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An Italian astronaut snapped an incredible interstellar selfie while floating...
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano snapped an incredible selfie while floating in space. Parmitano is currently serving as the third European and first Italian in command of the International Space...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX is hiring and holding a career day this week — here's...
Elon Musk tweeted a worldwide invitation to people interested in working at SpaceX to attend a career day at the company's development facility in Boca Chica, Texas.SpaceX is in search of engineers,...
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Astronaut Christina Koch just broke the world record for the longest time...
Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth after an 11-month mission, breaking the world record for the most time spent by a woman in space.Koch landed in Kazakhstan with two other crew members from...
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A new spacecraft is launching toward the sun on Sunday. It will take the...
NASA is launching a European spacecraft called the Solar Orbiter toward the sun on Sunday.The Solar Orbiter is expected to capture the first images of the sun's poles — and of the largest holes in its...
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Russia is stalking US satellites in orbit, a NATO general warns
Russian and Chinese activities in space highlight the dangers that NATO countries now face when operating up there, according to NATO's supreme allied commander transformation."Until now, space was...
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NASA and the European Space Agency are launching the Solar Orbiter spacecraft...
NASA and the European Space Agency are expected to launch a new spacecraft toward the sun on Sunday, and you can watch it live.The Solar Orbiter will fly around the sun's poles and photograph them, and...
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NASA says SpaceX is just a 'load' of paperwork away from launching its first...
SpaceX is just a 'load' of paperwork away from launching its first astronauts into space, NASA administrators say.NASA's target date to launch astronauts in the company's Crew Dragon spaceship is May...
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Scientists discovered repeated 'mysterious signals' in outer space, and they...
Scientists have discovered regularly recurring "mysterious signals" from an unidentified source 500 million light-years away, the MIT Technology Review reported on Monday.The signal is called a "fast...
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Facebook's ambitious plan to build a constellation of satellites isn't dead —...
Facebook is still actively working on plans to launch satellites, despite delays.Paperwork filed with the FCC show the company has quietly been updating its efforts in anticipation of a future...
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Mark Zuckerberg still dreams of space, but there's no escape from Earthly...
Welcome to this week's edition of Trending, the newsletter where we highlight BI Prime's biggest tech stories. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast bureau chief and global tech editor.If...
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch said she 'felt like a baby' — and was craving...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who completed the longest space mission ever by a woman, said she "felt like a baby" after returning to Earth.The American astronaut spent 328 days on the International...
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To rocket Americans back to the moon in 2024, NASA says it needs an...
NASA requested $35 billion to support the Artemis mission, a project that aims to send astronauts to the moon and begin building a Lunar outpost by 2024.The White House's 2021 budget proposal included...
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NASA's iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph turns 30 on Friday. It shows Earth...
Friday marks the 30th anniversary of the iconic "Pale Blue Dot" photograph, which shows Earth as a speck from a vantage point 3.7 billion miles away from our sun.The image was taken by NASA's Voyager 1...
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LAST TOWN BEFORE MARS: SpaceX's crucial plan to buy a village in South Texas...
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, is building a private spaceport at the southern tip of Texas, but the location features a small neighborhood of retiree-age homeowners called Boca Chica Village.SpaceX...
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SpaceX plans to send a small number of tourists into space
SpaceX is collaborating with Space Adventures to send a small number of private citizens into space as early as 2021, Engadget reported on Tuesday.The company intends to take up to four tourists into...
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Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars we see, has been fading for months. It...
Betelgeuse is a well-known and easily visible star in the Orion constellation.It's been fading in brightness, and astronomers aren't sure why.The star could be about to explode, or its surface could be...
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A simple animation by a planetary scientist reveals what would happen without...
Leap day is on February 29. A simple animation by a planetary scientist shows how that solves a problem with the way we track time. The animation reveals how leap years realign our calendars with the...
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Our first stop on our trip to the Sun will be the corona —the outermost layer of the sun. It blazes at 1 million degrees Celsius, nearly 900 times as hot as lava! We'll also pass through the...
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Pluto was discovered 90 years ago this week. Controversy about its identity...
This week marked the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto.It's considered a dwarf planet — a designation that continues to spur vigorous debate.Pluto also continues to fascinate astronomers...
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NASA's InSight lander is revealing Mars to be far more shaky than we thought....
NASA'sInSight lander has detected about 450 quakes on Mars.An initial set of InSight research analyzed 174 of those quakes and about 10,000 "dust devil" whirlwinds that bend the ground.The findings...
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