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A Star That Exploded 12 Million Years Ago Just Appeared In Our Telescopes
Last night, telescopes at the University of London Observatory (UCL) spotted an exploding star in a galaxy that is 12 million light years away.That sounds like a long distance from Earth, but it's...
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Why This Mars Rover Has Lasted 3,560 Days Longer Than Expected
The mission wasn't supposed to last more than 90 days. But 10 years later, NASA's Opportunity rover is still in working condition and continues to send back data from Mars.The prolonged health of the...
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Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Don't Exist
If anyone knows anything about black holes, it's physicist Stephen Hawking. Heck, one of the theoretical components of a black hole is named "Hawking radiation" after theories that the award-winning...
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NASA Rocket Launch Captured In Awe-Inspiring Photo
Space photographer Mike Killian has captured an absolutely stunning astrophoto of this week's Atlas V blastoff that innovatively combines astronomy and rocketry — its the streak shot featured above....
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Read The Chilling Transcript From The Challenger Disaster, Which Killed 7...
Twenty-eight years ago today, on Jan. 28, 1986, the launch of the space shuttle Challenger ended in disaster. The shuttle broke apart in a fiery explosion just 73 seconds after liftoff. All seven crew...
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The Opportunity Rover Looks Nearly Unrecognizable After 10 Years On Mars
The Opportunity rover recently celebrated 10 years on Mars, even though the mission was only planned for three months. Engineers thought the rover would conk out much sooner, in part because they...
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This Is What A Solar Eclipse Looks Like From Space
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was uniquely poised Thursday morning to capture an eclipse as viewed from space when the moon passed between it and the sun.The partial eclipse was not entirely...
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Two Hilarious GIFs From The 1985 Space-Themed Super Bowl
Today, I learned from my co-worker Rob Wile about the crazy and cultish history of the Super Bowl Half Time show. One of those halftime shows, from the 1985 Super Bowl, also happened to be...
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New Theory Suggests That Alien Life Was Born Just After The Big Bang
Earthlings may be extreme latecomers to a universe full of life, with alien microbes possibly teeming on exoplanets beginning just 15 million years after the Big Bang, new research...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Was Not Impressed By Felix Baumgartner's 'Edge Of Space'...
Felix Baumgartner's 2012 jump from the edge of space has made headlines again after GoPro released new high-definition footage of the freefall.While impressive to most, many media reports have...
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NASA Discovers A Strange New Planet That Wobbles
Astronomers have discovered an alien planet that wobbles at such a dizzying rate that its seasons must fluctuate wildly.Throughout all of the planet's fast-changing seasons, however, no forecast would...
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Scientist: We Will Find Intelligent Aliens By 2040
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The first detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life will likely come within the next quarter-century, a prominent alien hunter predicts.By 2040 or so, astronomers will have...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Rates The 'Matrix' Movies — And More!
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> When he's not busy with StarTalk Radio, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, and his upcoming show...
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Scientists Are Tracking Whales From Space
New high-resolution satellite imagery now allows researchers to spot and count whales from space, greatly expediting population analyses used in conservation efforts, according to a new...
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NASA Has Determined Where The Mysterious Jelly-Doughnut Rock On Mars Came From
Scientists have confirmed that a strange-looking Mars rock, called "Pinnacle Island," that suddenly and inexplicably popped up in a photograph taken by the Opportunity rover came from a larger piece of...
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New Study Finds That Stars Boil Before Blowing Up
Supernovas are some of the most energetic and powerful events in the observable Universe. Briefly outshining entire galaxies, they are the final, dying outbursts of stars several times more massive...
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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Car-Size Meteorite Crashes Into Moon And Creates The...
On Sept. 11, 2013, Spanish telescopes recorded a massive meteorite crashing into the moon, creating the longest and brightest lunar flash ever seen, researchers reported Sunday in the journal Monthly...
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Astronauts On The Space Station Are About To Create The Coldest Spot In The...
The icy chill of empty space will soon be trumped by the temperatures aboard the International Space Station. Using NASA's Cold Atom Lab, scientists plan to reach temperatures only a few degrees above...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: I Loved 'Gravity' But Here's What The Movie Got Wrong
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> When "Gravity" hit theaters last fall, Neil deGrasse Tyson paid special attention to the Oscar-nominated film. The blockbuster,...
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These Stunning Images Prove That Life On The Space Station Is Just As...
Space-station based "Gravity" took home seven Oscars last night, including the best visual effects.But in reality, life on the real-life space station is just as visually stunning as the movie, as NASA...
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