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New analysis of 'moonquakes' indicates the moon isn't dead
We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity died out billions of years ago. Even the youngest lunar lava is old enough to have become scarred by numerous impact craters that have been collected over the ...
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Here's how we can change the Earth's orbit to escape the expanding sun
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s ...
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Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid heading for Earth, blow it up – and save humanity. Armageddon ...
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How did the moon end up where it is?
Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on the Earth’s satellite. This year alone, China has landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the moon, while India is close to landing a lunar vehicle, and ...
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NASA head warns: Expect a major asteroid impact in your lifetime
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine thinks it’s time to start taking the threat of an Earth-altering asteroid impact seriously. ...
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The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
When I was twelve years old, I became obsessed with a screen saver. The screen saver pictured above, to be precise; you can watch its full glory here. It had multicolored lines that rose up inside a frame, like a kind of three-dimensional bar graph, and a whole lot of incomprehensible ...
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Here's why the crashed Israeli moon mission was still a tremendous contribution to science
It came so close. It even took a selfie. But with only a few kilometers left to descend, something went wrong and the spacecraft ...
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First black hole photo confirms Einstein's theory of relativity
Black holes are long-time superstars of science fiction. But their Hollywood fame is a little strange given that no-one has ...
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NASA is paying SpaceX $69M to crash a rocket into an asteroid
NASA today awarded SpaceX a $69 million contract to redirect an asteroid off its intended path. The mission, called the ...
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The internet's idiots are already trying to discredit Katie Bouman’s historic accomplishments
People online have pointed out how Bouman wasn’t the only one on the team or the only author of the research papers so ...
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Here's why Israel's first moon landing ended in an awesome crash
Israel's first attempt at landing an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon today ended in a hard landing after an engine failure ...
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Scientists discover evidence of giant planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter
A team of Brazilian astronomers recently determined a giant exoplanet, over thirteen times more massive than Jupiter, is ...
