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A tiny version of Hell on Earth exists in Cleveland, Ohio
Inside a windowless concrete room in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists have built a tiny version of Hell on Earth.Called the Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER), the 14-ton steel chamber can faithfully...
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SpaceX won't try to launch a rocket again until next year
SpaceX, it seems, won't get back to launching rockets until January 2017 at the earliest.The announcement, made via the company's website on Wednesday, comes less than a week after SpaceX's CEO Glenn...
View ArticleHow to watch the last brilliant meteor shower of the year — with shooting...
Stargazers could wrap up their year with watching the Geminids meteor shower. While some may be able to spot a few shooting stars during the Ursids meteor shower, which is later in the year, Geminids...
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John Glenn, who died Thursday, was the first American to orbit the Earth —...
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday at age 95.He went on to become a US Senator for Ohio, and returned to space in 1998 as the oldest astronaut ever at the age of 77."We...
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John Glenn wrote Jeff Bezos a beautiful letter that he read for the first...
The night pioneering astronaut John Glenn died, Jeff Bezos received a message from him.Smithsonian Magazine was honoring Bezos, founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, at the American Ingenuity...
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4 billion-year-old Grand Canyon-like craters on Mars could have been carved...
Like Earth, Mars has some deep canyons. Those on the Red Planet were carved out of its surface around 3.8 billion years ago. Scientists have debated about how they actually got there, and new research...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains the problem with the Death Star
Owning a Death Star comes with some serious risk, especially when it was constructed with a serious design flaw. But astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a more practical reason why the 'Star Wars'...
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Trump could replace Obama's asteroid catcher with a SpaceX-backed mission to...
When Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20, there's a good chance he could scrap one of President Obama's boldest visions for NASA: the asteroid redirect mission, or ARM.ARM would ostensibly launch a...
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Astronomers found evidence for a 'dark' gravitational force that might fix...
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts so much about the universe at large, including the existence of gravitational lenses or "Einstein rings."At the same time, however, Einstein's...
View ArticleCheck out this incredibly detailed look at an area of Mars that might have...
There is a valley called Mawrth Vallis on Mars. This video shows the spectacular views of the region.Video courtesy of European Space AgencyFollow Tech Insider: On FacebookJoin the conversation about...
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NASA has photographed a pearly white storm on Jupiter that's nearly as big as...
Massive storms whirl their way across the surface of Jupiter, the planet so massive that its gravity pulls at the sun, affecting its orbit.The most famous of these is the mysterious Great Red Spot, a...
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This beautiful photo shows the snow-covered Midwest moonlit from space
A series of snowstorms have swept across the Midwest in the past week, making a mess of roads and trailing freezing temperatures across the region.It's not much fun to trudge through, but it sure is...
View ArticleMars isn’t as Earth-like as you think — the coldest place on Mars looks...
Humanity's next destination could very well be Mars. But, unlike Earth, Mars is a harsh and unforgiving environment. Recently released images show the frigid conditions of Mars' poles.Follow Tech...
View ArticleScientists launched a pie into space and it came back in almost perfect...
A meat and potato pie was sent 100,000 ft into the sky to test it to the extreme. It took off from Wigan which is well known for its pies across the UK.Science enthusiasts SentIntoSpace did it to see...
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Russia had a secret, Cold War-era space station equipped with cannons
Back in 1968, three Apollo 8 astronauts circled the moon on Christmas Eve and returned home, where they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade and honored on the cover of Time. Far out of sight from...
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NASA scientist: Earth is overdue for a dinosaur-killing asteroid strike, and...
A NASA scientist has warned that if a gigantic asteroid heads towards our planet, there's pretty much nothing we can do about it. At the annual meeting of American Geophysical Union last week, the...
View ArticleHere is the exact path of next year's solar eclipse that everyone is waiting for
Next summer the moon's shadow will travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic for the first time in nearly 100 years. The total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. on August 21, 2017.Video courtesy of...
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This spacecraft will hunt for Trojan asteroids hiding close to Earth
Earth’s number of known Trojan asteroid might take a leap up (or not) in February 2017, when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft – on its two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu– passes near Earth’s...
View ArticleNASA thinks the first alien life we discover is going to look nothing like...
When we think of our first contact with alien life, many people imagine a small green humanoid in a flying saucer. The reality will be much different. NASA's Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan, explains...
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China says it is testing an 'impossible' new form of space propulsion on a...
The whole world got excited last month when NASA published the first peer-reviewed paper on the "impossible" electromagnetic, or EM, Drive, which appears to somehow defy physics by producing thrust...
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