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The Curiosity Mars rover just took this one-of-a-kind selfie after a major...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has snapped a stunningly beautiful, one of a kind ‘belly selfie’ amidst the painstaking ‘Buckskin’ drill campaign at the Martian mountain base marking the third anniversary since...
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Pluto became a dwarf planet 9 years ago today — but that's 'bulls---,'...
On Aug. 24, 2006, nine years ago today, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet — a move that sparked protests and split the space-science community.Some in...
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This balloon could float passengers 20 miles into the sky for $75,000
Watch out, Virgin Galactic. There's a new space tourism company in town.A company called World View is planning to float passengers up to the edge of space — about 20 miles into the sky — via balloon...
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Astronauts have captured a troubling new trend in images of cities from space
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are snapping photos of Earth at night, and the images are telling a troubling story.Using the photos, a citizen science project called Cities at Night...
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Stephen Hawking came up with a way to escape a black hole, but it has a big snag
Whatever falls into a black hole never comes out again: It's trapped in a perfect prison, forever.But Stephen Hawking, who already completely changed how we understand black holes once, just came up...
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This MIT presentation reveals why the Mars One colony isn't feasible
Mars One, a private company that wants to send people on a one-way trip to Mars, has faced wave after wave of brutal criticism. Experts criticize its too-low budget, as-yet--nonexistent technology, and...
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Powerful phenomena are kicking stars out of our galaxy at speeds of over 1...
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the Universe could this happen?Stars are built with the lightest elements in the Universe, hydrogen and...
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Stephen Hawking just changed his mind on how to escape a black hole
Whatever falls into a black hole never comes out again: It's trapped in a perfect prison, forever.But Stephen Hawking, who already completely changed how we understand black holes once, just came up...
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An astrobiologist says this is how we can avoid the first interplanetary war...
It's a popular sci-fi plot: Earth sets up colonies on Mars; Mars colonies grow, developing their own technologies and culture; Mars colonies rebel against overbearing Earth government, demanding...
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BILL NYE: Mars is horribly inhospitable — here's why we should send humans...
Mars is a freezing, oxygen-less, barren wasteland.So why do we want to go there again?Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye appeared on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio show in March and...
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Here are the facts behind the fabulous Facebook hoax of a giant Mars
I almost fell for a Facebook hoax a few weeks ago when I saw this post: In the post were two photos showing Mars to be similar in size to the moon — though anyone with an eye for detail can tell the...
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The first supermoon of the year will come out this Saturday
There's an especially large and bright full moon coming out this Saturday night. So, if you want an exceptionally good look at some of the stunning features on the lunar surface, Saturday will be the...
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6 of the strangest light shows on Earth
Open a cold car door and get shocked, rub a balloon on someone's hair to make it stand up, or run for cover during a lightning storm — we've all had our run-ins with nature's strange electrical...
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We finally got a good look at the other side of Pluto and it's very weird
We're all familiar with Pluto's iconic heart-shaped feature and all the internet memes it inspired during the historic New Horizons flyby on July 14.Now, thanks to New Horizons scientist Don Jennings,...
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Scientists found something very odd in these rare images of the other side of...
We're all familiar with Pluto's iconic heart-shaped feature and all the internet memes it inspired during the historic New Horizons flyby on July 14.Now, thanks to New Horizons scientist Don Jennings,...
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California's wildfires are actually changing the appearance of the moon
Did you see the Moon last night? I walked outside at 10:30 p.m. and was stunned to see a dark, burnt-orange Full Moon as if September's eclipse had arrived a month early. Why?Heavy smoke from forest...
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Something profound happens when astronauts see Earth from space for the first...
When astronauts first saw Earth from afar in the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 — the US's second manned mission to the moon — they described a cognitive shift in awareness after seeing our planet "hanging...
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Scientists are about to steer a spacecraft into uncharted territory
NASA made history in July when it flew past Pluto with the New Horizons spacecraft, but it's not stopping there.New Horizons is zooming farther and farther out into the Kuiper Belt — a zone of...
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Right now Buzz Aldrin may be our best hope of colonizing Mars
Buzz Aldrin just announced plans for the most realistic private pathway to Mars we've ever heard: opening a research program at a university.It's called the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute, and it will...
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Astronauts are experimenting with trying to control machines on earth from space
Danish European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen is attempting a world’s first next month when he tries to control robotic arms from space using a new haptic remote control. The system uses...
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