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A new NASA video shows exactly what Cassini saw and where during its 'first...
In late April, NASA's Cassini spacecraft began a series of potentially dangerous dives, or "ring crossings," between Saturn and its innermost rings of ice.Many of the new images it beamed back looked...
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Scientists say the Ewoks in 'Star Wars' should have suffered a gruesome fate...
There is something gravely wrong with the ultimate fate of the Death Star, a moon-size weapon in the "Star Wars" movies, and physicists think you should know about it.The Death Star meets its final...
View ArticleStephen Hawking just set humanity a 100-year-deadline to colonize other...
In an upcoming BBC program, Stephen Hawking has a new message for humanity: Get off Earth within the next 100 years or perish. In order to survive as a species, humans must colonize other planets.But...
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Unmanned US Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two...
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Here's everything we know about the mysterious Air Force plane that just...
The US military's X-37B space plane landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, ending its record-breaking 718-day orbit with a sonic boom during its first landing in Florida.The US Air Force has...
View ArticleThe US Air Force's top secret space plane lands after 2 years in orbit — and...
On May 7, the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida got a loud surprise. One of the Air Force's two secret X-37B space planes announced its re-entry to Earth with a loud sonic boom.The plane...
View ArticleHere's how astronomers study the edge of the universe
As far as we know the universe is not infinite, there's actually a place where it ends. While astronomers have never actually seen the edge of the universe, they know it's out there. Theoretical...
View ArticleHere’s how astronauts carry out simple, everyday tasks in space
When you don't have gravity, you have to do things a bit differently. This is how some astronauts live with it on the International Space Station.Follow Tech Insider:On FacebookJoin the conversation...
View ArticleThe Big Bang is not the beginning of our universe — it’s actually the end of...
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explores what existed before the Big Bang. Read more of Carroll's insights in his latest book "The Big Picture," which is now available on paperback. Follow...
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Scientists have found a mysterious 'puffy' planet with the density of styrofoam
Astronomers have found a giant exoplanet larger than Jupiter, but with extremely low mass - a composition that gives this mysterious 'puffy planet' a density very similar to styrofoam.The team who...
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If aliens existed on Mars, they might have lived in oasis-like pools
Mars used to have oceans, but they began to dry out roughly 4.2 billion years ago.However, oasis-like pools of water may have sheltered any microscopic alien life.New maps reveal that shallow pools...
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A strange and beautiful 'Manhattanhenge' sunset is about to happen in New...
NEW YORK — Twice each summer, the sun, Earth, and (functional) monuments of human industry create a spectacle of light called "Manhattanhenge": when the sunset aligns perfectly with the city's gridded...
View ArticleThe 5 biggest discoveries from NASA's Cassini spacecraft that changed our...
For the last 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied on Saturn and its many moons. Turns out, this region of space could hold the greatest secrets of our solar system. Here are 5 of the most...
View ArticleHere's how long humans could survive in space without a spacesuit
Why are astronauts always wearing those bulky suits? You don't NEED them, do you? Here's what would really happen to an exposed human in the void of space.Follow Tech Insider:On FacebookBelow is a...
View ArticleA growing human-made bubble in space could be great news for our future on...
Humans aren't just changing the surface of Earth, we're also changing the space around us. We've created a bubble around Earth that NASA probes discovered. It's invisible to the naked eye but could...
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Astronauts may wear eight-legged 'spider' spacesuits to crawl on the moons of...
When the first astronauts reach Mars in the 2030s, they'll never set foot on the planet's surface. Instead, NASA wants its plucky human crew to orbit the desert world for about a year, then return...
View ArticleA mysterious force is pushing the universe apart — here's how it could rip...
Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains one of the most prominent theories of how our universe will meet its...
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A critical computer has failed on NASA's $100 billion space station and...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for an emergency spacewalk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major US...
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NASA has sent 2 astronauts outside its $100 billion space station to make an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday for a hastily planned spacewalk to replace a computer that failed on Saturday, the National...
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Jupiter has 'rivers' of ammonia and 870-mile-wide cyclones swirling across...
Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a...
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