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Elon Musk congratulates Jeff Bezos' for his amazing rocket landing and...
On Monday, Nov. 23, Jeff Bezos' private company, Blue Origin, launched its New Shepard rocket to an altitude of 62 miles. And then they did something incredible: They brought the rocket back in one...
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We will be able to see a supernova in the sky next year
A supernova will appear in the sky in the first few months of 2016, according to astronomers working on the Hubble Space Telescope.The prediction is possible because they first saw the star explode in...
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There's a major difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin that makes them...
This year is shaping up to be an extremely exciting time for the future of spaceflight, which is being built on the backbone of revolutionary 21st-century reusable rockets.And the private American...
View ArticleJeff Bezos' company Blue Origin just made space flight history
Blue Origin recently pulled off a huge milestone for space travel, its New Shepard rocket became the first reusable rocket to fly to outer space and land safely back on Earth. Produced by Christine...
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' Twitter spat gets at the core of what separates...
A bit of a Twitter fight is happening between SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, two billionaires whose private spaceflight companies are leading the future of reusable-rocket...
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Future humans could live in subway-like tunnels on Mars
Unlike our lovely Earth, Mars won't shield us from blasts of cosmic radiation.If we hope to live there, we'll need to equip our future colonies with underground tunnels, Robert Zubrin, founder of the...
View ArticleElon Musk is roping Jeff Bezos into a Twitter fight about rockets
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin made history on November 24, when it launched and then landed its New Shepard rocket back on Earth after releasing a capsule at the edge of space.It was a big...
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Move over SpaceX and Blue Origin: The first reusable rockets flew in the 1960s
Tuesday, Nov. 23 marked an important moment in history for Jeff Bezos' private space company Blue Origin.For the first time, they succeeded in launching their New Shepard reusable launch system to...
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5 huge mistakes Albert Einstein can never take back
Albert Einstein changed the world forever 100 years ago today (November 25) by publishing his theory of general relativity.Relativity is now a centerpiece of modern physics, the reason GPS satellites...
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Jeff Bezos' rocket company rips Elon Musk's rocket company
Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is hitting back at Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX.Blue Origin says its rocket launch is as impressive as what SpaceX has accomplished — if not more so —...
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Albert Einstein once destroyed a 56-year-old planet
We know Albert Einstein best for his revolutionary physics theories, but he also made a huge (though lesser-known) breakthrough in planetary science.From the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, many...
View ArticleA space engineer explains why humans will never go past Mars
Louis Friedman, an aerospace engineer and author of "Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars," believes that humans may never travel past Mars. The former head of The Planetary Society says...
View ArticleThe first woman in space almost didn’t make it back to Earth and she had to...
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Astronomers catch a supermassive black hole doing something they've never...
Astronomers observed a supermassive black hole swallowing up a star and shooting out a flare traveling at almost the speed of light, an international team reported Thursday in the journal Science.The...
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Scientists finally figured out why Rosetta's comet looks like a duck
Looks like comet 67P's union might give Pluto and Charon's love story a run for its money.In a paper published today in the journal Nature, researchers conclude that the two lobes on the double-lobed...
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A piece of SpaceX rocket just washed ashore after spending over a year at...
While some of us were busy munching on turkey this Thanksgiving, a crew of men off the coast of the Isles of Scilly were busy retrieving a piece of SpaceX history. Here's a man on the Lyonesse Lady...
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These views of Earth from space at night are incredible — and impossible
Nothing makes me feel more connected to the rest of the human race than seeing the Earth from space at night.National borders vanish, and rivers of light unite our towns and cities into a single...
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Amazing space photos of alien objects that look eerily familiar
From the man in the moon to Greek gods among the stars, humans have long been discovering familiar forms in the heavens.There's a word for this phenomenon of seeing patterns that don't exist:...
View ArticleThis photographer bought an old space suit off of eBay — now he's the...
Over a year ago, Tim Dodd put the minimum bid on an old space suit online. When it arrived at his doorstep, he wasn't sure what on Earth he would actually do with it.Join the conversation about this...
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MIT scientists say they have charted a course for Mars
NASA wants to send its astronauts to Mars, but first it should make a brief detour to the moon, according to a group of MIT researchers.It's a very different plan than the NASA astronauts in the latest...
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