A meteor streaked through the skies above a heavily populated area of Australia last night, prompting countless residents to gaze skyward and sparking a scientific…
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NASA's 2019 started off with a bang as its New Horizons probe zipped by the most distant object mankind has ever tried to visit, a…
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When Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the Moon and handed over the first samples of lunar material ever gathered by human hands it was a…
Read MoreNASA astronauts who visited the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission hauled back a whole bunch of material from its surface. At the time, they…
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Today, NASA is celebrating the monumental achievements of the Opportunity rover as it tallies a full 15 years on the planet Mars. The rover landed…
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The Doomsday Clock, which was bumped up to just two minutes from midnight in early 2018, remains at the same setting for 2019. It's the…
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It was almost exactly one year ago today that Chinese scientists revealed that they had successfully cloned a monkey, resulting in the live births of…
Read MoreNASA's Apollo 11 mission landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in July of 1969, but that's not what some would have…
Read MoreHumans have tamed (or utterly destroyed) much of the planet in our brief time here, but there's still plenty we don't know about Earth's history.…
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Finding an ancient monument that has been sitting for thousands of years is a special thing, but when it's been "hiding" in plain sight, its…
Read MoreHow do you mine for resources in a place where humans haven't set foot for over four decades? That's a question the European Space Agency…
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Skywatchers had plenty to be excited about this past weekend thanks to a lunar eclipse that was visible from the Americas as well as parts…
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Italian particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti cornered Tesla chief executive Elon Musk last July in London at a gathering of the Royal Society scientific academy. Gianotti,…
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Alzheimer's disease is an incredibly serious late-life aliment that can have a massive impact on an individual's quality of life and self sufficiency. The good…
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Determining the length of a single day on a planet is usually pretty easy. You just pick a landmark and wait for it to reach…
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Sharks have been around for a long, long time, and of all the creatures that roam the Earth today they're one of the few that…
Read MoreEarth's Moon might seem a bit boring when viewing it with the naked eye, with its monochrome surface and blurry patches revealing little from afar,…
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An as-of-yet unseen planet may be lurking at the very distant edge of our Solar System... or it might not exist at all. That incredibly…
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Sadly, the United States (and the rest of the continent) missed out on a lunar eclipse last summer, but we will get one more chance…
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A big chunk of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed last month off the coast of a couple of Indonesian islands, with the collapse of that…
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NASA's Cassini orbiter has been dead for well over a year now, but its incredible discoveries continue to trickle in as researchers pore over data…
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In a development that will likely have huge implications for the future of space travel, China's Chang'e 4 lunar lander successfully managed to plant and…
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Both SpaceX and NASA are eager to get the Dragon cargo spacecraft back to Earth now that it has fulfilled its duties in bringing much-needed…
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Car seats have come a long way from the rigid benches drivers were forced to plop their bottoms on many decades ago, and today's seats…
Read MoreNASA might still be waiting for its first real test of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft — which was recently pushed back into February for unspecified…
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon is one of the spacecraft that NASA will eventually use to ferry astronauts into space, but it's not quite there yet. Unfortunately,…
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Snapping images of distant worlds, galaxies, and stars is something that NASA is very good at, but it's not often that the space agency has…
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