Stop Blaming The Sun For Global Warming
The Earth is getting warmer and warmer, and scientists are now essentially unanimous in their opinion that humans are to blame, but could other factors…
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Astronaut Pee Could Be Turned Into Plastics
Astronauts are masters at recycling, and the brave space farers aboard the International Space Station already repurpose urine and the humidity they exhale into drinking…
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'Diamond Rain' Proven Possible On Uranus And Neptune
Following up on a long-held theory that intense pressure within the ice giants of our solar system could lead to "diamond rain," researchers were able…
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The ISS Delivers A View Of The Solar Eclipse You Just Have To See
Now that all the eclipse hype has died down you probably think it's time to move on with your boring old non-eclipse life and get…
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How To Watch Today's Solar Eclipse Live On Any Device
The opportunity to check out a total solar eclipse can be a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing, but not everyone will be in a position to…
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Nine-Year-Old Boy Gets Closer To Scoring NASA's Planetary Protection Gig Than You Ever Will
Unless you're a seasoned NASA engineer with knowledge of planetary protection protocols and the guidelines that astronauts and scientists much adhere to in order to…
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A House-Sized Asteroid Will Come 'Damn Close' To Earth In October
Asteroid TC4 is a name you're going to hear a lot of in the coming weeks, and its remarkably close flyby of Earth will be…
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Some Horrible Human Being Stole Neil Armstrong's Solid Gold Lunar Lander Model
As the first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong is a legend. When he passed away in 2012, the world lost an American…
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First 'Exomoon' May Have Just Been Spotted By The Kepler Space Telescope
Astronomers around the world continue to spot new planets outside of our Solar System on a regular basis, and some of those worlds look like…
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Gorgeous Hubble Photo Of Mars 'Photobombed' By Tiny Moon
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope consistently delivers breathtaking views of the planets in our galactic neighborhood, but when it set its sights on Mars recently for…
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SpaceX Plans To Relaunch A Rocket Just 24 Hours After It Lands
SpaceX, the pioneering force behind reusable rocket technology, has already proven to the world that single-use rockets will one day be a thing of the…
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New Law Paves Way For Companies To Mine Asteroids
Mining companies pull valuable material out of the earth and sell it. That's their job, and while there's plenty of controversy over where, when, and…
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New NASA Video Shows Pluto As You've Never Seen It Before
It might not be a planet anymore, but Pluto is still a pretty interesting place. It's a rocky world covered in a thick layer of…
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Moon Express Wants To One-Up SpaceX And Blue Origin With Regular Moon Visits
When it comes to commercial space travel, the biggest names in the game right now are Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, but…
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Astronomers Just Discovered The Smallest Star Ever
We typically think of stars as colossal balls of fusion-driven fire that absolutely dwarf everything else, but researchers just made a discovery that offers a…
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Four Volunteers Were Just Locked In Sealed Lab For 200 Days For Simulated Moon Mission
If you were like most kids, you at least ventured the thought of becoming an astronaut when you grew up. The idea of flying into…
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Russia Wants To Beat SpaceX At Its Own Game
Despite ultimately losing the "space race" to the United States, followed by decades of dirty looks and blank stares from the then-Soviet Union, Russia is…
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The Fastest Stars In Our Galaxy Are Invaders
We're pretty familiar with our own Solar System, but the galaxy that we reside in is absolutely enormous. The Milky Way is thought to have…
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The Scariest Part Of An Asteroid Hitting Earth Probably Isn't What You Think
If you have a lingering fear of an unseen space rock slamming into our planet and wreaking havoc on an unimaginable scale, your nightmare scenario…
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A Distant Galaxy Is Starving To Death, And Astronomers Are Loving It
As NASA and other space agencies from around the world set their sights on exoplanets and destinations within our Solar System that could host life,…
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NASA Has A Plan For Preventing Asteroid Strikes, And It's Going To Test It
The threat of an asteroid striking Earth is pretty scary — and not just in all the ways Hollywood movies have depicted — but human…
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Japan Wants To Put A Man On The Moon By 2030
With NASA's focus on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and as many exoplanets as it can spot, it's easy to forget that our closest neighbor — the…
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Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Might Not Actually Exist After All
Skywatchers have been theorizing and dreaming about a mysterious unknown planet hanging out at the edge of our Solar System for many years. Sifting through…
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An Asteroid Is Definitely Going To Hit The Earth, Expert Warns
Space is a dangerous place to be, and since the Earth is in space, every living thing on the planet is at risk of eventually…
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Stephen Hawking Wants Humanity To Leave Earth As Soon As Possible
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been extremely vocal in recent months about his feelings that humanity needs to get off of Earth as soon as…
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NASA Just Found 10 New Earth-Like Planets
NASA's Kepler space telescope has been floating in space since early 2009, and it's already outlived its planned mission window by a handful of years,…
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NASA Wants To Probe Uranus In Search Of Gas
We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that's because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on…
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