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NASA has a brilliant plan to make the total solar eclipse last nearly 3 times...
The total solar eclipse of August 21 will track eastward across the US starting around 9 a.m. PDT.NASA will fly "eclipse jets" to make totality — when the moon blocks out the sun — last nearly three...
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A Russian billionaire has launched the smallest-ever spacecraft into orbit —...
Breakthrough Starshot, an ambitious project to explore a nearby star system, has launched its first prototypes into orbit.Each "sprite" spacecraft is about the size of a cracker and is equipped with a...
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Iran successfully tests a small rocket it will use to launch satellites into...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has tested its Simorgh (Phoenix) space launch vehicle which can be used to send satellites into space, state television reported on Thursday."The Imam Khomeini Space Centre was...
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We may all be made of extragalactic matter from far-flung stars, new study finds
Sagan famously said that we are made of star stuff. He meant the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our bodies, as well as atoms of all other heavy elements, were created inside stars. Yet Sagan’s...
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Astronomers just captured the most intense type of cosmic explosion in...
The most powerful kind of cosmic explosions known to science are called gamma-ray bursts – aka 'death from space' – galactic events so fierce their awesome intensity is only surpassed by the Big Bang...
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Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun
One of my daughter's favorite books is "Space Walk" by Salina Yoon. Each page shows a planet accompanied by a rhyming factoid about it.But each time I read it to her — sometimes three or more times a...
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North Korea has tested another intercontinental ballistic missile — here's...
North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday.ICBMs travel in a wide arc and can strike a target thousands of miles away with nuclear weapons.The missiles are similar in...
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This is what happens when you take 'Grand Theft Auto' into outer space
You can go anywhere in "Grand Theft Auto." Well, almost anywhere — you can't, for example, go to space.But you will be able to soon!Indeed, the final frontier is the latest place for you to venture in...
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Astronauts can see 'super typhoon' Noru from space, and their photos are...
Typhoon Noru is barreling northwest across the Pacific Ocean and taking aim at Japan, and possibly Korea or China, this weekend.Forecasters are intently tracking the storm. As of Sunday, it was a...
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17 'facts' about space and Earth that you thought were true — but have been...
Whenever someone asks me about outer space, I get animated.No surprise there. I've made a living speaking to experts and writing about it for more than a decade, and I've read obsessively on the topic...
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Antarctica's giant iceberg has been photographed in striking new detail
In early July, a rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf caused the third-largest iceberg ever recorded to break off.The block of ice, dubbed iceberg A-68, may hang around for years in the open sea,...
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Astrophysicists have figured out how to capture fine details of anti-matter...
It's been about nine months since a team of CERN researchers succeeded in their goal of measuring the spectrum of light emitted from hydrogen's mirror particle, antihydrogen.They were just getting...
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Venus may once have had an ocean, new evidence suggests
We tend to think of Mars as one of the few planets that, like Earth, may have (or have had) the potential to hold life, but our infernal sister-planet Venus may have also once had oceans. New...
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These unbelievable space images of Earth at night are a bunch of beautiful fakes
Nothing makes me feel more connected to the rest of the human race than seeing images of Earth from space, especially those taken at night.National borders vanish, and rivers of light unite our towns...
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The most spectacular meteor shower of the year peaks this week — here's how...
The Perseid meteor shower occurs each year in late summer.This year, the astronomical event peaks on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.A bright moon will make seeing the meteors more challenging, but NASA...
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‘Eclipse chasers’ pay up to $10,000 to fly into the moon’s shadow in...
For the first time in nearly 100 years, the shadow of a total solar eclipse is going to sweep across the United States.The umbra — the darkest shadow cast by the moon blocking the sun — will appear in...
View ArticleHow to watch a spectacular meteor shower and solar eclipse this month
Get ready to see two of the most spectacular cosmic events of this year. This is how to watch the meteor shower and solar eclipse of August, 2017.Follow Tech Insider: On FacebookJoin the conversation...
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5 questions about the upcoming solar eclipse, answered by an astronomer
A total solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Monday, August 21. Shannon Schmoll, director of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, explains why and how it happens, and what...
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How much fuel it takes to get to the moon
The new age space race is upon us as Elon Musk’s SpaceX gears up to send billionaires to the moon and NASA plans for upcoming missions this month at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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An 'absolutely phenomenal' discovery hints 4 Earth-size planets may orbit the...
Astronomers have detected what may be four roughly Earth-size planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the nearest sun-like star.Two of the worlds appear to orbit within Tau Ceti's habitable zone, though a cloud of...
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