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Mysterious bursts of energy are coming from space, and astronomers can't yet...
The extremely energetic events that we see out there in the Universe are usually caused by cataclysmic astrophysical events and activities of one sort or another.But what about Fast Radio Bursts?A pair...
View ArticleThe terrifying things that would happen if NASA sent a human to Venus
Although Venus is easier to reach than Mars, scientists and space agencies around the world show little interest in exploring the planet. Why is it that they have so much enthusiasm in examining Mars...
View ArticleThis telescope can see a car on the Moon — here’s what it could find in space
In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for the first time. Their next telescope can do...
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High winds just blew away SpaceX's chance to launch a rocket on Tuesday
SpaceX on Tuesday delayed the launch of a rocket set to carry a commercial communications satellite into orbit, because of high winds at its Florida launch site.Wind gusts of up to 25 mph (40 kph) at...
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New 360-degree NASA video shows what it's like to get blasted by a moon...
The pieces of NASA's next-generation moon rocket are coming together — and firing up.In a wrap-around video released on Tuesday, the space agency showed off the mighty thrust of its RS-25 rocket...
View ArticleSurprise! Jupiter has rings like Saturn
Jupiter's rings aren't as famous as Saturn's but they're just as fascinating! Follow Tech Insider: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »
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NASA may take a $400 million hit under Trump's proposed budget
A budget proposed by the Trump administration, if accepted, may represent a hit of nearly half a billion dollars to NASA's future funding.The White House document, which covers discretionary spending...
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5 things I really don't like about the new 'Mass Effect' game
Maybe you've heard: There's a big new "Mass Effect" game launching next week."Mass Effect," if you're unfamiliar, is one of the most popular game trilogies of all-time — the first game launched in...
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I played the enormous new space opera, 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' — here's what...
"Mass Effect: Andromeda" takes the third-person shooter, space-epic video game series "Mass Effect" to an entirely new galaxy: Andromeda.Humans and other sentient species from the Milky Way galaxy have...
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Thousands of worlds may lurk beyond Pluto — and a stunning new animation...
A new animation shows the orbits of hundreds of dwarf planets beyond Pluto.The astronomer who compiled the data says it may capture only a small fraction of dwarf planets in the solar system.A new...
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Pluto may be a planet again if these astronomers get their way — and Earth's...
Pluto's status as a non-planet may be coming to an end.Professor Mike Brown of Caltech ended Pluto's planetary status in 2006. But now, Kirby Runyon, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University,...
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SpaceX may be about to drastically cut the cost of launching stuff into orbit
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial...
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A gigantic ring of galaxies could force physicists to rethink gravity as we...
Scientists have discovered that a gigantic ring of galaxies stretching 10 million light-years wide is speeding away from our own galaxy so fast, our current physics models can't explain it.Describing...
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Trump just signed a law that maps out NASA's long-term future — but a...
President Trump has signed the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017.The new law calls for a $19.5 billion NASA budget and asks the space agency to reach Mars by 2033.However, the law leaves out...
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This rogue planet contradicts what we know about how planets form
A giant rogue world once described as the "planet that shouldn't be there" looks like it actually formed out in deep space, far from its host star and the cosmic material that usually births planets,...
View ArticleThe mystery of a runaway star traveling 130,000 mph has finally been solved
Astronomers have observed a star that has been traveling across space at 130,000 miles per hour — 30 times faster than the other stars around it. The reason for its unusual speed was a mystery, until...
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The largest objects in the universe may be these deep-space magnetic fields
Galaxies don't drift freely through the empty void of space. Gravity organizes most of them into groups, called galaxy clusters, which can be tens of millions of light-years wide or larger.That makes...
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Elon Musk is 'not smiling' about the government's big new plan for NASA
On Tuesday, President Trump signed legislation S.442, giving NASA more than $19.5 billion in funding as well as an ultimatum — get to Mars by 2033.Notably, NASA isn't going to be dealing with the same...
View ArticleScientists have a new theory on why Earth was completely frozen 700 million...
Researchers at Harvard University are changing the way we think about Earth's largest glaciation event, "Snowball Earth." Find out how Earth's most chilling event took place.Follow Tech Insider: On...
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A British teenager pointed out a major error in the data NASA collects from...
A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.Miles...
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