Spotting a planet orbiting a star 8,000 light-years away isn't exactly easy, but modern telescope technology has allowed astronomers to accomplish such feats with shocking…
Read MoreThe story of the strange hole in a Russian vehicle attached to the International Space Station continues to get stranger. Just yesterday comments from the…
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The Japanese asteroid probe Hayabusa-2 has already delivered some gorgeous images from its orbit around the asteroid Ryugu which it arrived at a number of…
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There are officially eight planets in our Solar System — yes, I know, Pluto was totally a planet, but not anymore — but that doesn't…
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If you were planning on holding a Halloween bash on October 31st, you might want to reschedule. A very special asteroid is going to make…
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It's only been a couple of days since Japanese space agency JAXA showed off the very first images taken from an asteroid's surface, but we're…
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Remember back in April when China's Tiangong-1 space station unceremoniously fell out of the sky, burned up in the atmosphere and rained a bit of…
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Late in 2017 our Solar System received a very peculiar visitor. Called Oumuamua, it was a comet (or was it an asteroid?) with a bizarre…
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Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it'll…
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Never let it be said that Elon Musk isn't one heck of an optimist. The SpaceX boss has been doing a whole lot of forecasting…
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We've seen plenty of photos taken from the surface of places other than Earth. There's the Moon of course, a huge archive of images snapped…
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We're used to NASA dropping gorgeous photos of far-off objects in space, but its most recent observations are much closer to home. In a new…
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To us puny humans, Earth is a pretty big place. There's lots to see, do, and explore here on the planet where we originated. We…
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At the end of August, Japanese space agency JAXA announced when it would attempt to deploy a pair of very special rovers to the surface…
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Mankind has made a real mess of planet Earth. Our trash is just about everywhere, from city streets to the most remote areas of the…
Read MoreWhen the European Space Agency launched the SMART-1 probe back in the early 2000s it was designed to have a relatively short lifespan. The spacecraft…
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After a relatively brief period of teasing the announcement, SpaceX took the opportunity on Monday night to announce its very first paying passenger for a…
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SpaceX is already making headlines around the world for its efforts to make spaceflight more affordable for organizations like NASA as well as private companies,…
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NASA's TESS spacecraft — that stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in case you had somehow forgotten — is an incredibly powerful tool for spotting…
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Peering at distant planets is a tricky business for astronomers. There's plenty that they can assume about planets based on what they look like from…
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SpaceX has long been bullish on the idea of selling seats on its spacecraft to private citizens who are willing to pony up enough cash…
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Gazing into space with a high-powered telescope can produce some pretty impressive findings. Scientists regularly discover the presence of far-off worlds by staring at distant…
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have a gorgeous view of Earth whenever they want it. Since the space station completes a full orbit of…
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Hey, remember Pluto? Of course you do! When most of us were brought up in school we learned that there were nine known planets in…
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When astronomers search for exoplanets, the real goal is finding a distant world that might be within what scientists believe is the habitable zone. Those…
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All eyes these days may be on NASA's shiny new exoplanet hunter TESS, but the group's Kepler space telescope still has some life left in…
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The saga of the hole in the International Space Station is taking some serious twists today, in the wake of yesterday's declaration that it was…
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