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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 ...
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Why the world is unhappy with India's anti-satellite missile test
India successfully launched an anti-satellite missile last month. What does this spell for its reputation as a major space ...
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Gravity influences decision-making more than we can understand
Returning to Earth from the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield remarked how making the right ...
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Why it’s so hard to detect dangerous asteroids before they hit Earth
Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of kilometers above our heads. But occasionally, something larger gets through. That’s what happened off Russia’s east coast on December 18 last year. A giant explosion occurred ...
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NASA doesn’t have enough spacesuits for the first all-women spacewalk — so they canceled it
Yesterday, NASA announced that it doesn't have enough spacesuits for the first all-women spacewalk which was scheduled to ...
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Space is being branded as a luxury product for the ultra-rich
What does it mean to be nostalgic for outer space? Outer space supposedly summons images of the future and the beyond, hence its blatantly colonial fantasy nickname — the final frontier. Yet proposed travel to outer space these days is a backward-looking endeavor. The angel ...
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Asteroid-powered volcanoes killed the dinosaurs, scientists say
It’s almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earthnear modern-dayMexico. That was it, or so we thought.A paper published today in Science further supports an alternative hypothesis: that catastrophic events following the impact ...
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Here's what the weather looks like on Uranus and Neptune
The outer region of the solar system may be the least explored, but scientists have managed to unravel several of its mysteries ...
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Why Japan’s mission to bring space rocks to Earth is so incredible
A spacecraft launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2014 successfully touched down on a speeding ...
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Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon
It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...
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India gears up for crewed space missions with its new Human Space Flight Center
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said last Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre in the ...
