At today's meeting of the National Space Council, President Trump directed the Pentagon and Defense Department to "immediately begin the process" of establishing a "space…
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By now you've surely heard about the massive dust storm currently raging on Mars. Our planetary neighbor is experiencing a pretty serious bout of cloudy…
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The Sun is big. By volume, the Sun could fit roughly 1.3 million Earths inside of it, but new research suggests that our friendly star…
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Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn't easy or we'd probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously…
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Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We've already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don't push the Earth…
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Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When…
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Earlier this week NASA announced that it had something it wanted to tell us about Mars. Today, NASA scientists presented their findings in a pair…
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The last we heard of NASA's New Horizons probe was when NASA released a set of photos taken at the farthest point any spacecraft has…
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Private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have made some big promises when it comes to tourism in space. Eager (and very wealthy) astronaut…
Read MoreIf you've ever felt like there just aren't enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn't live on Earth 1.4 billion years…
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Remember "Planet 9"? No I'm not talking about Pluto. That ship has sailed. I'm talking about the maybe-kinda-sorta hidden planet that might-kinda-maybe be lurking at…
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Generally speaking, NASA has a pretty good idea of which asteroids are hanging out in Earth's neighborhood. Astronomers have spotted, plotted, and forecasted asteroid flybys…
Read MoreSpaceX has had a very, very busy year thus far. The company's steady diet of rocket launches has gone exceedingly well — aside from a…
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The idea of a colony of humans on Mars isn't just science fiction anymore; NASA and space agencies around the world, along with independent scientists…
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With that incredibly strange UFO report and jaw-dropping video from the US Navy still fresh in everyone's minds, news out of China that a UFO…
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Pluto has had a pretty interesting past few decades. Long considered the ninth official planet, astronomers who redefined what "planet" really means decided to reclassify…
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Photographing a rocket launch is a tricky thing. Getting a great shot from a distance is easy, but if you want a truly world-class photo…
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SpaceX is continuing its rapid-fire schedule of rocket launches today with a dual-purpose mission to deliver satellites for both NASA and its communications client Iridium.…
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Immigration is a hotly-debated topic around the world, but it turns out that our Solar System is far more welcoming than some of the countries…
Read MoreChina really, really, really wants to explore the Moon — more specifically, the dark side of the Moon. The country has been steadily moving towards…
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Lots of us grew up learning that there were nine planets in the Solar System. In the early 2000s we were told a different story,…
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If we're going to find extraterrestrial life inside of our own Solar System there's only a handful of places where scientists believe we might find…
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By now, SpaceX landing one of its Falcon 9 rockets (or even landing two, for that matter) is barely worthy of a headline. But late…
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Long before our Sun formed it was nothing more than a bunch of material floating listlessly in a large cloud of gas, dust, and debris.…
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SpaceX has had an incredibly busy year so far in 2018. The company started the year by showing off its Falcon Heavy for the first…
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Scientists believe that the Earth has been around in some form for roughly four and a half billion years, and the Solar System is only…
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When Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted late last week it wasn't exactly the kind of massive, explosive event that you see in disaster movies starring Pierce…
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