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NASA charged taxpayers $5M for SpaceX safety review after Elon Musk got high
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The rate of the universe’s expansion is in dispute – but a new kind of measurement offers hope
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How scientists detected water on a potentially habitable exoplanet for the first time
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NASA engineer says Viking missions discovered life on Mars in the 1970s
Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he's “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars ...
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Scientists are taking zero-gravity flights to understand the brain's function in space
More than 500 people have traveled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects ...
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How finding the first exoplanet changed our perception of the universe
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and ...
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Elon Musk's plans for Mars may be more moral catastrophe than bold space exploration
Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed ...
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This exoplanet challenges our understanding of planet formation
The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found ...
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Why migrating to another planet is a stupid and implausible idea
Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, whose work detecting exoplanets recently earned him a share in the Nobel prize for physics, ...
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Scientists are looking for dark matter to understand the universe’s ‘hidden web’
After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, clusters of galaxies and ...
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Saturn declared most moonfluential planet after follower count reaches 82
A team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science recently announced the discovery of 20 new planets surrounding ...
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How Earth’s changing climate can benefit aspiring Mars colonizers
In a rare instance of environmental success, the United Nations has just announced it believes the damage to the Earth’s ...
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NASA finally has enough spacesuits for first ever all-woman spacewalk on October 21
In March, NASA had plans to conduct its first ever all-women spacewalk. But, it was canceled down to suit sizings. But it's ...
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NASA releases 3D Moon map for visual artists
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling around the moon for almost a decade now. During this course, ...
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The Mars Rover's SoundCloud is lit
Straight outta' Mars, NASA released a mixtape on SoundCloud earlier this week featuring tracks recorded on the red planet ...
