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This was the first spacesuit designed for astronauts on the moon and it looks...
A decade before Neil Armstrong ever took that first small step on the moon in 1969, NASA engineer Allyn B. Hazard was already thinking about manned missions to the moon in a very big way by designing...
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Do you have SpaceX reps on speed dial? Do lakes under Europa’s ice make your heart soar? Do you grumble over A.I. news invoking Skynet? Are you fascinated by the weird ways researchers are trying to...
View ArticleNASA scientists are stumped by this dwarf planet
After studying the giant asteroid Vesta in 2011 and 2012, NASA spacecraft Dawn has begun orbiting dwarf planet Ceres, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA researchers...
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NASA has a giant flying saucer that they're going to send humans to Mars in
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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Before NASA destroyed a $446 million spacecraft it took the most detailed...
Mercury is the smallest and fastest planet in the solar system, racing through space at 105,000 miles per hour, circling the sun every 88 days.But besides small size and swift speed, little was known...
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Here's how to download the code NASA uses in its rockets
Nerds and future billionaires rejoice: codes used on NASA's rockets are now free and legal to download.For the second year in a row, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released its...
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Here's why some scientists are convinced there's life on Mars
Mars is no Earth.Our planet is swaddled in a nice atmospheric blanket that protects us from dangerous blasts of radiation that permeate space. Mars barely has any atmosphere and its surface is...
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The Air Force is launching its secret space plane tomorrow for 'undisclosed...
Tomorrow (May 21), the Air Force is scheduled to send its secret space plane back into orbit for undisclosed purposes.The two X-37Bs — unmanned, shuttle-like craft — have already spent over three and a...
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The fight to build Earth's most powerful telescope on sacred ground
The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is arguably the most perfect spot in the world for a telescope.But some native Hawaiians who believe the mountain top is a sacred site and are worried about the...
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Math predicts that any aliens we find will be bear-sized
With thousands of planets outside Earth's solar system, there's a pretty good chance that some of them have the conditions needed for life.If alien life does exist, scientists aren't quite sure what it...
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The United Arab Emirates is joining the space race
The United Arab Emirates on Monday laid out a strategic framework for a newly created space agency that aims to integrate various arms of the Gulf federation's burgeoning space industry.The seven-state...
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Radical, science fiction-inspired reasons humans should colonize Mars
Neil deGrasse Tyson dreams of a world with warp drives. Cosmologist Max Tegmark's research was inspired by the sci-fi novel "Permutation City." Some space travel experts often quote the Star Trek...
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This photo shows a mysterious mechanism of the sun that has baffled...
From 93 million miles away, we earthlings are blissfully unaware of the sheer magnitude of powerful activity roiling on the the sun's surface. But thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...
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This inflammatory email has split the astronomy community in two
A remote piece of land 14,000 feet above sea level, Mauna Kea, is one of native Hawaiians' most sacred sites. It also happens to be one of the best places in the world to build a telescope capable of...
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Here's where those weird, dark lines on Jupiter's moon Europa come from
The reddish-brown lines that crisscross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa may be radiation-bombarded sea salt from an underground ocean, a new study suggests.Researchers probing the nature of...
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This giant telescope has split the astronomy community in two
The 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the chosen home for what will be the world's largest telescope. The proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has become the center of a raging debate among...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals how to see the most spectacular sunset happening...
For only two days a year each July, the sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan's city grid, generating the city's most spectacular sunset of the entire year.What it looks like is similar to what happens...
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Amateur satellite trackers found the US Air Force's secret space plane
It took little more than a pair of binoculars and some determination for a small group of hobbyists to discover the classified flight path of the X-37B U.S. space plane.The X-37B launched into space on...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says the moment he fell in love with astrophysics came...
Many years ago the world-famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was just a kid in the Bronx without even the hint of a dream to study the universe. But, as he tells Stephen Colbert, all of that...
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Memorizing numbers and passing a physical is enough to make you a finalist to...
Earlier this year, John Roche, one of the 100 finalists vying for a one-way ticket to Mars, spoke out against the company.He said the selection process was bogus, and no where near the kind of...
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