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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken more stunning new images of the gas...
The flow of incredible images from the basketball court-sized robot NASA sent to Jupiter just won't stop.The $1 billion Juno spacecraft took five years to reach Jupiter and settle into orbit around the...
View ArticleThe US military and Boeing just teamed up to build a revolutionary spaceplane...
The Phantom Express is the latest spaceplane concept. DARPA and Boeing joined up to design an unmanned space craft that can carry 3,000 lb payloads on daily flights. Follow Tech Insider:On FacebookJoin...
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NASA has noticed a puzzling change in Saturn's hexagon, a weather system the...
A giant hexagon is swirling at Saturn's north pole, and scientists don't fully understand it, despite years of observation by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.The hexagon — a jet stream that traps an entire...
View ArticleHere's how close a supernova would have to be to wipe out life on Earth
Supernovas are created during the last moments of a star's life. These gigantic explosions can wipe out galaxies and the planets inside them. Should we be concerned about one being to close to our...
View ArticleHow to answer Elon Musk's favorite job interview question
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likes to ask one riddle in particular when interviewing candidates for a position with his company, according to the book "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic...
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Physicists want to 'listen' for these 7 bizarre phenomena in space using...
For the third time in two years, physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime, called gravitational waves, that Albert Einstein predicted the existence of more than 100 years ago with...
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Research shows microgravity strengthens bacteria — and that could be bad news...
A new study might have bad news for future space travelers. Madhan Tirumalai, Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Houston and part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, has discovered that bacteria...
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India's most powerful rocket has launched a satellite into orbit high above...
NEW DELHI — India launched a communication satellite using its most powerful rocket on Monday, improving its prospects of winning a bigger share of the more than $300 billion global space industry and...
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The moon's gravity does not fully explain how ocean tides work
When teachers explain ocean tides, they frequently describe how the moon's gravity pulls on Earth and all of its water.This, they often say, leads to a gravitational imbalance, which stretches the...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch the US Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp will fly its first mission for the US Air Force in August when it launches the military’s X-37B miniature space plane,...
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NASA just unveiled 12 new astronauts from its biggest pool of applicants in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, selecting seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation's next generation of...
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Astronomers have reconfirmed Einstein's most famous theory in a stunning way
Once again, scientists have confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes the way massive objects — like stars — cause space to bend.For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed...
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Elon Musk: SpaceX may launch its biggest and most powerful rocket in 3 months
Elon Musk has broken some tantalizing news about the biggest rocket ever built by his company SpaceX.If the tech mogul's plans hold, the new launch system, called Falcon Heavy, could liftoff for the...
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A NASA experiment could color the skies over the East Coast blue and red on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A high-flying science experiment may color the skies above the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast with bluish green and red clouds on Sunday evening, as NASA seeks to learn more...
View ArticleA supermassive star mysteriously vanished without warning and astronomers are...
The Hubble Telescope detected a vanishing star that lives around 22 million light-years from Earth. This phenomenon has never been seen before and it may indicate the birth of a black hole unlike any...
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Jupiter has been declared the most ancient planet in our solar solar system
Jupiter was an early bloomer. New measurements of meteorite ages suggest that the giant planet's core must have formed within the solar system's first million years. If so, Jupiter's presence could...
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The 'space nation' Asgardia will attempt its first launch this summer — with...
A non-profit organization called Asgardia is trying to form the first nation in space.Asgardia will launch a small satellite in summer 2017 as a means of establishing its presence in orbit.Hundreds of...
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A company that wants to balloon travelers into the stratosphere is launching...
A company called World View is about to launch fried chicken inside a space capsule.The publicity stunt, scheduled for June 21, is being bankrolled by KFC to promote its spicy Zinger chicken...
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Paul Allen’s rocket-launching plane is the biggest in the world — here is how...
The Stratolaunch plane is now the biggest in the world. Owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, its 385-foot wingspan bests the next biggest, Ukraine’s Antonov An-225 at 290 feet.The 500,000-pound...
View ArticleSpaceX's first mission to Mars will be unlike anything anyone has tried before
Elon Musk's private company SpaceX has big plans to usher in a new era of reusable rockets that could send the first humans to Mars and return them home. Here's how the company plans to land on the Red...
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