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Amazing image captures a cluster of baby stars
What you’re looking at is the Ara OB1 association, approximately 4,000 lightyears away from us, and she sure is easy on the eyes.A stellar association is a “large grouping of loosely bound stars that...
View ArticleThis space rocket will ‘take off’ from Times Square every night in March
Created by artist Marco Brambilla, Apollo XVIII presents the countdown to an imagined lift-off of a Saturn V rocket across Times Square’s spectacular screens at midnight. The fictional mission combines...
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Chinese rover finds the moon’s geology is way more complex than we realized
The moon's past was livelier and more complex than scientists had thought, new results from China's first lunar rover suggest.China's Yutu moon rover found evidence of at least nine distinct rock...
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60 tons of cosmic dust falls on us every day
The earth is a dirty place, and we aren't getting much help from space. Every day, dust from meteorites, comets, and other 4.6 billion-year-old pieces of our solar system fall into the earth's...
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Our solar system is home to a surprising number of places with liquid water...
Most astrobiologists will agree that one of the key ingredients for life is liquid water. That's why, whenever planetary scientists discover evidence of liquid water on other celestial bodies in space,...
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Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are all interested in buying a satellite...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Monday said it could clinch a deal this year to build a high-throughput communications satellite for top technology companies such as Google Inc, Amazon.com Inc,...
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A very rare supermoon eclipse of the sun is happening this week that won't...
This Friday, March 20, marks this year's first and only total eclipse of the sun, when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun.Not only that, this is an extremely rare type of solar eclipse...
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Physicists are searching for ‘gravity particles’ that could help unite all of...
It may be possible to draw energy from a vacuum using gravity, a theoretical physicist says.If researchers succeed in showing that this can happen, it could prove the long-postulated existence of the...
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The company planning one-way trips to Mars will 'inevitably fall on its face'
Mars One, the private company with a fantastical plan to set up a permanent colony on Mars by 2025 on a $6 billion budget, hasn't exactly been transparent about the selection process for its would-be...
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Senator John McCain is mad the Air Force is 'doing very little' to end its...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Air Force's "troubling lack of urgency" in ending dependence on Russian rocket engines for space launches, saying there was...
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On the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk, astronaut remembers how the...
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 how hard it is for astronauts to take those beautiful pictures from space
When South by Southwest teased a panel about space photography this Friday, we had to attend. During said event, NASA announced a new partnership with the Houston Cinema Arts Society to launch...
View ArticleHow a space agency landed on a comet speeding along at 35,000 mph
On November 12, 2014, the European Space Agency successfully landed on a comet speeding at 35,000 mph. The Philae lander was dropped from the Rosetta satellite, which had to travel 4 billion miles over...
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On Friday Europe will get to see a spectacular solar eclipse — here's how to...
This Friday, March 20, is the first day of spring and also the celestial event of the year: a total eclipse of the sun, which happens when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking it...
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Friday's solar eclipse is like nothing we'll see for another 19 years
This Friday, a rare total solar eclipse will be visible across parts of Greenland, Europe, and North Africa. Not only is this the only total solar eclipse in 2015, but it's the last of its kind for...
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Iconic Hubble images are actually black-and-white
Any iconic image of the universe you can think of was probably taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Take the Eagle Nebula, for example, which is shown below. What you might not realize is that this...
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There’s water all around us in the universe, but that doesn’t necessarily...
Scientists are finding liquid water, the cornerstone for life as we know it, in surprising nooks and crannies of the solar system.Following Wednesday’s news that there seem to be hydrothermal...
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Here's who will be able to see the solar eclipse live on Friday
This Friday, March 20, marks the first and only total eclipse of the sun in 2015.During the eclipse, the moon passes directly between the sun and planet Earth.Remember that no one should look directly...
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Mars One CEO 'still fully committed' despite tidal waves of criticism
Mars One, the company planning to send people on a one-way trip to Mars, has been battered with criticism in the past couple months.The most recent example is a blistering story written by Elmo Keep...
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A physicist studied the blinking of a star and found something never before...
What struck John Learned about the blinking of KIC 5520878, a bluish-white star 16,000 light-years away, was how artificial it seemed.Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa,...
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