The Parker Solar Probe Is Now The Fastest Thing Mankind Has Ever Built
The Parker Solar Probe is having one heck of a week. It was only yesterday that NASA announced its do-it-all star-studying machine has gotten closer…
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Russia Finally Explains What Went Wrong With The Soyuz Rocket
It's only been a few weeks since the Soyuz rocket launched by Russian space agency Roscosmos was forced to abort its launch shortly after takeoff.…
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The Exoplanet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Is Now Dead
If you've read anything about newly discovered exoplanets over the past decade there's a really good chance the discovery was made by the Kepler space…
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Here's Your Once-In-A-Lifetime Chance To Own A Moon Rock
We're all pretty familiar with the Moon from a very young age. It's usually one of the first topics talked about in our earliest science…
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Now The Closest To The Sun That Any Spacecraft Has Ever Been
NASA's much-hyped mission to "touch the Sun" has only been underway for a couple of months, but it's already achieved something that no other spacecraft…
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One Of The Milky Way's Satellite Galaxies Started Leaking Into Another
As chaotic as life is here on Earth, it's not often that we have time to look up at the night sky and ponder the…
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NASA's Solar Probe Spares A Thought For Earth As It Speeds Towards The Sun
NASA began its mission to "touch the Sun" back in mid-August, sending the Parker Solar Probe towards our star on a first-of-its-kind trip that will…
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Russia Will Be Ready To Resume Soyuz Flights Soon, NASA Says
It's only been a couple of weeks since Russia's Soyuz rocket launch towards the International Space Station ended abruptly due to an unspecified failure, sending…
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Astronomers Spot The Youngest Known Pulsar Ever, And Boy Is It Pretty
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that's not the case with Kes 75.…
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NASA Wants You To Make Stuff It Can Send To The Moon
As we've known for several months now, NASA is headed back to the Moon. The administration will be sending all manner of instruments to the…
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A Big Chunk Of Space Junk Came Crashing Down In California, And It's Just Been Identified
When a farmer in Hanford, California took a casual stroll out to his walnut orchard recently, the last thing he expected to find was a…
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NASA's Chandra Spacecraft Snaps Out Of 'Safe Mode' Funk, Resumes Operations
It was only a few days ago that NASA announced its Chandra X-Ray Observatory was experiencing a bit of unexpected downtime. The spacecraft was forced…
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Scientists Are Going To Face Off In Los Angeles To Decide Where The Next Mars Rover Lands
Hey, we're going to Mars! Well, not us specifically, but NASA is, and they really need to know where to land before they light the…
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Russia Thinks It Knows Why Its Trusty Soyuz Rocket Failed
Last week's seemingly routine Roscosmos launch to the International Space Station went a bit sideways after the rocket carrying a NASA astronaut and his Russian…
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NASA's One Last Hope For Reviving The Opportunity Rover May Rest With Mars Itself
With NASA's Hubble and Chandra spacecraft both choosing the same week to malfunction, it's obviously been a trying time for space agency engineers who are…
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The Failed Soyuz Rocket Looked Like A Giant Needle And Thread From Space
Traveling to the International Space Station is a pretty special thing that only a very select group of people will ever have the opportunity to…
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Astronauts Headed For ISS Forced To Make Emergency Landing After In-Flight Rocket Failure
It's been an interesting couple of months for Russia's space program. Everything had been going quite smoothly for Roscosmos ahead of the bizarre hole discovered…
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More Mysterious Radio Signals Heard In Deep Space, And Scientists Are Still Baffled
Humans love staring at images of distant galaxies snapped from high-powered telescopes, but sometimes listening instead of looking can yield even more tantalizing hints at…
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NASA's Voyager 2 Is About To Break Out Of The Solar System
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they've been speeding along…
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Launch Gave California Residents Another Scare
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space Sunday evening, ferrying a satellite into orbit and then successfully landing its rocket back down on land…
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Artist Envisions What A Martian Mini-House Might Look Like
Mankind isn't ready to go to Mars... at least not yet. Space agencies and scientific groups from around the world are working hard towards the…
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Saturn's Iconic Rings Are Raining Thousands Of Pounds Of Material Onto The Planet Every Second
Some people love when it rains, but even the most devoted storm-lovers here on Earth would have a hard time dealing with the conditions on…
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After Nearly 200 Days, Three ISS Crew Members Land Safely Back On Earth
A trio of scientists who spent nearly 200 days in space have now landed safely back on Earth after departing the International Space Station. NASA's…
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Planet-Sized Object 8,000 Light Years Away Could Be The First Alien Moon Ever Found
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…
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NASA Issues Statement Walking Back Some Comments By Russian Officials On ISS Leak
The 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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Japan's Asteroid Probe Sends Lander To Surface, Delivers Another 'First' Photo
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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Astronomers Spot A New Object Orbiting The Sun That Supports The Planet Nine Theory
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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