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NASA wants to name parts of Pluto’s moon after Star Wars
Pluto's moon Charon might become a nerd's paradise if NASA has anything to say about it.It's already settled that Pluto's landscape features must have names that come from underworld mythology like...
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A long-lost GoPro that fell from the edge of space was recovered, and its...
In 2013, some friends attached a GoPro camera encased in a 3D-printed body to a weather balloon, as was the fashionin thosedays.They drove to their launch site, 20 miles west of the Grand Canyon. The...
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A NASA video shows what a total lunar eclipse looks like from the moon, and...
There is only one cosmic phenomenon that could generate this seemingly red ring of fire around Earth: The answer: A total lunar eclipse, like the one happening this month on Sept. 27. Read on to learn...
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Scientists think they know why Pluto's biggest moon has a giant red spot
Since NASA flew a spacecraft by Pluto in July, it has slowly released incredible images of the dwarf planet and its moons.Some of those new images of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have revealed a...
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A lost GoPro was found years after falling from the edge of space — and the...
In 2013, after months of planning, a group of Stanford University students launched a GoPro camera attached to a weather balloon to the edge of space.It would float up nearly 19 miles over Earth and...
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NASA just released this incredibly rare photo of a double solar eclipse
Why settle for a single solar eclipse, when you can have a double solar eclipse?For the first time in history, NASA has given us a glimpse of this rare event that you can only see from space because it...
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'The Martian' is the best space sci-fi movie of my time
I have seen the film adaptation of Andy Weir's best-selling novel "The Martian," and I can deliver my review in one sentence with zero spoilers: This is the best space sci-fi movie made within my...
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Elon Musk just used Instagram to show how his rocket company would land...
Someday, Elon Musk just might get humans to Mars.The billionaire's rocket company, SpaceX, is getting tantalizingly close to developing reusable rockets and a whole suite of spacecraft destined for the...
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'The Martian' is the best space sci-fi movie of my time — here's why
I have seen the film adaptation of Andy Weir's best-selling novel "The Martian," and I can deliver my review in one sentence with zero spoilers: This is the best space sci-fi movie made within my...
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Jeff Bezos just announced where his private space company will launch its...
Back in April, Jeff Bezos' private space company, Blue Origin, announced the first successful launch of its New Shepard spacecraft to space and back.The rocket was launched from the company's base in...
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Jeff Bezos just unveiled plans to build a new monster rocket that could give...
Today, during a media invent at Florida's premier launch complex on Cape Canaveral, billionaire Jeff Bezos announced that his private space company Blue Origin will be transitioning from its base in...
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Jeff Bezos just announced huge plans in Florida for his mysterious rocket...
Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos just announced that he's investing $200 million in a new operations base in Cape Canaveral, Florida for his mysterious rocket company Blue Origin.Blue Origin will take over...
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Here's the disturbing impact that space has on the human body and mind
Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan.The mission saw a cosmonaut clock up more days in space than any other human...
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An astronaut in space just took a video of 'blue jet' for the first time
From the large bay windows surrounding the International Space Station's glass-enclosed cupola, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen caught an electric sight never before captured from space: a giant blue...
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This chart shows all 10 of the likeliest ocean worlds in space
Ask someone "which way is the ocean?" and they'll probably point toward the coast.NASA would tell you to look up at the stars.Earth boasts roughly 320 million cubic miles' worth of water. That's a lot...
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Here's how the first humans will live on Mars and why traveling the 140...
No human has ever set foot on Mars, but that hasn't stopped science fiction writers like Andy Weir, author of the best-selling novel "The Martian," from imagining what it would be like to live on the...
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An icy moon of Saturn is hiding a gigantic ocean that could support life
After crunching nearly a decade's-worth of data, NASA scientists have resolved a long-standing mystery about Saturn's wobbly, icy moon, Enceladus: It has a giant ocean hiding beneath its icy crust, and...
View ArticleThis animation shows the complex features of Pluto, which rival anything...
In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time.The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto...
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Bill Nye says he wants to go to Mars, but there's a catch
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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Try to land Elon Musk's rockets in this addictive online game you can play...
Elon Musk is poised to revolutionize spaceflight with his rocket company SpaceX.The key to that revolution is reusable rockets. That's because every single rocket today will burn up or become space...
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