Astronomers Spot A Trio Of Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting A Distant Star
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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Scientists Just Discovered Something Very Special About Jupiter's Lightning
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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NASA Reveals That It's Found Organic Molecules On Mars That May Have Come From Life
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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NASA's New Horizons Probe Just Woke Back Up
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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SpaceX Forced To Delay Plans For First Space Tourism Launch
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…
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Earth's Days Used To Be Just 18 Hours Long, But The Moon Changed That
If 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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Mythical 'Planet 9' Might Actually Just Be A Bunch Of Very Rude Asteroids
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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Pint-Sized Asteroid Spotted Just Hours Before Slamming Into Earth's Atmosphere
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…
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SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Launch For Second Time, Now Targeting June 4th
SpaceX 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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Sex On Mars Is Going To Be Risky, But It Could Create A New Human Subspecies
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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Chinese 'UFO' Found Crashed In A Forest Turns Out To Be Space Trash
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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Is Pluto Really Just A Giant Comet?
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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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Destroyed This Photographer's Camera, But Not Before It Captured An Awesome Shot
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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Watch SpaceX Deliver NASA's Gravity-Sniffing GRACE Satellites Into Orbit Today
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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This Bizarre Exo-Asteroid Is Our Solar System's First Confirmed Interstellar Immigrant
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…
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China Inches Closer To Moon Exploration With Launch Of New Satellite
China 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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Yes, There Might Actually Be A 'Planet Nine,' And The Evidence Is Mounting
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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Scientists Release New Evidence Of Liquid Water Under Europa's Icy Crust
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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SpaceX Just Successfully Landed Its Most Powerful Rocket Yet
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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This 'Singing' Space Cloud Is Where Stars And Planets Are Born
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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Watch SpaceX Launch Its Upgraded Falcon 9 'Block 5' For The Very First Time Today
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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Astronomers Identify Massive Asteroid Leftover From The Early Solar System
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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NASA Spots Kilauea Lava Flows From Space
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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Here's What Might Happen When The Sun Finally Bites The Cosmic Dust
You don't need me to tell you that the Sun is pretty important to all of us. Without it, we wouldn't be here, but it…
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Wild New Theory May Explain Why Some Aliens Never Leave Their Home Planet
If you're looking for reasons why mankind hasn't found aliens yet, you can come up with a whole bunch of them. We've never left our…
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NASA Builds Nuclear Reactor For Space That's Capable Of Providing Power For 10 Years
Exploring space, traveling to other worlds, and making observations of far-off planets is humanity's next big challenge. We're already accomplishing some of those feats, but…
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Boeing Makes A Fool Of Itself By Calling Out SpaceX, Saying The Falcon Heavy Just Isn't Big Enough
When SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket earlier this year, it earned the title of "most powerful operational rocket." That little "operational" modifier is pretty…
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