NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Just Had An Eye Exam
NASA's Mars 2020 rover is now less than one year away from finally being shot skyward toward the Red Planet, and NASA engineers are hard…
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CDC Shuts Down Military Virus Lab After Failed Safety Inspection
When you're handling some of the world's most deadly viruses and bacteria, safety should always be a top priority, but apparently the staff of the…
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Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Left A Bunch Of Microscopic 'Water Bears' On The Moon
It's been a few months now since Israel's Beresheet lunar lander experienced a last-second glitch and smashed into the Moon rather than landing softly on…
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Celebrating Seven Incredible Years On Mars
Earlier this year, NASA was forced to finally say goodbye to the trust Opportunity rover. It was a sad time for the space agency since…
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Watch SpaceX Launch The Oft-Delayed AMOS-17 Satellite Live Right Here
The AMOS-17 communications satellite should already be in space. The fact that it's not is the result of a rare combination of technical hitches and…
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Dog Kisses Blamed For Devastating Infection That Cost A Woman Her Hands And Legs
Dogs are man's best friend, but their mouths aren't the most sterile things in the world. In fact, a dog's mouth can be downright disgusting,…
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NASA Just Received A Major Data Dump From Its Mission To 'Touch The Sun'
We're rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's much-hyped mission to "Touch the Sun" with its Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft is…
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People Keep Finding Frogs In Their Packaged Salads
It sounds like an urban legend — a friend of a friend who knows someone who once took a bite of a live frog that…
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SpaceX Repairs And Bad Weather Force Multiple Satellite Launch Delays
Sending stuff into space isn't easy. SpaceX has made the process of making satellite deliveries into Earth orbit look incredibly easy, but there are still…
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Scientists Spotted An Incredibly Old Star Breathing Its Dying Breath
Age is a relative thing. With our finite (and relatively short) lifespans, humans tend to think of anything older than 100 years as being "really…
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The Most Accurate Model Of Our Galaxy Ever Created Shows The Milky Way Is Warped
Considering we can't actually see the Milky Way from the outside — since, you know, we're in it — astronomers know a surprising amount about…
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E-Scooters Aren't As Green As You Think
E-scooters have a very environmentally-friendly image. Tiny and battery-powered, they seem like a convenient, responsible alternative to making short trips in a car, but new…
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Astronomers Stumble Upon A New Kind Of Star, And It's A Heavy Breather
Humans don't yet possess the technology required to visit neighboring stars, but astronomers can still learn a great deal about them just by looking. The…
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Scientists Just Discovered A Planet Shaped Like A Football
If you were to make a list of exoplanets that would be worth visiting in person, WASP-121b wouldn't be anywhere near the top of your…
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Solar Sails Actually Work, And LightSail 2 Just Proved It
The idea seems totally crazy: A spacecraft with no active propulsion system that can travel through space using light in the same way that a…
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The First Meals Eaten On The Moon Were Truly Bizzare
When you're an astronaut, food options are somewhat limited during missions into space. You can't exactly order in, and meals have to be preserved and…
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NASA Just Hired SpaceX To Figure Out How To Refuel Ships In Space
Traveling to the Moon is hard, and sending crewed spacecraft to other planets will be even harder. One of the major challenges in deep space…
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NASA's Exoplanet Hunter Just Spotted A 'Super Earth' Orbiting A Nearby Star
In its 15 months of service, NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has racked up many exciting exoplanet discoveries, but few show promise in the search for…
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Smoke From Fires In Africa Fertilizes The Amazon Over 6,500 Miles Away
It's tempting to think that two locations separated by over 6,500 miles wouldn't have much of an impact on one another, but nothing could be…
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Russia Just Completed A Particularly Speedy Resupply Run To The International Space Station
It was just a few days ago that SpaceX shot one of its Dragon cargo ships into space, and it was packed with supplies for…
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Delta Pilot Yanked From Boarded Plane Because He Was Probably Drunk
Travelers hoping to depart from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on Tuesday morning were forced to delay their plans after their pilot was pulled from…
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Scientists In Japan Get Clearance For Growing Human-Animal Hybrids
Genetic modification can be a touchy subject in scientific circles, especially when the life form being modified is an animal. Researchers fear that the consequences…
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Apollo 11 Installed An Experiment On The Moon That Is Still Working Today
NASA's Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was…
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Researchers Worry That Hackers Could Turn Connected Cars Into Roadblocks
As carmakers continue to pack their newest models with all manner of "smart" technology, researchers are concerned that connected vehicles will become an increasingly irresistible…
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Scientists Move One Step Closer To Explaining Why Komodo Dragons Are So Awesome
Komodo dragons are incredible animals. They're lizards, but they have a number of unique tweaks to their chemistry that gives them advantages often only seen…
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NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Just Spotted A Trio Of New Worlds
NASA's TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — has been scanning the skies for a little over a year now and it's already returned a…
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Watch Japan's Asteroid Probe Touch Down On Asteroid Ryugu
Japanese space agency JAXA has had an up-close-and-personal relationship with the asteroid known as Ryugu ever since its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft entered orbit around the space…
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