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Urgent Launch Of Air Force Satellites Delays NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Flight Test
NASA’s next manned spacecraft — its first new model in 40 years — is called the Orion, or “Apollo on …
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Scientists Believe A Black Hole Just Launched A Star Cluster Toward Earth
Being able to report science news of the magnitude that we did earlier this week is incredible. Science geeks all …
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Scientists Think They’ve Spotted Waves In Titan’s Oceans
If you watched Sunday’s episode of Cosmos, you know that Tyson and the Spaceship of the Imagination headed to Titan, …
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We Now Have Direct Evidence Of The Big Bang And Cosmic Inflation
Yesterday, the internet was abuzz with rumors about today’s scheduled announcement from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Many people …
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NASA Tips Their Hat To Cosmos With A Gorgeous Space Gallery
While Cosmos may not have lived up to Fox’s ratings expectations, it was still a humbling primer on our vast, …
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SpaceX To Launch Missions for the U.S. Military
SpaceX seems to be taking the world—make that the universe—by storm. The private contractor hauls cargo to the ISS, and …
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage Shows Off His Gorgeous Mercury Spacesuit Replica
Adam Savage’s life is just frankly unfair. It’s bad enough that he gets paid to blow things up, put Hollywood’s …
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Is A Manned Mars Mission Suicide? According To A UAE Fatwa, Yes.
Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit that plans to send colonists on a one-way trip to Mars in 2024, narrowed down …
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Our Moon May Not Be Able To Have Its Own Mini-Moon, But A Meteorite Recently Exploded On The Lunar Surface
When you realize that planets like Saturn have 60 moons, and Jupiter has 63, you have to wonder whether moons …
ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission
NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …
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Dying Stars Slosh Around When They Go Supernova
As Carl Sagan always said, “We’re made of star-stuff.” That’s because dying stars explode, expelling stardust — which scientists now …
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Big Ol’ Asteroid Will Zoom Past Earth Tonight, And You Can Watch
Short of watching disaster flicks such as Deep Impact and Armageddon, how often do we get the chance to see …
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ISS Cold Atom Lab Will Be The Most Frigid Place In The Universe
The ISS has its share of haters. There are many people who believe the station is a colossal waste of …
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There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now
Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …
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SETI Predicts We’ll Find Intelligent Alien Life By 2040
Scientists like to debate theories about aliens — are they out there? Where? Which planets are most likely to harbor …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
Meet Dream Chaser, America’s Next Space Shuttle
As you probably know, President Obama announced his decision to end NASA’s space shuttle program Constellation back in 2010. Since …
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Why You Have NASA To Thank For The Super Bowl
In a few hours, an absurd number of people will watch the spectacle that is the Super Bowl. And they’ll …
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First-Person HD Footage Of Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump
Warning: Baumgartner goes into a violent spin around the 5:10 mark, so if you get motion sick easily you might …
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Cosmos Trailer Invites You To Share The Wonders Of Our Universe
Last Friday night, I was at a bar and a woman I’d never met before joined our group. A little …
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Chinese Moon Rover Yutu May Be In Trouble
China’s moon rover Yutu landed on the moon on December 14, 2013, making China the third country to land a …
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Happy Tenth Anniversary, Opportunity
Ten years might not seem old, but for a rover that was only meant to conduct a three-month-long mission, a …
Finding Water In Stardust Has Exciting Implications For Life Elsewhere In The Universe
Carl Sagan enjoyed talking about “star stuff” and reminding us that we—and everything else in the cosmos—is made of it. …
ESA’s Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Rosetta Scheduled To Wake Up Today
Is 31 months enough sleep for a spacecraft? Or might it be too much? The Chinese Yutu rover recently woke …
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Ring Of Dust Around A Star May Be Forming New Planets
Star HD 142527 probably struggles to find maternity clothes in its size. A team of scientists from Japan’s Osaka University …
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Harvard Professor Turns The Sound Of A Supernova Into Song
While we might think of space as a vast and silent expanse, that’s not necessarily true. Space has plenty of …
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NASA’s Only A Year Away From Pluto
Pluto may not be a full-fledged planet anymore, but that doesn’t mean we’re not interested in checking it out, even …
China’s Moon Rover Delivers More Stunning Photos From The Lunar Surface
In mid-December, China became the third country to land a craft on the moon. But given the holidays and the …
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two Makes Third (And Highest) Test Flight
The Virgin Galactic doubters are eating their words after their soon-to-be low-Earth orbit spaceship made its third successful test flight …
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New Space Suit Design Is Straight Out Of Sci-Fi
If you watched Gravity, or any other space flick, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that while spacesuits are pretty damn important, they’re …
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