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The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning...
The moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, but the speed of its retreat has varied over time.A new animation by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows...
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16 recently discovered exoplanets could offer our best chance of finding...
NASA launched the Kepler space telescope into orbit in 2009, which helped astronomers identify over 4,000 exoplanets — worlds outside our solar system.Based on that data, scientists estimate there...
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Ex-SpaceX and Blue Origin employees just snagged $140 million in funding to...
Relativity Space is a startup that plans to use giant 3D-printers, called Stargates, to quickly print entire rockets with 99% fewer parts. The company was founded in December 2015 by two engineers who...
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Before we put people on Mars, we should infect the planet with Earthly...
NASA and private companies like SpaceX want to send people to Mars.A group of scientists suggest in a new paper that we should infect Mars with Earth's microbes before people land on the red...
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NASA's InSight lander on Mars has detected more than 20 quakes. Early data...
NASA's InSight lander detected its first Mars quake in April.Researchers were surprised to find that the quake was similar to quakes on the moon, which suggests Mars' crust is more dry and broken up...
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life,...
Water on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains organic compounds — the building blocks of amino acids that make up DNA and formed the foundations of life on Earth.Data from NASA'sCassini mission revealed...
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An adorable photo shows 9 astronauts and cosmonauts hanging out in the...
The International Space Station is unusually crowded this week because the station command is changing hands.On Tuesday, the nine people onboard crowded into a corner to snap a photo. The group won't...
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A SpaceX fan who visited Texas to see Elon Musk's Starship event spent the...
Elon Musk on Saturday shared SpaceX's updated plan for a towering launch system called Starship.Musk journeyed to the rocket company's launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, to deliver his remarks, and...
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Astronomers plan to film the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy...
The team of scientists that captured the first-ever photo of a black hole is turning to its next project: video.The Event Horizon Telescope team plans to produce hours of real-time video footage of the...
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A decorated environmental scientist beloved by Bill Gates slams Elon Musk as...
The billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both have companies dedicated to space travel — Blue Origin and SpaceX, respectively. Bill Gates, however, is spending his billions on solving some of the...
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6 space-themed novelty items we totally forgot about
Space-themed novelty items were popular through the latter half of the 20th century and into the early 2000s. Some have been discontinued, but many, like Tang, Moon Boots, and freeze-dried foods, are...
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A powerful experiment that cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein...
A gravitational-wave observatory in Japan is joining Earth's most powerful tool to detect ripples in spacetime.The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected...
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A giant elevator could connect Earth to space using current technology,...
A space elevator on Earth or the moon could make space travel and cargo transport easier, cheaper, and more sustainable.Companies in China and Japan hope to build such an elevator by 2045 and 2050,...
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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a...
In the sci-fi series "Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drives.The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792...
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20 new moons were just discovered orbiting Saturn, and you can help name them
Twenty new moons orbiting Saturn were discovered, bringing the planet's total up to 82 moons.Saturn now has more moons than any other planet in the solar system, including Jupiter, which has 79.Further...
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Astronauts just printed meat in space for the first time — and it could...
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station just printed meat in space for the first time.On September 25, the Israeli food-tech startup Aleph Farms loaded a spacecraft with vials of cow...
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A huge explosion sliced through our galaxy just 3.5 million years ago, as...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed the remnants of a huge explosion near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, which occurred just 3.5 million years ago.In galactic timescales,...
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect...
A NASA photo captured the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared light.The image shows the galactic center in unprecedented detail, but NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will...
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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a...
As Earth rotates on its axis, it orbits the sun, which orbits the center of the Milky Way, which itself is barreling through space.A simple animation by the former NASA scientist James O'Donoghue shows...
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11 of the biggest innovations shaping the future of spaceflight today
Private companies have started to take the lead in humankind's march into space.Companies like SpaceX, Boeing, and Virgin Galactic are shaping the future of spaceflight with exciting new...
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