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How long it might take North Korean missiles and nuclear warheads to reach...
President Donald Trump is meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore to discuss nuclear weapons.The stakes are high: US weapons experts believe North Korean missiles can strike anywhere in...
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A 40-year-old mystery about rising temperatures on the moon has been solved —...
When NASA's Apollo astronauts landed on the moon, they drilled probes into the ground to monitor the moon's temperature.Apollo mission researchers later noticed that the probes recorded peculiar...
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Satellite images reveal what Russia's World Cup stadiums look like from space
Games for the 2018 World Cup will be played at 12 stadiums across Russia, with locations spread more than 1,500 miles apart from east to west and more than 1,000 miles from north to south.Deimos...
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A dust storm large enough to cover North America and Russia is engulfing Mars...
A global dust storm has engulfed Mars, and NASA says it's "one of the most intense ever observed."The dust storm's total area is big enough to cover North American and Russia.From the perspective of...
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Stephen Hawking's voice has been blasted into a black hole from a space...
Stephen Hawking's ashes have been laid to rest at Westminster Abbey on Friday.A speech by the late physicist was set to a piece of music, which was beamed into space after the service.The composition...
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The incredible career of NASA's Peggy Whitson, who applied to become an...
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the 58-year-old from Iowa farm country who spent a record-breaking 665 days in space, retired from the space agency on Friday."I have hit my radiation limit," Whitson...
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NASA astronauts must sculpt freakishly strong arms to work in space — here's...
NASA astronauts have to maintain killer arm muscles to move and work in space.They exercise for two hours per day on the International Space Station.You can test your own interplanetary strength with a...
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A boat architect modeled his 250-square-foot tiny home after a lunar lander...
Tiny homes aren't anything new. Tiny homes that look like spaceships might be, though. Take, for example, one such dwelling in Central Washington, modeled after a lunar lander — a spacecraft used by...
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield says the rockets from NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin...
Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, recently spoke to Business Insider about his new online course on space exploration.When asked the future space vehicles of NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin, Hadfield...
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Mars will come closer to Earth in the coming weeks than it has been in 15...
Mars will be at its closest point to our planet in 15 years throughout July, making for some prime nighttime viewing.That's because of a phenomenon called perihelic opposition, in which Earth's and...
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NASA's nuclear-powered Mars rover took an amazing selfie during an intense...
Scientists say a global dust storm on Mars is the thickest and darkest they've ever seen.NASA's Opportunity rover, which runs on solar power, went into safe mode because the sky is so dark.The...
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A startup raised $40 million to catapult rockets into space — an idea Jeff...
Spinlaunch has raised $40 million to develop a catapult to launch small and medium-sized payloads into orbit.The company wants to use kinetic energy, sourced from ground-based electricity, for its...
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Astronaut Mark Kelly says Trump's order to create a Space Force 'is a dumb idea'
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the military to create a sixth division called the Space Force.Mark Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut, took to Twitter to say this is "a dumb idea."The US Air Force...
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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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An astronomer's stunning photo of the Milky Way shows our galaxy through a...
Astronomer Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos took a photo of the Milky Way through a crystal ball.The image shows our galaxy projected through the orb of glass like a celestial marble.Muñoz-Mateos, who works at...
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Over a million space rocks could strike Earth with more energy than a nuclear...
NASA wants to find killer asteroids before they smack into the planet.There are over a million potentially city-killing asteroids lurking beyond the edges of our sensory equipment, and we've only...
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This veteran NASA astronaut has tried SpaceX and Boeing's new spaceships and...
After nearly a decade of effort, SpaceX and Boeing are preparing to launch the first NASA astronauts on commercial spaceships.Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon may fly their first...
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A big solar storm could wreak havoc on GPS and everything else on your phone
Solar storms, which involve magnetized particles that shoot out of the sun, can shake up the balance of Earth's magnetic field.If a solar storm were strong enough, it could de-orbit satellites and...
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Jeanette Epps would have been the first black astronaut to live on the Space...
Jeanette Epps was about to become the first African American to live at the International Space Station.But NASA announced in January it was replacing her with another astronaut. Epps said this week...
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A glowing red 'Blood Moon' in July will be the longest lunar eclipse in a...
A blood moon — and the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century — will occur on the night of July 27 and the morning of July 28.The total eclipse is set to last for 1 hour and 43 minutes.The eclipse...
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