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Elon Musk has published an outline of his audacious plan to colonize Mars...
In September, the tech mogul Elon Musk walked onto a stage in Guadalajara, Mexico, and laid out his vision to colonize Mars with his company SpaceX.The talk was bold for a couple of reasons. First, the...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is creating a ‘Space Odyssey’ video game about space...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is making a video game about space exploration.Or trying to, anyway — the Kickstarter for the project went live on June 13 and runs through July 29. At the time of...
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Total solar eclipses are going extinct
In 1695, Edmond Halley discovered that eclipses recorded in ancient history did not match calculations for the times or places of those eclipses.Starting with records of eclipses in his day and the...
View ArticleNASA's 5-step plan for when it discovers a giant, killer asteroid headed...
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...
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A NASA rocket is going to blast colored clouds into space — here's how to see...
Update: Due to poor weather conditions, NASA delayed the launch to Sunday, June 18, between 9:05 and 9:20 p.m. EDT.NASA is launching a rocket that will create colorful clouds in space.The rocket launch...
View ArticleAstronomers solved the 22-year-long mystery behind the coldest place in the...
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the universe. But why this regions of space is colder than space itself has remained a mystery — until now.Follow Tech Insider:On FacebookJoin the...
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NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets — and 10 may be like Earth
NASA's has detected 219 possible new planets.About 10 of these new worlds may be Earth-size and habitable. The Kepler space telescope that discovered the new planets has so far found more than 4,000...
View ArticleScientists overlooked a major problem with going to Mars — and they fear it...
Scientists have long known high levels of radiation exists on Mars. But could it be so high that humans won't be able to handle when we get there? Following is a transcript of the video.Going to Mars...
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How to back up life on Earth ahead of a doomsday event
There are ten asteroids that the space organisation NASA said this month have been classified as "potentially hazardous" based on their size and their orbits in our Solar system.NASA has now identified...
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Stephen Hawking: 'I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth'
Back in May, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking made yet another doomsday prediction. He said that humanity has 100 years left on Earth, which knocked 900 years off the prediction he made in November...
View ArticleThe closest, most compelling places where we could discover the first alien life
"Are we really alone in the universe?" The answer may be closer than we think. Scientific evidence points to certain moons of Jupiter and Saturn that share chemical and physical characteristic that...
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Elon Musk spent $1 billion developing SpaceX's reusable rockets — here's how...
Rockets are as awe-inspiring as they are wasteful.These marvels of engineering typically become trash soon after launch, either by sinking into an ocean or crashing into a desert. It's a big reason why...
View ArticleWatch SpaceX launch and land its second used rocket of the year
SpaceX is on a roll.It has successfully launched and landed its second used rocket of the year. This makes 8 successful rocket launches for 2017, so far, and 12 overall rocket landings.SpaceX also...
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SpaceX has launched and landed another used rocket, saving what could be...
SpaceX on Friday kicked off the first of two rocket launches this weekend with a smashing success.The aerospace company, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, fired off a Falcon 9 rocket around 3:10 p.m....
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SpaceX launched and landed two rockets this weekend — here are stunning...
Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched two payloads into orbit over the weekend, and then landed the first-stage booster from each rocket onto one of the company's drone ships.On...
View ArticleAstronomers think there’s another planet in our solar system — here’s...
Astronomers have detected signs for another planet in our solar system. They have nicknamed it 'Planet 10'. Here is everything we know about it so far.Follow Tech Insider: On FacebookJoin the...
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This is the closest thing we have to a master equation of the universe
The Standard Model of particle physics is often visualized as a table, similar to the periodic table of elements, and used to describe particle properties, such as mass, charge and spin.The table is...
View ArticleUranus is officially the weirdest planet in our solar system
Uranus' magnetic field acts in a very different way from other planets. Understanding its nature could be key to finding alien life in the future. You can read more about the scientists' findings in...
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Making wine in space could be in our future, according to NASA
The INSIDER Summary:NASA has already been experimenting with growing produce in space, so why not wine grapes?NASA's principal vegetable investigator Gioia Massa said that growing wine grapes would be...
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