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Scientists just published the best map of our galaxy ever created — and it...
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft just released its latest batch of data.The new data pins down the positions and brightness of almost 1.7 billion stars.That makes this the richest and most...
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NASA's $1 billion mission to Jupiter may end this summer — here are the best...
All good things must come to a end, and Juno— NASA's $1-billion mission to study Jupiter like never before — is no exception.The probe launched from Earth in August 2011, reached Jupiter in July 2016,...
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SpaceX cargo launches may soon cost 50% more — but it's still an offer NASA...
Government auditors published a new report about NASA's commercial spaceflight program that focuses in part on SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk.The report says sending cargo to and from...
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NASA is about to launch a new solar-powered lander to Mars — here's what the...
NASA is about to launch a mission to Mars. 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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Billionaires, costume designers, and beer: I spent a day at the Space...
The 34th annual Space Symposium recently took place in Colorado.It was full of excitement and included a visit from Vice President Mike Pence and rockets being built by tech billionaires such as SpaceX...
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8 men and women once sealed themselves inside this enormous fake Mars colony...
A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2.Ed Bass, an oil tycoon,...
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Jeff Bezos says Amazon is not his 'most important work.' It's this secretive...
In a recent in-depth interview, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that Amazon and his other businesses aren't nearly as important as Blue Origin.Blue Origin builds, tests, and launches reusable rockets...
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15 facts about space that will blow your mind
Space exploration in real life is just as mind-blowing as it looks in the movies.The universe's size and scope are incomprehensible even to the most advanced scientists, but we're learning more and...
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NASA's $850-million mission to Mars is about to launch — here are 13...
NASA is about to launch InSight: a new, $850-million Mars lander that will probe the red planet's secrets like never before.InSight is slated to lift off on Saturday, which is one day after...
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Stephen Hawking's final research was just published — and it could help us...
Stephen Hawking's final paper was just published in the Journal of High Energy Physics.That paper predicts there are not infinite parallel universes in the multiverse, but instead a limited...
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NASA built and tested a 'truly astounding' nuclear reactor that may help...
NASA is working on a nuclear reactor to power (and later propel) deep-space exploration, such as human missions to the moon and Mars.Kilopower is a 1- to 10-kilowatt design that could theoretically...
View ArticleJeff Bezos: Blue Origin is 'the most important work that I'm doing'
The founder of Blue Origin and Amazon, Jeff Bezos, was recently interviewed by the CEO of Axel Springer, Mathias Döpfner. Bezos talked about why he considers Blue Origin to be above anything else he...
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Every spacesuit NASA astronauts have worn — and the new models that may...
May 4 is International Space Day: the world's small homage to and celebration of the final frontier.But that frontier is wildly inaccessible, and downright deadly, to any plucky human without a good...
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Scientists say the Ewoks in 'Star Wars' should have suffered a gruesome fate...
There is something gravely wrong with the ultimate fate of the Death Star, a moon-size weapon in the "Star Wars" movies, and physicists think you should know about it.The Death Star meets its final...
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4 bizarre but real weapons the US Space Corps will need
Fighting in space isn't as easy as just spraying bullets and hoping for the best. As a matter of fact, in the vacuum of space and an arena without friction, you're really just asking for the worst....
View ArticleThe Infinity Stones in 'Avengers: Infinity War,' explained by a Marvel...
Marvel science advisor Clifford Johnson and author of "The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe" explains where the infinity stones in Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War might have...
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NASA is launching a quake-hunting lander to Mars tomorrow — here's how to...
NASA's Mars InSight lander is set to take off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday.The InSight will take six months to reach Mars, where it will drill into the red planet and measure...
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A former NASA scientist says 'The Martian' movie 'is completely doable.' But...
A former NASA scientist says "The Martian" sci-fi book and movie "is completely doable."The movie depicts a temporary Mars outpost with pre-delivered supplies and habitats.But Elon Musk, the founder of...
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Living in outer space can cause these 9 weird changes to your body
NASA and companies like SpaceX and Boeing are looking to the moon and Mars as exciting targets for astronaut exploration, if not permanent colonization.However, we're only just beginning to understand...
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Jupiter will be closer to Earth tonight than it has been in years — and you...
Jupiter will be at its most visible on May 8.The planet will be in opposition to the sun, which means it'll be on the exact opposite side of Earth to the sun. Your best chance of getting a glimpse will...
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