe. Brad Pitt and Cate...
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The strongest evidence of the big bang was almost mistaken for pigeon droppings
It was the low, hissing sound of static, like what you might hear if you tuned your radio between stations. The year was 1963, and all Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias, a pair of radio astronomers at...
View ArticleAstronomer have discovered the oldest stars in our galaxy, which could solve...
Astronomers have spotted what they think could be the oldest stars in our entire galaxy. These stars were found within a dense star cluster — called a globular cluster — at the center of the Milky Way...
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A multinational group wants you to join 'Asgardia' — the first outer-space...
A new country called Asgardia, named after Norse mythology's city in the skies, could be the first nation ever created in space. The hope is to embark on a mission to mine asteroids and defend Earth...
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A newly discovered dwarf planet could help us find the elusive 'Planet Nine'
About 8.5 billion miles away from the center of the solar system, a small dwarf planet orbits our sun.Unknown and undetected for millennia, this planetary body, known as 2014 UZ224, is among the most...
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Astronomers may now fully understand why the sky is dark at night
Each time we gaze up at the night sky, we take for granted that it's a pitch-black void studded with twinkling stars.This is called Olbers' Paradox, and though the idea was posed in the 1500s, it still...
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A space station camera has recorded extremely detailed video of North Korea's...
From a lofty perch about 250 miles above Earth, an ultra-high-definition video camera called Iris is recording unprecedented views of the planet — including the capital cities of secretive regimes like...
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