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8 books Neil deGrasse Tyson says every intelligent person should read
Want to know why we use fossil fuels to power our buildings and cars? How the US came to be the "leader of the free world"? How we transitioned from floating single-celled organisms to walking, talking...
View ArticleNew Mexico spent $218 million on a launch port for Virgin and SpaceX rockets...
Spaceport America, a 28-square-mile complex in the southern New Mexico desert, was supposed to be rocketing tourists into space. But after the crash in October of Virgin Galactic's spaceship during a...
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This is what war looks like from space
There's an oft-used idiom that you can't see political borders from space, but we've known for a while it's no longer true. Between higher resolution cameras and the increase in human activity, there...
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Here's how architects think our homes in outer space will look like
One day, we will leave this planet and find a new home on another space rock. And when we make the move, we’ll need new dwellings to fit the décor of our galactic habitat—and protect us from radiation...
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SpaceX is about to test out their latest capsule to send humans into space
A crucial safety test looms for the crew-carrying version of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which NASA hopes will be ready to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station by 2017.In the next...
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Hubble snapped these mind-blowing pictures of Jupiter's extremely rare triple...
When moons march across the face of Jupiter, it looks pretty amazing. So, when word got out that the three largest moons of Jupiter were marching all at once in a rare triplet-transit event on Jan. 23,...
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Pluto-bound probe snaps its first images of the dwarf planet
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has snapped new images of Pluto — the first taken by the probe during its six-month approach to the dwarf planet.New Horizons captured the new photos — which show Pluto...
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SpaceX will attempt a potentially historic rocket launch and landing this...
This Sunday, Feb. 8, SpaceX will make a second attempt at a historic rocket landing on a floating platform in the ocean.A 22-story-tall Falcon 9 rocket will lift off out of Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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Here's the crazy explosion that happened last time SpaceX tried to land a...
SpaceX launched and landed a rocket in January, but the event did not go as well as hoped.While the rocket successfully guided itself into position on the drone, it ran out of hydraulic fluid and seems...
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Here's what aliens living on Jupiter's beautiful moon Europa might look like
The giant planet Jupiter is one of the last places humans would ever look for life beyond Earth, but the planet's enigmatic moon Europa is a different story entirely.For 20 years, astrobiologists have...
View ArticleWhy a NASA mission to Jupiter’s famous icy moon is now a priority
The White House's 2016 budget for NASA specifically mentions a mission to Europa, a longtime dream of astronomers. What’s so special about the icy Jovian moon?This video originally appeared on Slate...
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SpaceX postponed 2nd try for a historic rocket landing for Tuesday
SpaceX on Sunday was set to make a second attempt at a historic rocket landing on a floating platform in the ocean, but the launch was officially scrubbed a little after 6 p.m. ET.The launch was...
View ArticleHow SpaceX is hoping to land their groundbreaking reusable rocket today
SEE ALSO: SpaceX Is Now Worth More Than Dropbox, Snapchat, Or AirbnbNOW READ: Elon Musk Wants To Bring The Internet To MarsJoin the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Scientists Discovered What...
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This astronaut has the best official portrait we've ever seen
Astronaut Leland Melvin won the internet this week – and increased NASA’s “Awwww!” factor — when this photo surfaced of him and his two dogs, Jake and Scout. Melvin admitted on Twitter that he snuck...
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SCIENTIST: Why I say there’s no such thing as a stupid question
I am an astrophysicist. I run into a lot of people who are extremely curious about space, how it works, or what it is that I study in particular. Many of these questions begin with an apology: "Not to...
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Neil Armstrong’s bag of artifacts from Apollo 11 lunar mission discovered in...
More than 40 years after the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon, a cloth bag filled with small items brought back by Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on Earth’s natural satellite, has come...
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Here's what will happen to Earth when our galaxy collides with the Andromeda...
Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above — eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive, but when this...
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Scientists announce the strongest evidence yet that dark matter is lurking in...
Astronomers understand very little about dark matter, especially the dark matter that may exist in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. But now, a team of international scientists has helped solve an...
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These 2 dead stars will collide and create a supernova
Two stars are on a collision course and the resulting crash will trigger one of the most powerful forces in nature: a supernova.A team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory spotted the...
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SpaceX aborted its second shot at a potentially historic rocket landing
SpaceX aborted its Falcon9 rocket launch on Tuesday at 5:55 p.m. due to strong upper-level winds. This was the company's second attempt after two days of delays.SpaceX is scheduled to attempt another...
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