NASA Says Dropping A Bomb On Mars Is Probably Not Going To Make It A Better Place To Live
Mars is the most Earth-like planet in our Solar System. It's rocky, it's not too big or too small, and its temperature isn't that far…
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NASA Still Hasn't Decided On A Spacesuit For Future Missions, And It's Getting Kind Of Silly
NASA stands at the very edge of an incredibly exciting time in space exploration. Mankind has discovered incredibly interesting things on Mars as well as…
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The US Missed Friday's Blood Moon Eclipse, But These Images From The ISS Are Stunning
Friday night offered skywatchers a fantastic reason to look up, with the longest total lunar eclipse of the century. It was a fantastic event for…
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NASA's High-Powered Planet Hunting Satellite Is Now Searching For Alien Worlds
Way back in April, NASA finally managed to launch TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS is the latest weapon in NASA's arsenal that is…
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NASA Is Ready To Name The Astronauts Who Will Take The Very First SpaceX And Boeing Flights
NASA's plans for sending manned missions aboard spacecraft from SpaceX and Boeing might be a bit delayed — thanks to the companies, not NASA itself…
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Mars Looks So Weird Right Now
NASA's Hubble might be aging rapidly but it's still capable of taking some really, really fantastic photos. Scientists recently pointed the telescope at both Mars…
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You Can't See The Longest Total Lunar Eclipse Of The 21st Century From The US, So Watch Live Here
Last year, the United States got treated to an awesome skywatching event in the form of a total solar eclipse that traveled from one side…
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Researchers Spot What Looks Like A Standing 'Lake' Of Water On Mars
The hunt for evidence of past or present life on Mars has gotten a number of boosts in recent decades, including the discovery of what…
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Astronomers Found The Mangled Remains Of The Milky Way's Galactic Twin
Science fiction disaster movies like to imagine what life on Earth might be like in the midst of a space-borne catastrophe like an asteroid strike,…
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NASA May Have Just Caught A Nearby Star Eating An Entire Planet
Planetary systems aren't just born overnight. When stars form and begin pulling debris into their orbit, some of that material eventually clumps up into fledgling…
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NASA Finds 'Spiders' On Mars, But Not The Kind You're Thinking
The search for evidence of past life on Mars is a long, complicated endeavor that NASA has devoted an incredible amount of time and money…
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Venus Photobombed The Moon Last Night, And Everyone Loved It
If you're staring at the sky on a clear night it's usually pretty easy to spot the Moon, but we often forget that it's sometimes…
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Watch Cape Canaveral's Iconic Launch Towers Crumble In Early-Morning Demolition
Cape Canaveral has always been a cherished place for the US space program, having hosting some of the most important space missions stretching back decades.…
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Oops! NASA Might Have Destroyed Proof Of Life On Mars On Accident Decades Ago
Finding proof that life once existed on Mars would be one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the history of mankind, which is why NASA…
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New Telescope Camera Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Distant Star Cluster
NASA regularly delivers outer space eye candy snapped with its various telescopes, but the European Southern Observatory has plenty of star-gazing power as well, and…
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Video Captures Fireball Streaking Across The Midwestern US, Visible From 10 States
Skywatchers in 10 states in the Midwestern United States got a treat early on Sunday evening as a fireball careened through the atmosphere and produced…
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The Brightest Object In The Universe Was Just Discovered, But Is It Still There?
Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that…
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Check Out The Insane Heat Shield NASA Just Installed On The Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe is going to get close to the Sun than any spacecraft mankind has ever launched into space. It's going to study…
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Man, Space Is Huge
Size is relative. A carpenter ant is huge compared to a regular ant, but it's still tiny when compared to, say, your foot. The challenge…
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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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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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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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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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