How To Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower
The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak on the morning of Monday, Aug. 12, between 3 and 5 a.m. The shower happens as Earth passes through a stream of debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle....
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Mesmerizing Pictures From The Perseid Meteor Shower
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 11 and 12 as Earth passed through a stream of debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. During the Perseids, as many as 100 meteors each hour enter Earth's...
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A New Theory Suggests That The Universe May Not Be Expanding After All
Every now and again, cosmologists decide that the universe needs a rethink.For example, for the past century, they have likened it to an inflating balloon, decorated with galaxies. Now one theoretical...
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Scientists Have Finally Solved A 40-Year-Old Galactic Mystery
For decades, scientists were at a loss to explain the source of the so-called Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas discovered in the early 1970s that extends nearly halfway around the Milky Way.But...
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The Food On Mars Will Be Delicious
On Tuesday, six scientists emerged from an abandoned quarry on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano after spending four months simulating what it is like to live on Mars.The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and...
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These Men And Women Are Willing To Die On Mars
Four months after the call for applicants went out, 100,000 people from around the world (including yours truly) have applied for a one-way trip to Mars.The Mars One group wants to put four humans on...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: Don't Be Fooled, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic...
When it comes to space travel, Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to go to "the moon, Mars, or beyond." The host of StarTalk Radio explains below why a trip on Richard Branson's spaceship for tourists, Virgin...
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This Young Blonde Signed Up For A One-Way Trip To Mars Because Earth Is...
Kitty Kane, 23, is among the 100,000 men and women who have volunteered to die on Mars.Kane answered an open call for astronauts put out in April by Mars One, a company that says it will plant the...
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NASA's $600 Million Planet-Hunting Telescope Is Crippled Beyond Repair
The $600 million Kepler space telescope ended its primary exoplanet hunting mission after two of four wheels that move and point the telescope were damaged beyond repair.One of the wheels stopped...
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A Star Just Exploded And Is Visible In The Night Sky
A new star explosion, called a nova, has flared up in the night sky, and it is fairly easy to spot with binoculars — and potentially even the naked eye — by stargazers with clear weather and dark...
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Watch The Sun Release A Huge Burst Of Gas And Dust As A Comet Hits It
NASA scientists at the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory are constantly watching our sun, keeping an eye out for changes in its activity levels and coronal mass ejections that spew stellar particles...
View ArticleStunning Images Of Last Night's Blue Moon
Yesterday's Full moon, known by many names like the Blue Moon, Full Sturgeon Moon, the Full Red Moon, the Green Corn Moon and the Grain Moon, got a lot of attention on social media last...
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Mysterious 'Ball Lightning' Recreated In The Lab [GIFS]
Researchers at the U.S. Air Force Academy have created a ball-shaped flash of plasma that closely resembles the near-mythical "ball lightning" reported for millennia.It’s estimated that only one in a...
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This Is The First Picture Of Earth From The Moon — Taken 47 Years Ago
47 years ago on August 23 NASA's unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first images of the Earth from the Moon, seeing it in it's full glory. NASA says of the image:The photo was transmitted to Earth by...
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Neil Armstrong's Most Courageous Moments As A Pilot
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, died one year ago on Aug. 25, 2012, at the age of 82.The pioneering American is remembered as a humble hero; he's often described as a private man who was...
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10 Mind-Bending Photos From The Spitzer Telescope
Ten years ago, a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope from Cape Canaveral, Fla.As the fourth Great Observatory to enter into space, Spitzer has studied comets and asteroids, counted...
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Scientists Will Announce A 'Major Result' From A Star Study On Wednesday
Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope in Chile plan to announce a "major result" Wednesday (Aug. 28).The finding relates to research on medium-size stars, scientists said. The results will...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Doesn't Think Elon Musk's SpaceX Will Put People On Mars
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to put humans on Mars in the next 10 to 15 years. Renowned astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think a private enterprise, such as SpaceX,...
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This Photo From Space Shows Just How Massive The California Wildfire Near...
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano just posted a striking photo of the massive wildfires happening in California. It's just one of the many amazing looks the Italian astronaut posts to...
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This Rocket Plane Is Our Best Hope For Commercial Space Travel
Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, launched its second successful rocket-powered supersonic test flight on Thursday, Sept. 5.The company's WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) shuttle carrier...
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