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Here's how to get an amazing view of the planet Venus this winter
Tonight — October 24, 2016 — or any evening between now and about next March, look for the brilliant planet Venus to light up the twilight sky after sunset. Given a clear view in the sunset direction,...
View ArticleThe odds of alien life are ‘fundamentally infinite’ — according to world...
Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield chats about the existence of aliens and extraterrestrial life. Hadfield is the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space and the best-selling author of "An Astronaut's...
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Elon Musk just shared his ambitious 4-step plan for colonizing Mars with a...
Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually ruins Earth. And he wants it to be somewhat affordable — $200,000 or less per person.To that end,...
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Some strange activity on the sun is supercharging the Northern Lights
Yesterday, officials announced that a "moderate" geomagnetic storm would hit Earth, and then gradually weaken over the next 24 to 48 hours. Caused by Earth's transition into strong solar winds blasted...
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If this is what Elon Musk's Mars spaceship will look like on the inside, we...
On September 27, Elon Musk laid out his audacious plan to launch a million people to Mars at $200,000 a ticket and save humanity from certain death on Earth.But in sharing detailed images of giant...
View ArticleOur goal of finding life on Mars could be jeopardized if we send humans to...
"We have perhaps two more decades before the inevitable contamination of Mars." That's a quote from Emily Lakdawalla, senior editor of The Planetary Society in a Washington Post article. Our microbes...
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Here's how space would look if you had superhuman vision
Thanks to a $50 million radio telescope array in the Australian outback, astronomers can now explore an extra-superhuman view of space.And so can you.On the clearest of nights, and in the darkest areas...
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A depressing new photo shows the smoking crater left by a European spacecraft...
One-half of Europe's ambitious mission to Mars not only crashed into red dirt, but also exploded upon impact and left a crater as wide as a car.That's the depressing conclusion of the European Space...
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NASA just received the last close-up photos of Pluto that humanity may ever take
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the last bit of data from its 2015 flyby of Pluto.The picture — one of a sequence of shots of Pluto and its big moon, Charon — arrived earlier this week at...
View ArticleHere’s how much damage an asteroid would cause if it hit Earth
NASA tracks more than 10,000 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in space. Millions of years ago, one of these NEOs hit Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. No person has ever been killed by one in recorded human...
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Relax, the universe is still expanding at a faster and faster speed
There's been a whirlwind of commentary of late speculating that the acceleration of the expanding universe might not be real after all.It follows the publication this month of a new look at supernovae...
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Just months after Apollo 11, NASA sent men to the moon with porn strapped to...
In November 1969, astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean rode a lunar lander down to the moon's Ocean of Storms while module pilot Dick Gordon orbited overhead.Conrad and Bean were on their way...
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Stunning satellite images show just how much people have changed the Earth
Ever heard of the "Overview Effect?"Essentially, it's when astronauts, who are seeing Earth from a great distance, suddenly have a mental clarity — a new understanding on what it means to be alive, and...
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NASA is close to finishing a golden space telescope — now it must torture the...
The slog to finish the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA's tennis-court-sized successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope, has been grueling.It's taken nearly 20 years, billions of dollars, and...
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NASA is trying to keep part of its giant golden telescope a secret
NASA on Wednesday announced a huge milestone in its $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope mission: the completion of the observatory's gigantic golden mirror.To commemorate the moment, the space...
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Depressing new photos show Europe's Mars probe exploded into pieces
When the European Space Agency (ESA) lost contact with half of its ambitious ExoMars 2016 mission — the Schiaparelli lander — on October 19, the probe was falling from the Martian sky like an...
View ArticleBeautiful images of Earth reveal how much humans have changed it in ways...
Nature creates beautiful landscapes like no human can. On the other hand, humans can create grand scale artificial structures that can never be made through a natural process. These photos from book,...
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Stephen Hawking: finding aliens could be 'the best, or the worst thing, ever...
When the potential of intelligent alien civilisations comes up in conversation, it’s usually about the search.How will we find them? Where are they? Are they there at all? What actions should we take...
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The only American in outer space has voted
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The lone American off the planet has cast his vote from space, keeping with NASA's motto of "Vote while you float."NASA said Monday that astronaut Shane Kimbrough filed his...
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Escape Election Day hell with 2,540 gorgeous new photos of Mars
Tuesday marks the 58th quadrennial US presidential election, bringing to a close one of the most contentious campaign seasons in memory.Which means you're probably stressed out of your gourd and...
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