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NASA is now receiving the last photos ever taken by the Cassini probe at Saturn
NASA is destroying its Cassini spacecraft at Saturn on Friday.Earth is now receiving the probe's final batch of photos, which will be uploaded to NASA's servers by early Friday morning.The data will...
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NASA's groundbreaking Cassini probe is dead after 20 years of exploring...
The Cassini spacecraft was destroyed at Saturn on Friday around 6:32 a.m. ET.It took more than an hour for the probe's last signal to reach antennas on Earth.NASA's $3.26 billion mission was ended to...
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These may be the last close-up photos of Saturn we see for decades
This story was updated to include more final images from Cassini.Hours before its meteoric doom in the clouds of Saturn, NASA's Cassini probe on Thursday sent its final batch of photos to Earth.Cassini...
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NASA picked the 100 greatest images of Saturn from its Cassini mission — here...
After 13 years of orbiting Saturn and its moons, NASA's bus-size Cassini probe is now a puff of radioactive vapor in the planet's swirling clouds.Space agency leaders knew this day would come since...
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Saturn ruled this scientist's life for 40 years — here's why she needs NASA...
Linda Spilker began studying Saturn four decades ago at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory.She worked on the Voyager mission and was on the Cassini mission to Saturn, which recently ended, from start to...
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The sun’s strongest flare in 11 years might help explain a solar paradox
A series of rapid-fire solar flares is providing the first chance to test a new theory of why the sun releases its biggest outbursts when its activity is ramping down. Migrating bands of magnetism that...
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Scientists have discovered a potentially suicidal problem with going to Mars
Cosmic rays are a powerful type of radiation that pose a risk to astronauts.Beyond Earth's protective magnetic shield, they increase the risk of cancer and other health effects.The first Mars explorers...
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Australia is launching its first space agency
Australia is set to establish its first space agency.The development comes after much lobbying from figures in the local space tech industry, including Australian NASA astronaut Andy Thomas. In July,...
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Rapper B.o.B. has started a GoFundMe to buy satellites so he can prove the...
Last year, rapper B.o.B. officially joined the Flat-Earther club. That's after a series of bizarre tweets claiming the world has been "tremendously deceived" and that we all needed to "grow up" and...
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NASA wrapped its most famous spacecraft in aluminum kitchen foil — a...
NASA's twin Voyager space probes launched 40 years ago.Two months before launch, the space agency learned Jupiter's radiation and magnetic fields were stronger than expected.To protect the Voyagers,...
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NASA names new building after 'Hidden Figures' math genius Katherine Johnson
NASA has dedicated its newest building to Katherine Johnson, a pioneer research mathematician who worked at the agency from 1953 until her retirement in 1986. She and her colleagues inspired the book...
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NASA and Russia are going to work together on a new space station by the moon
In Spring of 2017, NASA revealed their plans for what the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket would be used for: to build the Deep Space Gateway, a space station in cis-lunar orbit that'll serve...
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Elon Musk is unveiling a new plan for conquering Mars with SpaceX — watch his...
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, is about to present an updated plan for colonizing Mars with 1 million people.The International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, is hosting...
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Elon Musk revealed a new plan to colonize Mars with giant reusable spaceships...
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, has presented an updated plan for colonizing Mars with 1 million people.The International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, hosted Musk's...
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There's a parking crisis in space
For many, locating a parking spot is the bane of city living.Apparently motorists spend an average of 90.5 hours (four days) over the course of a year trying to find somewhere to park. Surprisingly,...
View ArticleScientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries
There are regions in Pluto where huge ice structures exist. Scientists finally think they know how they are formed.Scientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries. In 2105, NASA's New...
View ArticleScientists won the Nobel Prize for detecting gravitational waves — here's why...
This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.The...
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Three scientists who helped discover gravitational waves just won the Nobel...
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the 2017 Nobel prize in physics goes to three scientists for their foundational work leading to the discovery of ripples in the fabric of space and...
View ArticleNASA and Lockheed Martin reveal their plans to build the first-ever Mars...
The race to Mars is on.Lockheed Martin and NASA have teamed up. Together, the 2 companies aim to build Mars Base Camp, the first Mars space station.It's scheduled to send a 6-person crew to orbit Mars...
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A $140 million prototype of a Mars colony is being planned for a desert near...
What might it be like to live on Mars?Bjarke Ingels Group — the architects behind the designs for Two World Trade Center in Manhattan and the Hyperloop One— has an idea.The firm is designing a city in...
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