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5 things we might learn about the human body from NASA’s historic twin mission
NASA has a lot of questions about what happens to people who live in space for long periods of time, and it's almost time to get some answers.When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russia's Mikhail...
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Soyuz spacecraft with US, Russian astronauts arrives at the International...
Baikonur (Kazakhstan) (AFP) - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked with the International Space Station after blasting off from Kazakhstan, NASA said.The Soyuz-TMA16M...
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Serious talk about contacting aliens is sparking a fiery debate in the...
One of humanity’s biggest questions is “Are we alone?” But is that still the right question?Astronomers have confirmed over 1,800 exoplanets in our galaxy and estimate that there are around 100 billion...
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Docking with the International Space Station is so insanely complicated it's...
Imagine being chased by a 925,000-pound machine traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.That's what's happens when astronauts dock with the International Space Station. Surprisingly though, the process can...
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A scientist who wants to contact aliens has a plan to beam the entire...
If you could send a message to a planet of intelligent aliens, what would you say?One scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, doesn't want to send just one message:...
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NASA is about to test a flying saucer that will help send the first...
From 2:30 to 3:30 pm ET, NASA will live broadcast the test of their Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, or LDSD, which resembles a flying saucer.Perhaps the most iconic symbol to emerge from the...
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What would happen if we actually found life on another planet
Since humans first observed other celestial bodies, we have wondered if we were alone in the universe.We’ve looked near, by sending a lander to the Moon and rovers to Mars, and we’re looking far,...
View Article14 extraordinary rocket test failures that paved the way for NASA's space...
NASA provided Business Insider with a montage of footage showing early unmanned rocket launch attempts made by the US military in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Each of these attempts resulted in...
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Super typhoon Maysak looks like a black hole from space
From his perch on the International Space Station, astronaut Terry Virts has been taking some beautiful photos of Earth and space and sharing them on social media.Today, he shared his views of Super...
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Exactly how long it would take to fall through the Earth to the other side of...
How long would it take to fall down a hole in the Earth and reach the other side of the planet? Even less time than previously thought, a scientist reveals.A scenario often presented to introductory...
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If parallel universes exist, here's how we could actually find the evidence
Imagine a physicist sitting in a chamber with a gun pointed directly at her head.Every few seconds, the spin direction of a random particle in the room is measured. If the particle is spinning one...
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Bill Nye and the Planetary Society say we could be sending humans to orbit...
Start your clocks. If the Planetary Society gets its wish, humans will be lifting off for the Red Planet eighteen years from now.That’s the conclusion of 70 experts in various fields relating to human...
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3 life lessons Neil deGrasse Tyson swears by
Astrophysicists probe the nature of our universe — a place too vast and grand for a single human mind to fully comprehend — and while that might make some feel small, Neil deGrasse Tyson has said time...
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There's an insane optical illusion that makes a full moon look squished —...
Who broke the moon?Believe it or not, that's a real photo of the full moon taken in 2012 by an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS). Here's another photo with the moon even more...
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The European Space Agency is using a 10,000-year-old fishing net design to...
Aerospace engineering usually focuses on finding the next best thing, developing complex new technologies to explore the final frontier.But sometimes it is just as innovative to recycle old ideas in...
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NASA's chief scientist says we'll find aliens by 2025 — here's the most...
During a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 7 NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan had some exciting news:"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think...
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A new study is calling into question one of the fundamental characteristics...
What happens to the information that goes into a black hole? Is it irretrievably lost? Does it gradually or suddenly leak out? Is it stored somehow?Physicists have puzzled for decades over what they...
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Big, beautiful photos of the giant flying saucer NASA is using to send humans...
The way we think of flying saucers is about to get a pretty serious makeover.Instead of transporting aliens across the universe (as portrayed in sci-fi films), rocket-powered flying saucers could send...
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How extreme aliens living on Jupiter's water-rich moon Europa might look
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...
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What we know so far about all the planets that may have water in our solar...
There's a surprisingly large number of celestial bodies in our solar system with liquid water. Still, they're very different from Earth — both in their size and their distance from the sun.Regardless,...
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