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This image shows the surprising distance between the moon and Earth
On November 26, a Japanese spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the moon from 1.9 million miles away, just drifting through the inky black void of space:When you think about the scale of the...
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The stakes have never been higher for SpaceX’s next launch
After failing twice to land a rocket on a ship at sea, SpaceX plans to try again in December — but this time on solid ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida Today reports.SpaceX, founded by tech mogul Elon...
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This 1-minute animation will change your perception of life in the universe
If extraterrestrial life is anything like what we see on Earth, then chances are it's living on Earth-like planets thousands, or even millions, of light years from our solar system.Today, astronomers...
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The sun could release a 'superflare' 1,000 times more powerful than anything...
The sun is capable of releasing a giant burst of plasma that'd be equivalent to the energy released by 100 billion 1-megaton bombs, according to new research.To put that in perspective, the most...
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Business Insider is hiring a paid intern who loves to write about science
Business Insider Science is looking for a paid editorial intern to join us this Winter!Interns at Business Insider aren't sent on coffee runs or forced to spend their days filing or making...
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Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company is building a monster engine that'll...
Key to any rocketship is the complex, powerful engines that blast it into space, and right now a private spaceflight company called Blue Origin is working on a monster one that could eventually shuttle...
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This Japanese spacecraft finally made it to Venus — 5 years late
After missing a turn off the interplanetary expressway, a spacecraft has now finished taking the scenic route to Venus.The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency Akatsuki probe successfully went into...
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Here's how ridiculously fast we could visit everything in the solar system if...
For humans, the mysteriously wondrous planets and moons in our solar system are ridiculously far away and can take many years to reach.But for light traveling at 670 million mph, even the farthest...
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Sending humans to Mars could uncover a disturbing truth to one of life's...
If humankind successfully lands people on the surface of Mars, we could discover an important clue about the origins of life on Earth — one of the greatest scientific mysteries in human history. A...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains the problem with the Death Star
Owning a Death Star comes with some serious risk, especially when it was constructed with a serious design flaw. But astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a more practical reason why the 'Star Wars'...
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A new space mining law could kick off an extraterrestrial gold rush
NEW YORK - Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping "space water" might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining.In a first,...
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This video of astronauts pleading to save the Earth may bring you to tears
Astronauts have a front-row seat to the indescribable beauty of Earth. But that view comes with a catch, if not a grave responsibility: They can also watch our planet's destruction play out from 250...
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The serious hunt for aliens around a mysterious star is jumpstarting a...
Alien-hunting telescopes have peered at the mysterious star KIC8462852 and are quickly unraveling the theory that this star could harbor an advanced civilization.The search is just the beginning of a...
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These are the 4 likeliest places we'll find alien life
Distant moons, asteroids, and mysterious objects drifting beyond Pluto have yet to be explored.There's no telling what we may yet discover — but life beyond Earth is a distinct possibility.During a...
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These mysterious white spots in space may be a mineral similar to a laxative
Scientists think they've finally solved the mystery of the strange bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt.We got our first glimpse of one of the bright spots back in 2003, and this...
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We visited the most powerful rocket ever built — and it was even better than...
It's not every day that you get to stand next to the prodigious Saturn V rocket — the most powerful rocket ever built and NASA's ride to the moon.To this day, the Saturn V — a ticket into the history...
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We’re fundamentally altering the night skies, and it's threatening much more...
Astronomers have much to celebrate in the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL). Until the 1930s, every scrap of information about the universe came to us in the form of...
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This new engine could ferry supplies to Mars using 100 million times less fuel
Scientists have figured out how to create a new ion engine that uses 100 million times less fuel than a chemical rocket.Though the device is a lot less powerful, it could some day be a cost-effective...
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President Obama just named his favorite movie of the year — here's why his...
President Obama just revealed his favorite movie of 2015: Ridley Scott's "The Martian."According to Vanity Fair, Obama didn't offer any explanation for why it was his favorite, but he's certainly not...
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Elon Musk just announced when SpaceX will fly for the first time since its...
SpaceX is scheduled to launch its newly upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 19, according to a tweet by CEO Elon Musk: Aiming for Falcon rocket static fire at Cape Canaveral on the 16th and launch about...
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