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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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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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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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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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…
Read MoreSpaceX, 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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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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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…
Read MoreWhen 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The threat of an asteroid striking Earth is pretty scary — and not just in all the ways Hollywood movies have depicted — but human…
Read MoreWith 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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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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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…
Read MoreRenowned 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'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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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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If there's one thing you can definitively say about Elon Musk it's that most certainly does not lack ambition. The boss of SpaceX, Tesla, and…
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Jupiter is one of the most interesting places in the Solar System for a number of reasons. It's massive ball of gas, covered in rolling…
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Thus far, NASA has landed a total of four rovers on Mars, and while the conversation surrounding sending humans to the red planet is a…
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Today, NASA will reveal its newest astronauts by formally introducing the 2017 astronaut class, and you can watch it happen live. The event, which will…
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The idea that we might be living in just one of an infinite number of universes has been fodder for scientific debate and sci-fi movie…
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