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Why Elon Musk's space rockets are so much more promising than Jeff Bezos's...
2015 is shaping up to be an extremely exciting time for the future of commercial spaceflight, which will be built upon the backbone of revolutionary 21st Century rockets. Private American space...
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On November 12, 1995, Chris Hadfield went on his very first trip to space. Since that day, Hadfield has spent a total of 166 days in space, gone on two spacewalks, and become a two-time best-selling...
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What we think are geysers on Saturn’s moon might actually be giant walls of...
Curtains of vapor and ice miles high and hundreds of miles long might erupt from rifts on Saturn's icy, ocean-harboring moon Enceladus, researchers say.In fact, most of the seemingly discrete geysers...
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This seaweed farm looks amazing from space
In January 2014, the Operational Land Imager on NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captured a series of photos from around South Korea's Sisan Island. The shallow coastal waters were filled with arrays of...
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Here's the futuristic piece of tech that NASA is betting all its Mars chips on
When you're planning a trip, one of the most important things to remember is factoring in the transportation cost. And that's especially true for space travel.Traveling to Mars is going to be...
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We're going to detect alien life in the next decade, but not where you might...
Tiny, microbial life could be swarming deep below the surface of Mars or swimming in the underground oceans on Saturn's moon Enceladus, but that's not where we're likely to find the first life forms...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: Here's how long you could survive on every planet in our...
We know how long a human being could survive on a summer day on Mars without a spacesuit. (Answer: not long at all.) But what about the other planets in our solar system?Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks it...
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It took scientists 17 years to figure out that a microwave oven was causing...
For close to 17 years, astronomers at Parkes Observatory in Australia searched in vain to track down the source of interference with their observations. Until early this year, when they discovered that...
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8 charts reveal everything you need to know about the monster rocket NASA is...
Right now, NASA is constructing a monster rocket, called the Space Launch System, that will be the most powerful rocket ever built.This rocket is designed for NASA's future deep-space missions to an...
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The author of 'The Martian' doesn't think there's life on Mars
Warning: If you haven't read "The Martian" yet, there are spoilers ahead.Science fiction writers have a long history of fascination with Mars and its potential inhabitants.Terrifying Martians invade...
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Africa is jumping into the space race
Most do not associate Africa with the high-tech sphere of "space." However, in recent years, many countries on the continent have woken up to the potential and usefulness of space technology. In...
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Here's why we can't travel faster than the speed of light yet
Long before the Empire struck back, before the United Federation of Planets federated, Isaac Asimov created Foundation, the epic tale of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire. Asimov’s Empire...
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15 crazy space tech ideas that NASA is actually working on
NASA has funded 15 ambitious tech concepts in the hopes that one or more of them may have a huge impact on space science or exploration down the road.The new ideas funded by the NASA Innovative...
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The crazy true shape of the universe and what it means
It's a reasonable question to wonder what the shape of the Universe is. Is it a sphere? A torus? Is it open or closed, or flat? And what does that all mean anyway?The Universe. It's the only home we've...
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Scientists have a new plan to get rid of the trash clogging up space — zap it...
Amid the many proposals to solve the growing problem of space debris, an international team of scientists has put forward an idea for a space-based system that would first locate small space debris –...
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Watch an incredible blue-tinted sunset on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped some beautiful photos of a blue-tinged sunset on the Red Planet.Curiosity captured the images, which mission team members combined into a brief video of the...
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The Air Force is preparing to send its mysterious space drone on yet another...
On May 20, the Air Force is set to launch into its mysterious orbital space drone for another mission. Leaving from Cape Canaveral, the X-37B space plane will be launched into low orbit aboard an Atlas...
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This is our first image of Pluto and all 5 of its moons in one shot
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has snapped its first-ever family portrait of the Pluto system, capturing the dwarf planet and all five of its known moons.New Horizons, which is speeding toward a...
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Scientists just recreated the universe 1 second after the Big Bang
One of the all-time great mysteries in physics is why our universe contains more matter than antimatter, which is the equivalent of matter but with the opposite charge. To tackle this question, our...
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Bill Nye wants to send this giant solar sail out into the cosmos
Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") wants you to be a part – and get a part – of a "revolutionary solar sailing spacecraft" mission.As leader of The Planetary Society, a non-profit dedicated to the...
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