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Earth has shockingly little water and ice compared to these ocean worlds
Astronomers on Wednesday announced that Pluto, located a chilly 3 billion miles away from the sun, likely hides a giant ocean.But it's not the only world in the solar system that's swimming in water,...
View ArticleWhat would happen to the Earth if the moon exploded
Neal Stephenson’s 2015 sci-fi novel “Seveneves” begins with, “The moon blew up with no warning and no apparent reason.” It turns out that scientists think his ideas of what might happen next are...
View ArticleHere's what hyper-advanced aliens might look like
What would hyper-advanced aliens even look like if we could find them. Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York, and author of "The Copernicus Complex," Caleb...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson reveals the biggest misconceptions people have about the...
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains some of the biggest misconceptions we have about the universe.Follow Tech Insider: On FacebookStarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil...
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A study of NASA's 'impossible' space thruster just passed scientific peer review
After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published. And it shows that the 'impossible' propulsion system really does...
View ArticleThis 3-minute animation will change the way you see the universe
Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H2O molecules in just 10 drops of water than...
View ArticleNASA released a stunning time-lapse of Saturn that shows the planet for...
Last April, NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared at Saturn for almost 44 hours straight. This time-lapse condenses those 44-hours into less than 2 minutes. Enjoy!Video courtesy of NASAFollow Tech Insider:...
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Astronomers just discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe...
Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the universe.Called the Vela supercluster, the newly discovered object is a...
View ArticleNASA did something unusual when they tested their next-generation rocket engine
NASA recently released slow-motion footage of an SLS booster rocket engine being tested. Part of the Space Launch System scheduled to launch in 2018, NASA left the nozzle plug inside the booster —...
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Controversial game 'No Man's Sky' just got its first major update — here's...
Despite being the pet project of a dozen or so game developers working out of Guildford, England, "No Man's Sky" was pitched to millions of people as a major, blockbuster game.Explore the vast reaches...
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How to get involved with NASA: Crowdsourcing ideas for Mars houses, robots,...
Since 2011, NASA has been using crowdsourcing to help them solve some of the problems that crop up on the International Space Station (ISS), from coming up with solutions to the difficulties of...
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A giant experiment that cracked a 100-year mystery of physics just came back...
In February 2016, physicists declared the century-long search for gravitational waves was over.Einstein predicted the existence of such ripples in the fabric of spacetime in 1915, but he doubted their...
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is being emergency evacuated from the South Pole
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Thursday morning that it will provide a "humanitarian medical evacuation flight" from the South Pole for an "ailing" Buzz Aldrin.Aldrin was the second...
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SpaceX wants to launch 10 satellites in December — but has yet to publish a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX hopes to return its Falcon 9 rocket to flight on Dec. 16, said Iridium Communications Inc IRDM.O, which plans to have 10 of its...
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Pluto is hiding a gigantic liquid ocean you would never, ever want to swim in
Pluto is hiding a very big secret some 3 billion miles away from Earth: a vast ocean of liquid water.If you could suck all of the liquid from below the dwarf planet's icy shell, it might amount to a...
View ArticleA space engineer explains why humans will never go past Mars
Louis Friedman, an aerospace engineer and author of "Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars," believes that humans may never travel past Mars. The former head of The Planetary Society says...
View ArticleNASA used this modified 747 to create the world's largest flying telescope
NASA has converted a 747 jumbo jet into a flying telescope. The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars.Video courtesy of...
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This galaxy is being destroyed from within by a supermassive black hole
Some 150 million light-years away, a bizarre galaxy surrounded by swirling, cloud-like tendrils has provided an ongoing mystery for scientists, but new observations are starting to give us some...
View ArticleNASA's 5-step plan for handling the chilling discovery of a giant asteroid...
If there's a giant asteroid expected to hit Earth, NASA and FEMA are responsible for getting the news out. These two agencies have performed multiple doomsday test runs to make sure that, if the day...
View ArticleNASA just spotted a massive hole growing on the sun — here’s what it means
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just spotted a massive hole on the sun called a coronal hole. The hole appears black because it's cooler than its surroundings and is responsible for high-speed solar...
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