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Newly discovered Moon metals make scientists rethink its origin story
How was the Moon formed? The most-widely-accepted theory suggests that billions of years ago, our young planet was struck by a body as large as Mars, forming the Moon. However, new observations of the levels of metals on our companion world suggest this origin story may need ...
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AI finds 250 foreign stars that migrated to our galaxy
Astronomers have used deep learning to discover 250 new stars in the Milky Way, which they believe were born outside the ...
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These are the 3 most likely scenarios for our first alien encounter
How we will find extraterrestrial life is just as important of a question as to when we will find the first alien life. Finding extraterrestrial life is not just a question of WHEN we will find the first life off the Earth, but HOW we will find it. We already know of more ...
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We won't reach other solar systems for a while — robots could visit them first
Many great movies and television shows, including the Lost in Space reboot, show various versions of interstellar travel. SpaceX and the new space race are making space geeks salivate at the thought. To those like myself who’ve cherished the idea since the debut of the Starship ...
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How aliens could use black holes to power an intergalactic civilization
Remember when I warned everyone that humans would probably destroy all life in the universe like construction workers killing ...
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A mysterious planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system
A mysterious planet — called Planet 9 or Planet X — may be hiding at the edge of our solar system. Will we ever find this world? Planet nine may be orbiting far from the Sun, at the edge of our solar system. Astronomers, seeing odd irregularities in the orbits of the outer ...
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Space exploration is expensive, but it's worth the price
I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. My great-grandfather was a slave in Claiborne, Alabama, who used primitive tools to work the land. My father was born in Alabama before the Wright brothers made ...
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Super-puff worlds: These Jupiter-sized planets are light as cotton candy
Astronomers once believed that most solar systems would be much like our own, with small rocky planets near their sun, accompanied by gas giants orbiting the star at greater distances. Beginning in 1992, researchers began to find worlds orbiting alien stars, and soon found solar systems ...
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The story of Ed Dwight: the man who nearly became the first African-American to reach space
Ed Dwight may not be remembered by many space aficionados, but he very nearly became a household name, spoken in the same ...
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The oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa may be habitable, according to NASA
A new study of the oceans of Europa suggest oceans on that giant moon may be habitable. But is there life? The oceans ...
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NASA enlists AI in the hunt for ET
The ExoMars mission to find life on Mars moved closer to take-off this week after NASA unveiled the first results of an ...
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Oceans on alien worlds are more common than you think, study reveals
Oceans on exoplanets may be more common than commonly believed, a new NASA study reveals. A new generation of telescopes, ...
