Scientists finally figured out how to make an astronaut in space control a...
Dr. Andre Schiele and Astronaut Terry Virts shared the first ever space handshake. Virts is now the first human being to ever remotely control an object on Earth from outer space.Produced by Emma...
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Here’s why it’s so weird that we haven’t found aliens yet
In our observable universe there are about 100 billion galaxies, each with 100 to 1,000 billion stars — and based on what we've learned about planets, there are probably trillions and trillions of...
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Scientists have built a lab 62 feet under the sea, but they aren't using it...
If you want to see how astronauts will mine the Moon, anchor an asteroid, or drive rovers on Mars, then look no further than the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO.NEEMO is the only...
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Awesome video shows the giant rocket that America wants to shuttle astronauts...
A space revolution is coming.Leading the way is a fleet of next-generation rockets that are bigger and more powerful than most rockets before them, and capable of taking us where no human has ever gone...
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Elon Musk is one step closer to making his ambitious $10 billion satellite...
Elon Musk’s Space X is one step closer to bringing internet to the masses. The rocket company has asked permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin to test beaming high-speed...
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Scientists just got the first close-up look at some perplexing white spots in...
Last March, NASA's Dawn spacecraft made history when it became the first mission to ever orbit a dwarf planet.Before Dawn, the best images we had of the dwarf planet Ceres were taken by the Hubble...
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PornHub is trying to raise $3.4 million to shoot a sex tape in space
PornHub has launched an Indiegogo campaign to make a sex tape on the final frontier: space.The campaign, titled Sexploration, aims to raise $3.4 million to make a porno in space featuring Eva Lovia and...
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15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that's 1,000 light years...
At just 15 years old, Tom Wagg discovered what astronomers only began to find 20 years ago — a planet far from Earth, outside of our solar system.Wagg is one of the youngest to ever detect a planet,...
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Physicists once tried to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs
One of the biggest things holding us back from exploring the universe is that it takes years to traverse the huge distances between planets.It would take close to 165,000 years to reach our closest...
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Everything you need to know about PornHub's plans to pioneer the world's...
It's finally begun: The largest pornography site on the Internet, PornHub, has announced plans to film the first sex tape in space.On June 10, PornHub announced their latest project to the world by...
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There's one crucial number that could ultimately determine whether humans...
Our solar system harbors over a dozen classic and dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and tens of thousands of asteroids and comets. Yet, there is only one other place in our entire cosmic neighborhood...
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Moving to Mars could create a whole new breed of people
A growing number of scientists think human colonization of the solar system is inevitable.It's not clear when we'll see humans walking around on the moon or Mars, but it's coming, and it's going to...
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Scientists are super excited that our comet-landing space probe just phoned...
After about seven months of silence, a probe that landed on a comet in November has finally woken up and established communication with the spacecraft orbiting the comet.The European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Stunning images of Earth from GoPro attached to SpaceX rocket
Never has a slow descent from orbit seemed so majestic, thanks to footage from a GoPro camera attached to a SpaceX rocket as it slowly falls back to Earth.The Verge wrote that the GoPro was attached to...
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People are ecstatic about the momentous awakening of the first space probe to...
At 4:28 pm ET, June 13, scientists around the world let out a huge sigh of relief: The Philae lander — the first space probe to ever land on a comet — transmitted its first signal after sitting dormant...
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6 people finally released from 'Mars' after spending 8 months isolated from...
No one knows what it will be like to live on Mars. Perhaps the closest anyone has come is the HI-SEAS crew. For them, Mars is a remote mountaintop in Hawaii and their space habitat home is a 1200...
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Sex in space is going to be way different than it is on Earth
As far as we know, no one has ever had sex in space. NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have consistently and aggressively denied that any astronaut has had sex in space on the International...
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The oldest map of the universe is over 3,600 years old
The design on this disc might look like a six-year-old's scribbles, but in reality, it's one of the most sophisticated and influential artifacts of the Bronze Age.And it might never have been...
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This startup wants to launch 60 satellites to take real-time photos of Earth
A new Redmond-based startup wants to launch the largest satellite-imaging constellation ever deployed to help take pictures and videos of the Earth.BlackSky Global today announced plans to send...
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This 20-year-old website hosts just one image a day — and has millions of fans
Twenty years ago, two astrophysicists — Jerry Bonnell and Robert Nemiroff — created Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). The website is simple and harkens back to the days of the early web: Every post...
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