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The Air Force's 'rods from god' could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon...
The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth's orbit. What they didn't count on was the US Air Force's...
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SpaceX may have just launched an 'Apollo moment' for the space industry —...
SpaceX launched the world's most powerful operational rocket, called Falcon Heavy, on February 6.The company recovered two of the rocket's three reusable boosters and launched founder Elon Musk's red...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to launch the first of 11,925 internet satellites...
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, plans to launch a Spanish satellite on Saturday with a Falcon 9 rocket.However, the launch will also deploy two experimental communications satellites.The two satellites...
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Key government figures are backing SpaceX's plan to blanket Earth with...
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, hopes to launch nearly 12,000 satellites in the coming years.The proposed satellite constellation network would provide high-speed internet to most if not all of the...
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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster will eventually crash in space — and scientists...
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, recently launched the world's largest operational rocket on February 6.Falcon Heavy's launch sent Musk's personal 2008 red Tesla Roadster on a voyage toward Mars orbit...
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Trump wants NASA out of space station by 2025, businesses in
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead.Under President Donald Trump's 2019...
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Here are the most stunning images NASA has ever taken of our planet
While NASA is mostly known for studying the outer reaches of our solar system, it's trained countless satellites on Earth, giving scientists a cornucopia of data about our changing planet.But...
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Hotel billionaire Robert Bigelow is about to launch a new spaceflight company
Hotel chain mogul Robert Bigelow is announcing a new company on Tuesday.The new spaceflight venture is called Bigelow Space Operations, but few details are known about it yet.Robert Bigelow is working...
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may have only 10 to 20 years left before it dies
NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft flew over the Great Red Spot in July 2017.The probe provided the closest-ever photographs of the gigantic storm.However, planetary scientists think the Great Red Spot...
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Here's how much a top US astronaut can earn working for NASA
NASA astronauts must pass a grueling application process before being selected.Their annual salaries are determined using a government pay scale at two grades: GS-12 and GS-13.According to the 2018...
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A giant, years-long storm on Neptune is disappearing — and it's being caught...
A huge storm on Neptune is disappearing, and the Hubble Telescope is documenting it for the first time.The storm has led scientists to question their understanding of the prevailing dynamics of...
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SpaceX is about to quietly launch the first 2 of nearly 12,000 satellites to...
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday at 9:17 a.m. ET.The launch is expected to send up a Spanish company's radar satellite and two...
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A new company plans to launch huge, inflatable spacecraft into orbit — and...
On Tuesday, hotel billionaire Robert Bigelow announced the launch of Bigelow Space Operations.The new company will operate inflatable space stations called B330s, which are being developed by Bigelow...
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Trump's commerce secretary wants to turn the moon into a 'gas station for...
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said one of the Trump administration's goals is to turn the moon "into a kind of gas station for outer space." The idea has been floated before, with a recent study...
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Elon Musk just shared the first images of new SpaceX satellites that could...
SpaceX launched two experimental satellites on Thursday.The satellites are designed to test Starlink, a concept to bathe all of Earth in high-speed broadband internet using a fleet of 12,000...
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'It's like winning the cosmic lottery': An amateur astronomer caught the...
An exploding star has been photographed for the first time ever.The chances of this actually happening are virtually nil.What's more — the pictures were taken by an amateur astronomer who was testing...
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SpaceX's biggest rival has a 'genius' plan to cut its rocket launch costs...
SpaceX turned heads around the world on February 6 with the first-ever launch of Falcon Heavy.The 230-foot-tall rocket's three boosters helped push Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space, peeled off...
View ArticleWhat would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter
A special thanks to Kunio Sayanagi at Hampton University, for his help with this video.The best way to explore a new world is to land on it. That's why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon, Venus,...
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NASA just fired an old space shuttle engine at '113% thrust' — and plans to...
NASA is building the most powerful rocket in history, called Space Launch System (SLS).The new rocket will use retrofitted space shuttle engines to send people to the moon, Mars, and beyond.NASA...
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NASA's new planetary protection officer says she doesn't want 'another red...
NASA has a new planetary protection officer: astrobiologist Lisa Pratt.She's tasked with protecting the Earth from alien invaders, and protecting the solar system from Earth's trash.Protecting the...
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