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More than 14,000 hunks of dangerous space junk are hurtling around Earth —...
Tens of thousands of objects have rocketed into space since the start of the Space Race.Most objects are hunks of space junk moving at speeds of roughly 17,500 mph.The US government maintains an online...
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These may be the last photos of the Chinese space station before it falls to...
The Chinese space stationTiangong-1 is in its final hours and will most likely fall to Earth early in the morning on April 1.Maximilian Teodorescu, a researcher from Romania, was able to capture images...
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A 'Worm Moon' is coming this weekend — here's what to expect
There are two Worm Moons this month. There are also two full moons in March.Coincidence? Nope. The Worm Moon is really just a full moon. Full moons go by different names depending on the month.Look up...
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NASA is sending a new solar-powered lander to Mars to check out what's been...
NASA is sending a mission to Mars this year. But don't get your space suit zipped up just yet: The trip is for a solar-powered lander, not people.The NASA inspection kit is named InSight, and it's a...
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SpaceX is expanding — here's where all the major facilities of Elon Musk's...
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with little more than a handful of staff, an empty office in Los Angeles, and a mariachi band.Today the rocket company employs more than 5,000 people, has received...
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Why it's so hard to tell where the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash
According to the latest predictions, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will most likely fall to Earth in a fiery blaze around 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.But it's impossible to predict...
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The Chinese space station hurtling towards Earth has crashed over the South...
The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 came crashing back into Earth's atmosphere at approximately 8:16 p.m. ET, over the southern Pacific ocean.Tiangong-1, which translates as "Heavenly Palace" in...
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SpaceX's biggest rival has a 'genius' plan to cut its rocket-launch costs by...
SpaceX turned heads around the world on February 6 with the first launch of Falcon Heavy.The 230-foot-tall rocket's three boosters helped push Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space, peeled off after...
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China's first space station was decimated in a fireball over the South...
At approximately 8:16 p.m. ET on Sunday, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1's orbit around the planet finally decayed enough that it got caught up in the thicker air surrounding our...
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SpaceX is sending another cargo-loaded rocket to space — and the mission...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space for the second time this week. It will carry supplies to NASA's International Space Station, located 250 miles above Earth.The cargo will allow NASA...
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The Hubble telescope spotted the furthest star ever seen — 9 billion light...
The universe is close to celebrating its 14 billionth birthday. Here's what it looked like when it turned 5 billion:We know because that's a photo of a what a star looked like nine billion years taken...
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Jeff Bezos survived a brush with death starting his rocket company Blue...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was scouting for a large Texas ranch to buy in March 2003.The billionaire wanted a huge parcel of land to test spacecraft for his then-nascent startup Blue Origin.He was...
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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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Scientists are solving the alien origins of Europium, a strange metal found...
Neutron stars that crash together in space forge valuable metals like silver, gold, and platinum.Some heavy periodic elements may be created almost exclusively by such cosmic crashes.Europium, one of...
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NASA's future spacesuits could revolutionize how astronauts explore the solar...
Space may be the final frontier, but it's also inaccessible (and deadly) to human beings without a good spacesuit.For 57 years, NASA and US companies have met the call to protect high-flying astronauts...
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A 2nd 'Big Bang' could end our universe in an instant — and it's all because...
Physicists found that our universe will likely end the way it began, with a second 'Big Bang.'This is because of an unstable Higgs Boson particle. If the particle's mass changes, it could upend the...
View ArticleAnimated map of Mars reveals where humans should build the first Martian cities
Elon Musk wants to send humans to Mars to establish the first Martian cities. But Mars is big. It's a planet, after all. So where should we put the first cities? The North or South poles? How about at...
View ArticleWhat will happen when Earth's north and south poles flip
Earth's magnetic field is what protects our planet from harmful space radiation. But our protective shield might soon go into a transformation that could threaten the lives on Earth. This video shows...
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You can now book an all-inclusive 12-day stay in a 'luxury space hotel' —...
For a cool $9.5 million you can take a 12-day journey to a luxury space hotel. Securing a place on the waitlist costs $80,000.Guests will hang out in zero gravity, soar over their hometown, take part...
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Elon Musk just unveiled a giant tool SpaceX will use to build the biggest and...
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, revealed a photo on instagram of a giant tool that will help build "Big Falcon Rocket" spaceships.The tool is a huge mold to create a carbon-fiber composite body for...
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