Elon Musk's Red Roadster Just Completed Its First Lap Around The Sun
It's now been about a year and a half since Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster was sent into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy…
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Scientists Found Stardust In The Most Unlikely Of Places
Earth has managed to avoid any truly catastrophic impacts from objects in space for quite some time, but that doesn't mean material from the cosmos…
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Mars Was Once Warm And Rainy Before Turning Frigid, Study Finds
Scientists have learned a lot about Mars in recent years, and based on observations from the fancy hardware NASA has sent to the Red Planet…
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India's Chandrayaan-2 Mission Just Hit A Major Milestone
India is now poised to become the fourth country on Earth to pull off a soft Moon landing. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched…
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Study Confirms That, Yes, A Nuclear War Between The US And Russia Would Be The End Of Days
It might sound silly to think that a nuclear war between the United States and Russia would be anything but the apocalypse, but for scientists…
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NASA Needs Your Help To Deliver Cargo To Its Lunar Gateway
NASA is inching closer to its return to the Moon, but its push to send crewed missions to the lunar surface is really just the…
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Plague-Ridden Prairie Dogs Pose Danger To Colorado Tourists
Officials at a Colorado wildlife refuge are cautiously moving forward with a plan to reopen parts of their facility this week in the wake of…
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Elon Musk Is Once Again On A Quest To 'Nuke Mars'
If there's one thing you can say about Elon Musk it's that he's never lacked ambition. He's founded a number of successful companies, and with…
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Scientists Stunned After Spotting Record-Shattering Supernova
Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in…
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Ancient Cave Bears Were Pushed To Extinction By Humans, Not Climate
Cave bears no longer exist. They went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, and all we have left of the massive ancient creatures are…
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NASA Went To Iceland And Pretended It Was Mars
The scheduled launch date of NASA's Mars 2020 mission is rapidly approaching, and with less than a year to go, it's truly crunch time for…
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Airlines Might Rebrand 737 Max, Even If Boeing Doesn't
Major airlines all over the globe have a serious problem on their hands, and it's not just the fact that the Boeing 737 Max remains…
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New Study Finds That Breathing In Polluted Cities Is Just As Bad As Smoking
By now we all know how devastating a heavy smoking habit can be for our overall health, but the air wafting around your neighborhood might…
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Baby Jupiter Was Smacked By A Planet 4.5 Billion Years Ago
Jupiter has long been hailed as the mighty "king of planets" thanks to its massive size compared to most of the other planets in our…
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Amazon's Facial Recognition System Flags Dozens Of California Lawmakers As Criminals
Facial recognition technology has come a long way in recent years, and today many smartphone users rely on face unlock features to keep their devices…
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Here Are The Four Spots Where NASA's Asteroid Probe Might Land
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently hanging out around the asteroid known as Bennu. It's been there for months, taking photos and scanning the asteroid's surface…
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NASA's Methane Discovery On Mars Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting
Back in late June, NASA revealed that sensors on its Curiosity rover were returning alarmingly high readings of methane that came seemingly out of nowhere.…
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Scientists Tasked A Supercomputer With Building Millions Of Simulated Universes
Figuring out how our reality took shape over billions of years is no easy task for scientists. Theories about how the Big Bang played out…
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Being Overweight Is Even More Of A Cancer Risk Than Previously Thought
The risks of being obese are fairly well documented, and while it's true that a person who is significantly overweight can better their odds of…
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Astronomers Just Found A Black Hole So Huge It Makes Our Galaxy's Black Hole Look Like A Baby
At the heart of our home galaxy is a supermassive black hole that gobbles up anything that gets too close. It's huge, with a mass…
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Dead Planets Beam 'Zombie' Radio Signals Into Space For Up To A Billion Years, Scientists Say
New exoplanet discoveries have been popping up with increasing regularity in recent years thanks to technological advances that allow scientists to spot evidence of their…
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Something Slammed Into Jupiter, And All We Saw Was A Flash
It was only about a day ago that NASA showed off some Hubble's finest work yet in the form of new images of Jupiter. The…
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Destroyed Fukushima Nuclear Plant Is Out Of Space To Store Radioactive Water
Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a devastating meltdown back in 2011, and while news about the disaster has died down significantly since then, the…
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Hubble Just Snapped A Glorious New Image Of Jupiter
The Hubble Space Telescope is really, really good at spotting distant objects in space, but it's just as well-suited for catching a snapshot of planets…
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NASA Fires Up Orion's Engines For Critical Test
NASA is sending humans back to the Moon. Nobody knows for sure whether that will happen in 2024 or a somewhat later date, but it's…
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NASA's Spitzer Just Spotted A Galaxy Perfectly Aligned With Earth
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is capable of capturing some truly stunning snapshots of distant features in space, and usually, when we see images of vast…
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Watch SpaceX Catch Its Rocket Fairing In A Massive Net
After a number of delays due to hardware issues as well as bad weather, SpaceX finally managed to send the AMOS-17 communications satellite into Earth…
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