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Scientists Have Mapped The Cosmos For The First Time
On the largest scales, networks of gaseous filaments span hundreds of millions of light-years, connecting massive galaxy clusters. But this gas is so rarified, it’s impossible to see directly.For...
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The Terrifying Story Of The First Person To Walk In Space — And How He Almost...
Before the movie "Gravity," before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, even before Edward Higgins White became the first American to take a walk in orbit — there was Alexei Leonov.Nearly 50 years ago,...
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Here's What We Know About The Secret Air Force Space Plane That Just Returned...
In 2012, the Air Force sent an unmanned robot plane into space. It returned on October 17, completing its third voyage into space, one that began way back in the simpler days of 2012.The X-37B (not to...
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Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him...
Richard Branson, one of the most exuberant and successful entrepreneurs of the last 50 years, stopped by our offices recently. As the conversation below suggests, one of his greatest strengths may be...
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Watch A Mountain-Sized Comet Zip By Mars During A Once-In-A-Million-Years...
Mountain-sized comet Siding Spring has spent its entire life in the outer reaches of our solar system, but on Sunday Oct. 19 it will enter the inner solar system for the first time, heading toward the...
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NASA Probe Just Beamed Back The First Pictures Of Icy Craters On The Closest...
The first-ever photos of water ice near Mercury's north pole have come down to Earth, and they have quite a story to tell.The images, taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft (short for MErcury Surface,...
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10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Black Holes
Black holes are the only objects in the universe that can trap light by sheer gravitational force.They're thought to be what anchors galaxies — some of the largest objects in the universe.And what...
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There's A Planet Around A Distant Star That Looks Just Like Uranus
Exoplanets are generally compared to Earth if they are rocky, or to Jupiter if they are gaseous. Now, for the first time, a newly-discovered exoplanet appears to be both gaseous and icy, reminiscent of...
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NASA Thinks Long-Term Space Travelers Should Hibernate
Manned missions to deep space present numerous challenges. In addition to the sheer amount of food, water and air necessary to keep a crew alive for months (or years) at a time, there's also the...
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How To Watch This Week's Exceptionally Stunning Orionid Meteor Shower
The night skies for this year's Orionid Meteor Shower are expected to be especially dark this year, providing ideal viewing conditions. But if you're trying to learn the best time to watch you might be...
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The US Won't See Another Solar Eclipse Like This Week's Until 2023
Thursday's partial solar eclipse will begin at 3:38 pm EDT (12:38 pm PDT) and last through 7:52 pm EDT (4:52 pm PDT).The most spectacular portion of the partial eclipse, when the moon blocks out the...
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How To Take Stunning Photos Of This Week's Partial Eclipse
Get those solar viewers out… the final eclipse of 2014 occurs this Thursday on October 23rd, and most of North America has a front row seat.Though this solar eclipse will be an exclusively partial one...
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How To Watch This Week's Incredible Solar Eclipse
A partial solar eclipse, like the one happening this Thursday, will not be visible from across the entire US again until the year 2023. Since the next one is nearly a decade away, you'll want to get...
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This Comet Stinks
The European Space Agency's star spacecraft, Rosetta, is honing in on its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. And the closer it gets, the more scientists are learning.The latest report is the...
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We Are Told Nothing Escapes A Black Hole — But Scientists Caught This Lucky...
The supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy had a chance for a big meal but instead was left hungry.A star passed by the black hole close enough that some of its mass fell into the black hole's...
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Incredible Image Shows Mars With The Comet That Zipped By It Last Weekend
The famed Hubble Space Telscope has captured a jaw-dropping view of a comet making an incredibly close flyby of Mars.The space telescope snapped the amazing image when Comet Siding Spring (also called...
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China Could Be The Next Country To Reach The Moon
China launched an experimental spacecraft on Friday to fly around the moon and back to Earth in preparation for the country's first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface.The eight-day program is a...
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This Is The Very First Photo Of Earth From Space
These days we see photos of our planet taken from space literally every day. Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, weather and Earth-observing satellites in various orbits, even...
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Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet — Here's The Incredibly Tricky...
The moment we've all been waiting for is less than one month away. On November 12, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to deploy the Philae lander in the first attempt in human...
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A Rocket Launch Was Delayed Monday Because Of A Boat — How Could A Boat...
On Monday, Oct. 27, NASA was scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a 5,050-pound cargo spaceship loaded with food and supplies for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.But a boat got in...
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