What If We Detonated A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon?
The U.S. Air Force considered trying to detonate a nuclear device on the moon during the late 1950s. A physicist who worked on the project said a single explosion would have been "microscopic," with...
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How To Watch This Weekend's Mysterious Meteor Shower
This weekend is the last major meteor shower of the year — the Geminids meteor shower — and experts suspect it will be quite a show. "The Geminids are usually one of the two best meteor showers of the...
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Here's Who Will Get See This Weekend's Spectacular Meteor Shower
In the nighttime hours of Dec. 13, the streaking glow of falling stars will ignite across darkened skies, giving stargazers a glimpse of one of the most active meteor showers of the year: the Geminid...
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What Happens When You Enter A Black Hole?
BI Answers: What Happens When You Enter A Black Hole?In Christopher Nolan's latest film, "Interstellar," actor Matthew McConaughey dives into a black hole. Although Nolan and the special effects team,...
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The Mystery Of Earth's Water Remains — It Doesn't Seem To Have Come From Comets
In the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian epic that recounts the creation of the world, the heavens and the Earth emerge from a primordial abyss of brackish water.According to the biblical book of Genesis,...
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These Two Gigantic Stars Are About To Merge Into One Supermassive Star
In the Giraffe constellation 13,000 light-years away, MY Camelopardalis is a massive binary system made up of two blue (that is, very hot and very bright) stars. They're so close, they're about to...
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I Asked Jeff Bezos About The Tough Questions — No Profits, The Book...
Jeff Bezos and I have a long history, dating from my days on Wall Street and the early years of Amazon.com. Today, he's an investor in Business Insider, and I remain an Amazon shareholder. I tried not...
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Russia Is Thinking About Building Its Own Space Station
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state space agency Roscosmos is considering building its own space station, RIA news agency quoted its chief as saying on Monday, underlining how international tensions are...
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This GIF Shows What Astronauts See As They Re-Enter Earth's Atmosphere
Every time they return from space, astronauts have to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.And when they hit that atmosphere they're going fast.How fast? This fast:When they detach from the International Space...
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How To Predict Dangerous Solar Flares
A couple of months ago, the sun sported the largest sunspot we've seen in the last 24 years.This monstrous spot, visible to the naked eye (that is, without magnification, but with protective eyewear of...
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Why Is Space Black?
Since there are stars and galaxies in all directions, why is space black? Shouldn’t there be a star in every direction we look?Imagine you’re in space. Just the floating part, not the peeing into a...
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The Air Force Wants To Overhaul Its Space Program
It’s called “the vicious circle of space acquisition."Large satellite systems take a long time to develop. As the years stretch on, the temptation to change requirements and add new capabilities is too...
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I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions — No Profits, The Book Controversies,...
Jeff Bezos and I have a long history, dating from my days on Wall Street and the early years of Amazon.com. Today, he's an investor in Business Insider, and I remain an Amazon shareholder. I tried not...
View ArticleNASA Astronaut Reveals His Favorite Part Of The Job
This short film gives an inside look at how NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures breathtaking images of Earth's most famous phenomena - aurora, star trails, city lights, and more - from the inside the...
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Curiosity Rover Witnessed Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars — A Tantalizing...
The Mars Curiosity rover has detected a mysterious spike in the organic molecule methane — one that could be a sign of life.That's according to a team of NASA scientists at a press conference at this...
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SpaceX Is About To Land A Rocket On A Platform In The Ocean — A Feat That...
The most monumental part of this Friday's SpaceX launch will not be what goes up, but what comes down.In a game-changing move, SpaceX is going to try and land a used rocket atop a floating platform in...
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Voyager 1 Is Being Pummeled By Giant 'Tsunami Waves' From Space
Voyager 1 still continues to experience the bumpy effects of the "tsunami wave" it encountered in space this February.This is the third shock wave it has encountered since entering interstellar space...
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NASA Mars Rover Has Found Organic Molecules In Martian Soil For The First Time
Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity tweeted some exciting news:Certified organics! I detected organics for the 1st time on the surface of Mars #AGU14http://t.co/TsMs5LEW8bpic.twitter.com/AVk5Wxp5G0 —...
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A Crazy British Plan To Send A Rocket To Drill On The Moon Just Passed A...
In about 10 years, UK space company Lunar Missions Ltd plans to send a rocket into Earth's orbit and land a spacecraft on the moon. To do so, it's raising money on Kickstarter— and just passed its...
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Our Holiday Lights Are So Bright They Can Be Seen From Space
With a new look at daily data from the Suomi NPP satellite, a NASA scientist and colleagues have identified how patterns in nighttime light intensity change during major holiday seasons. According to...
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