Outer Space Has Way Better Fireworks Than We Ever Will
Well, it's the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you'll be…
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Happy Fourth Of July From The International Space Station!
The International Space Station is, as its name implies, a common ground for astronauts from many different countries, but that doesn't stop them from having…
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Just Got Closer To Dwarf Planet Ceres Than Ever Before, And Here's What It Looks Like
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is one that we don't hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf…
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NASA's Latest Photo Of Jupiter Is Pretty Enough To Be Your Desktop Wallpaper
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System by a pretty wide margin, and while it's not exactly the most welcoming to human visitors,…
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A Massive Object Devastated Uranus A Long Time Ago And It Never Fully Recovered
Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn't always the case. In the period when the planets…
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Watch Live As NASA Scientists Hunt For Meteorites In The Pacific Ocean
NASA loves looking for cool stuff in space, but every once in a while something from space ends up here on Earth. That was the…
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Hawaii's Proposed Sunscreen Ban Is Expected To Become Law This Week
Hawaii is known for its seemingly endless expanse of sunny beaches, so it's obviously not the kind of place you'd want to find yourself without…
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Robots Are Coming For The Stuntmen's Jobs Next
It's already a lame joke/terrifyingly possible dystopia that robots will have taken all our jobs by 2040, but we often assume that a handful of…
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ESA's Slightly Creepy AI Assistant Is Headed To The International Space Station And Definitely Won't Kill Everyone
Science fiction movies have taught us that mixing AI with space travel rarely works out well. From HAL 9000 to Mother, something always seems to…
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Scientists Just Changed Their Mind About That 'Alien Probe' Asteroid Again
The bizarre interstellar visitor that whizzed through our Solar System late last year stunned scientists the world over. The object, named Oumuamua snuck up out…
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The Possibility Of Alien Life On Saturn's Moon Enceladus Just Got Much More Realistic
Scientists continue to peer deeper into the galaxy in the search for exoplanets that may host alien life, but our best chance of finding extraterrestrial…
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Japan's Asteroid Probe Just Arrived At A Massive Space Rock, And Now It Gets To Blow Stuff Up
Back in 2014, Japan's space program JAXA launched an asteroid probe that had a long journey ahead of it. The spacecraft, called Hayabusa 2, spent…
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A Bunch Of Stupid Human Errors Have Delayed NASA's New Space Telescope Yet Again, This Time To 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope is easily the most-anticipated new piece of hardware in NASA's arsenal. The telescope is incredibly powerful and will give scientists…
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Will We Even Recognize Alien Life When We See It? NASA Isn't So Sure
Decades of science fiction movies, tv shows, and video games have led us to believe that when we spot another planet that has life we're…
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China Is Using Robotic Bird Drones With Cameras To Monitor Its Citizens
When you gaze into the sky, what do you see? If you happen to live in China, the answer might be surveillance drones disguised as…
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NASA Showcases Gorgeous New Photo Of Jupiter That Looks Almost Too Amazing To Be Real
Man, Jupiter sure is weird. The gas giant is one of the most-photographed objects in our Solar System thanks to its mesmerizing, swirling cloud tops,…
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Popular Toymaker Apologizes For Selling Model Of Nazi UFO That Never Actually Existed
Revell is one of the most well-known and respected hobbyist brands on the planet. The company has been in business for three-quarters of a century,…
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Bright Fireball Streaks Through The Sky Over Russia, Causing Sonic Boom
It was just last week that NASA publicly revealed its plans to enhance its tracking and detection systems for smaller near-Earth objects, and now a…
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Colossal Dust Storm On Mars Is Turning Everything Blood Red, And It's Incredibly Freaky
Mars is known as the "Red Planet," but it's even more crimson as of late. The massive dust storm that has fully enveloped the planet…
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Blue Origin, Which Has Yet To Send A Human Into Space, Will Start Selling Tickets For Spaceflight Next Year
What is it with these private spaceflight companies always jumping the gun? SpaceX has become notorious for delaying and pushing back previously-stated target dates —…
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New Study Says Coffee Is Good For You, And You Should Be Drinking Four Cups Per Day
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages the world over but, like so many things that humans love, there's always been a question over…
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Here's How NASA Is Going To Use The International Space Station To See How Stressed Out Earth's Plants Are
Determining the health of any given plant can often be accomplished simply by examining it, but gauging the overall wellbeing of plants over a large…
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NASA Has A New Plan To Find All The Earth-Threatening Asteroids It Hasn't Detected Yet
Thanks to the steady stream of new asteroid discoveries that rolls out of NASA and other skywatching groups around the world you might think that…
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New Video Shows Hawaii's Lava River Flowing Faster Than You Can Run
The US Geological Survey has released a new video of the highly active Fissure 8, which has been releasing lava from the Kilauea for over…
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This New High-Speed Rover Simulator Uses Actual Mars Terrain Scans
Humans are definitely (probably) going to visit Mars some day. When that day finally comes, whatever hardware we decide to bring to the Red Planet…
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Giant 'Plant From Hell' Is Spreading Across The United States, And Just Touching It Will Ruin Your Day
The long, sunny days of summer are coming — in some areas they're already here — but anyone who comes across the Giant Hogweed plant…
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Supposed 'Alien Ship' Crashed On Mars Has A Much More Mundane Explanation
An incredibly bizarre feature on Mars which conspiracy theorists believe is clear evidence of alien life is actually just a really, really weird rock formation,…
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