Where, when, and how to watch this week's meteor shower created by Halley's...
Following is a transcript of the video.The Orionid meteor shower is happening this weekend. It produces some of the brightest meteors all year. The most meteors will fall between Oct. 20-22. Expect to...
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The Orionid meteor shower will fly over us this weekend — here's how to watch...
Over the weekend, the sky will be lit with a natural light show — provided it isn't too cloudy.The Orionid meteor shower will come into sight for those of us in the UK just before dawn on Saturday...
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These are the countries on Earth with the most junk in space
More than 4,600 satellites orbit Earth, along with more than 14,000 old rocket parts and pieces of space junk.The US is responsible for the most debris in space, followed by Russia and China.Experts...
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Japan just discovered the perfect spot to build a base on the moon
A Japanese satellite that crashed nearly 10 years ago is still revealing the Moon's secrets.The satellite revealed an enormous cave in the moon which would be ideal for a base.The cave is thought to...
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A spacecraft graveyard exists in the middle of the ocean — here's what's down...
Large satellites, space stations, and other objects can pose a threat when they fall to the ground.As a result, many nations de-orbit old spacecraft over the most remote place on Earth, called Point...
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Stephen Hawking's Cambridge PhD thesis has been published online for the...
The University of Cambridge has posted Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis online.The document, dated 1966, was submitted when Hawking was 24 years old.It examines details of Hawking's theory of an expanding...
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SpaceX has published Elon Musk's presentation about colonizing Mars — here's...
In late September, billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk debuted a fresh plan for colonizing Mars with 1 million people.The focus of Musk's new presentation, which updates a 2016 talk he gave at the...
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NASA finally has the map it needs to explore Europa for signs of alien life
Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter that harbors an ocean and might support alien life.Despite several flyby missions of Europa, no full geologic map of the moon previously existed.Scientists released the...
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Astronomers may have seen the first 'alien' space rock from beyond our solar...
Astronomers think they've detected a rock coming from a distant solar system for the first time.The extreme nature of the object's orbit suggests it hails from another star.But some scientists think...
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NASA sent one identical twin brother to space for a year and studied how it...
When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly stood up last March after spending a year in space, he was two inches taller.Kelly is part of a study NASA is conducting to assess how the human body changes as a result...
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These eerie space 'sounds' recorded by NASA are creepy enough to make your...
It's deathly quiet in the vacuum of space, save only for the faint whisper of gravitational waves.However, space scientists sometimes take signals from beyond the mortal realm of human senses —...
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Lego's all-female 'Women of NASA' toy set just went on sale — and it's...
Lego's new "Women of NASA" toy set went on sale for $24.99 on November 1.The product, which a female journalist pitched to Lego, features four famous women from the US space agency who are scientists,...
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Space travel squashes your brain and floods it with extra liquid
A new NASA study of 34 former astronauts reveals a number of effects that living in space has on the human body.Microgravity moves the brain upward and increases fluid pressure within the...
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What happens to a spacecraft once it dies?When a spacecraft completes its mission or runs out of fuel, it's sent to what NASA calls a Spacecraft Cemetery. Three thousand miles off the Eastern coast of...
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered a global disaster far worse...
A city-size asteroid or comet is thought to have killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.The impact, called the Chicxulub event, released unfathomable quantities of dust and gas, rapidly cooling the...
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A Beaver Moon is coming this weekend — here's what that actually means
The Beaver Moon peaks this weekend at 1:22 a.m. ET on Saturday.The phenomenon is also called a Frost Moon, but both names describe the same thing: the full moon.In fact, these two labels join dozens of...
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The price of Lego's 'Women of NASA' toy set is skyrocketing online under...
Lego released a new all-female "Women of NASA" toy set on Wednesday for $24.99.Amazon reportedly sold out of the product, which had become its best-selling toy.Third-party shops are now selling the...
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'The Martian' author Andy Weir is convinced we'll colonize the moon — but...
Andy Weir, author of sci-fi blockbuster "The Martian", is publishing a novel about the moon, "Artemis", on November 14.The book follows the misadventures of a witty female smuggler, Jasmine "Jazz"...
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Alien life may have had billions of years to brew inside Saturn's icy moon...
Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn, hides a global ocean beneath its crust of ice.Scientists could not explain how the ocean formed, however, nor how long it might have existed.New 3D computer models...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back stunning new photos of the gas...
Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 mph, NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24.But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more...
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