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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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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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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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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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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Former Astronaut Doubts That NASA Or SpaceX Will Make It To Mars With Their Shiny New Rockets
It's widely known that the next frontier for manned space flight is Mars. It's our closest planetary neighbor that actually makes sense to visit, and…
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President Trump Orders Pentagon To Create A 'Separate But Equal' Space Force
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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Watch The Colossal Martian Dust Storm Swallow The Planet, And Opportunity Along With It
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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Astronomers Discover That The Sun Has To Deal With Shrinkage
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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When We Finally Find Aliens, We Might Find Their Garbage First
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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