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Scientists have discovered the hottest planet in the universe
Scientists have found one of the craziest exoplanets yet. It's a huge gas giant not unlike our Solar System's own Jupiter, but it travels around its star in just 1.5 days, with a surface hotter than...
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This chart shows how you'll probably die
July 4 is approaching, so here's a small reminder: Be safe!Your chance of dying from a fireworks accident are small but not impossible.Drawing from data collected by The Economist from America's...
View ArticleNASA has been exploring Mars every day for the last 20 years — here's what's...
On July 4, 1996, the Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars. Since then, NASA has had at least one robot studying the red planet, slowly uncovering its secrets.Video courtesy of NASA. Follow Tech Insider:On...
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The whole universe fits in one image with a special trick of math
The universe is enormous — so vast that it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like in one image.But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the...
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A NASA rocket blasted colorful clouds into space — here's what they looked like
NASA launched a rocket that created colorful clouds in space on June 29.Such clouds are being used to probe two big holes in Earth's magnetic shield, called cusps.NASA Wallops Flight Facility released...
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China's new Moon rocket fails in flight
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, the Long March-5 Y2, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on Sunday, official news agency Xinhua...
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Scientists are getting closer to detecting hidden black holes
In brief: We have detected supermassive and stellar black holes, but those of intermediate-mass have been absent. New research suggests that the growth rate of black holes might explain this...
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NASA will soon take the closest-ever photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has blemished the planet's atmosphere for more than 350 years. It's about twice the size of Earth, and has winds that blow about 400 mph.The spot's grandeur is matched only by...
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What intercontinental ballistic missiles are, how they work, and why the...
North Korea reportedly launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Tuesday.ICBMs travel in a wide arc and can strike a target thousands of miles away with nuclear weapons.The...
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NASA is about to fly over Jupiter's biggest storm for the first time — here's...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm twice as wide as Earth. It has lasted more than 350 years.Using the Juno spacecraft, NASA will take its closest-ever photos of the giant storm on July 10.Business...
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NASA photographed a huge avalanche from space in what it calls 'a stroke of...
A mountain scientist has discovered a rare picture of an avalanche taken by a NASA satellite more than 20 years ago.That an avalanche was photographed from space is "a stroke of luck," NASA's Earth...
View ArticleWhat NASA could do with the US military's budget
NASA has been a household name for Americans since the '60s when it achieve the seemingly impossible, landing a human on the Moon.Since then, NASA has explored the surfaces of Mars and Saturn's moon...
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Poland is about to launch a fake Mars colony on a hilltop
A group affiliated with the United Nations is launching a fake Mars and moon colony.Called M.A.R.S., the faux habitat is located in the remote countryside of southern Poland.Six volunteer astronauts...
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4 students in China just locked themselves inside a pretend moon base — and...
Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant...
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A strange and beautiful sunset is happening in New York City this week —...
Twice each summer, the sun, Earth, and monuments of human industry create a spectacle of light in New York City called "Manhattanhenge."On four days — two before the summer solstice and two after — the...
View ArticleNASA's $1.1 billion spacecraft is about to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
Right now, NASA's $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter. It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest...
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NASA will fly closer to Jupiter's Great Red Spot tonight than ever before —...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm about twice as wide as Earth.Using the Juno spacecraft, NASA will take its closest-ever photos of the giant storm on Monday.Business Insider simulated what the best...
View ArticleAstronauts in space have recorded a breathtaking new video of Earth's aurora
Auroras are one of the most beautiful and bewildering natural spectacles on Earth. But the view is even better from above.The faint green glow of auroras is caused by high-energy particles from the sun...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back breathtaking new images of the...
NASA's plucky Juno probe has returned its first close-up photographs of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and they are stunning.On Monday, Juno flew about 5,600 miles above the mysterious tempest — more than a...
View ArticleNASA has a plan to save Earth from deadly asteroids — and they’re getting...
Large asteroids colliding with Earth is extremely rare. However, if that happens, it could mean the end of civilization as we know it. NASA isn't taking any chances. It is currently developing DART, a...
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