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NASA is testing an alien-hunting, upside-down underwater rover in Antarctica....
NASA began testing an alien-hunting underwater rover in Antarctica this week.The robot, called the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration (BRUIE), rolls along the bottom of ice sheets in polar oceans,...
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Astronauts on the space station see vibrant desert patterns, roiling storms,...
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 21 years this week.Astronauts have taken millions of pictures of their breathtaking views from space: everything from calm Caribbean...
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Physicists say they found new evidence for a mysterious fifth force of...
Physicists say they may have uncovered a new force of nature, called X17 — a reference to its unique mass.The physicists first spotted it when they studied a decaying beryllium isotope's unexpected...
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There is no permanent dark side of the moon, and this simple animation by a...
There is no dark side of the moon— at least, not in the way you might think.A new animation by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows how sunlight falls across the moon as it orbits Earth, leaving...
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SpaceX's mega-constellation of Starlink satellites could result in a 'Wild...
Elon Musk and his company SpaceX are trying to "colonize" low-Earth orbit, CEO of Arianespace Stéphane Israël said in an interview with radio station France Inter.Initially, SpaceX planned to launch a...
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A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our understanding of...
A handful of recent discoveries indicate that Earth-like planets are common in the Milky Way.NASA'sKepler space telescope spurred new research into planets outside our solar system.There could be up to...
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A stunning animation by a planetary scientist shows how huge our solar system...
A video by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue explains how size, distance, and space make capturing our solar system in an accurate model so tricky.Most models of the solar system aren't to scale...
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The human species will likely destroy itself long before the sun kills...
Astronomers are certain that, billions of years in the future, the sun will incinerate Earth's oceans, effectively killing all life.The best solution to that imminent demise, according to a recent...
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Chinese astronomers discovered a black hole so big it shouldn't exist...
Chinese scientists have discovered a stellar black hole that's so large it shouldn't exist based on current theories of black-hole formation.LB-1 has a mass 70 times that of our sun, but scientists had...
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NASA's plans for the 2020s include landing humans on the Moon, detecting...
NASA has big plans for the next decade of space exploration.In the last year, the agency has announced plans to send humans back to the moon and search for life near Saturn.NASA's 10-year plan also...
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An Ikea designer lived in the Utah desert to learn more about designing for...
An Ikea designer spent several days living in the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert designed to simulate life on Mars.Ikea initially designed a line of furniture meant for...
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A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen...
NASA has released its first results from the Parker Solar Probe's close approaches to the sun.For the first time, the probe found evidence of a zone with no cosmic dust, as well as a source of the...
View ArticleWhy astrophysicists think there's a black hole in our solar system
In 2016, astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown noticed unusual gravitational activity in the outer solar system.They speculated this activity was from a ninth planet situated in the Kuiper...
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An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got...
Large collisions in space, like those between black holes or neutron stars, create ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves that were first predicted by Albert Einstein.The Laser Interferometer...
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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carried up 'mighty mice' and a new robot companion...
On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit.The spacecraft's re-supply mission carried up 5,700 pounds of gear to the ISS,...
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Virgin Galactic leaps after Morgan Stanley says the company's stock can jump...
Virgin Galactic stock surged as much as 21% on Monday after Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on the company with a buy-equivalent ratingThe firm said Virgin Galactic has the potential to "disrupt the...
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SpaceX's president said the company is exploring how to stop Starlink...
Elon Musk is planning to station a network of 42,000 Starlink satellites in orbit above Earth.The aim of the SpaceX project is, eventually, to provide the entire world with high-speed internet.Though...
View ArticleWatch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket go to space and land back on Earth
Jeff Bezos'Blue Origin continues to test its New Shepard reusable rocket.Like Elon Musk'sSpaceX, the rocket is reusable, and designed to land upright back on Earth after each flight.Visit Business...
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NASA has pinpointed an area where astronauts could land on Mars. Ice is so...
NASA scientists discovered a vast region of Mars where water ice sits just an inch below the surface.Because that area is not at the planet's poles or equator, it offers a promising place to land...
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just...
The Geminidsmeteor shower, a trail of asteroid dust that Earth passes through each December, peaks on Friday.NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe spotted the dust trail from space for the first...
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