Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects exist and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. In mathematics, "spaces" are examined with different numbers of dimensions and with different underlying structures.
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AI to help world's first removal of space debris
The European Space Agency will soon use deep learning algorithms to help clean up the junk orbiting earth.
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Here's why scientists think women are better suited to space travel
Are women better astronauts than men? This question will become central to the selection of crews to the Moon, Mars, ...
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Countries won't sign this Moon exploration agreement because it's too ‘US-centric’
Eight countries have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of guidelines surrounding the Artemis Program for crewed exploration ...
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Why the moon’s early magnetic field might be responsible for life on earth
The habitability of a planet depends on many factors. One is the existence of a strong and long-lived magnetic field. These ...
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Mars hasn't been this close to Earth in 15 years — here's how to spot it
Finding Mars is easy this week, as it shines brightly in the eastern sky, offering observers a chance to see a stunning view ...
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NASA releases images of the first craters on Mars discovered by AI
The AI tool spotted a cluster of craters that were created when a meteor shattered over Mars earlier this decade.
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The Moon's surface is rusting — and Earth may be to blame
Dust on the Moon discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft orbiting our planetary companion suggests complex interactions ...
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Space telescopes are great — so why do we still build ground-based ones?
At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) ...
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New study suggests we all might be children of alien organisms
Panspermia means “seeds everywhere,” and the concept represents the idea that life on Earth may have been seeded by biological ...
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In space, bacteria is even more deadly and resilient to antibiotics
China recently launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the ...
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How interplanetary migration could impact human evolution
The future of human evolution in space will be driven by challenges both similar — and different — to those that ...
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The dangers SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will face during its return to Earth
The Crew Dragon spacecraft, produced by private company SpaceX, is scheduled to return from the International Space Station ...
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This new cosmological map shines some light on dark energy
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, ...
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Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water
The origin of water on Earth has long been a contested question — water forms in the course of many chemical reactions, ...
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Astronomers discover an exposed exoplanet core 730 light-years from Earth
A newly discovered exoplanet — TOI 849 b — located 730 light-years from Earth offers astronomers a unique opportunity ...
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From floating guts to 'sticky' blood — here's how to do surgery in space
Earlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening blood clot in ...
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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 ...
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The importance of the space industry in a post-pandemic world
With all of the immense challenges we face on Earth this year, space can feel like an afterthought. Before the COVID-19 ...
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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. ...
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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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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, ...
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A mysterious space signal has been going for over 500 days — and no one knows why
A source of repeating radio waves seen from one point in the sky presents astronomers with numerous mysteries. The ...
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Life inside Pluto: hot birth may have created internal ocean on dwarf planet
Pluto, along with many other dwarf planets in the outer solar system, is often thought of as dark, icy and barren – with ...
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Outer space is a sausage fest — but that's set to change
Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed ...
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Space tourism is coming — but the risks are still unknown
On May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International ...
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Corporations controlling territory in space? New US rules say ‘YES PLEASE’
NASA recently launched US astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in a decade, in a rocket designed ...
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Scientist says we haven't found ET yet because we're doomed to destroy all life
A group of physicists working on the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos Research Laboratory in 1950 were having a discussion ...
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How 'microgravity' changes the bodies of astronauts
Being an astronaut looks like an exciting and glamorous career. But have you ever thought about the dangers that these ...
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Scientists built an AI to discover new stars in the quest to explain our galaxy's origin
Researchers have used AI system to spot thousands of new stars that could hold clues about the formation of the galaxy
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How cosmologists finally found the 'missing' half of our universe’s matter
In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, ...
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SpaceX and NASA's crewed mission postponed until the weekend due to bad weather
Last night, SpaceX aimed to ink its name in history books as it was preparing to launch NASA Astronauts in space. However, ...
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Space is full of junk because private companies keep launching satellites
Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the lower orbit around the Earth has become an increasingly congested environment ...
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Why nuclear-powered rockets could be the answer to safer space exploration
With dreams of Mars on the minds of both NASA and Elon Musk, long-distance crewed missions through space are coming. But ...
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Should the moon be privatized? The US says yes
Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic ...
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An astronaut's guide to taking care of yourself during lockdown
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose my mind. Social distancing prevents you from having a normal life, ...
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An astronaut got a blood clot in space — here's how it helped science
You are locked inside and are encouraged to do one hour of physical exercise per day. You are isolated from the people you ...
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How to take better naps, according to astronauts
Sleeping is one of the best things in life. For most people, it is a time for relaxation, forgetting about problems, and ...
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How extreme temperatures can turn exoplanets into bizarre planet-star hybrids
A new mathematical model predicts some exoplanets are hotter than thought, creating strange alien worlds that are half planet ...
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos compete to help NASA return humans to the moon
NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to help its Artemis project return humans to the ...
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5 facts about the Apollo 13 movie — and how they actually happened in real life
On April 17 of 1970, the World held its breath when astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, launched themselves ...
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3 ways to maximize your work station at home
Work from home? Maximizing your work station is easier than it sounds. Here are three ways to make the most out of your screen, ...
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We might need to launch sex bots into space to keep astronauts 'company'
The 2018 movie A.I. Rising explores how machines could fulfill desires and support humans during space travel. Lo and behold, ...
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Stuck at home? Here are our favorite internet radio stations from all over the world
Most of us are stuck inside right now, and for very good reason. Before I start complaining about how the ubiquity of sourdough ...
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Research: Moon colonies could be (partially) built with human urine
Colonies on the Moon or Mars could, one day, be manufactured — in part — from using human urine. The waste we flush ...
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Trump calls dibs on outer space with his latest executive order
Donald Trump's latest executive order comes straight out of science fiction: He's officially called dibs on outer space. ...
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Supermassive black holes: How did they grow so fast?
Whilst astronomers are fairly certain that supermassive black holes, billions of times more massive than our Sun, dwell ...
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The future of black hole images is bright
This month marks the first anniversary of the image of the environment directly surrounding the black hole at the center ...
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Hubble telescope discovers Galaxy-ripping quasar tsunamis in space
Quasar tsunamis discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope erupt in the most energetic outflows of material ...
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Bezos and Musk's internet-from-space race is back on
OneWeb, the satellite startup once pegged as the leader in the race to beam high-speed internet from space, has filed for ...
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What will we do when diseases reach space?
In an effort to mitigate damage from COVID-19 here on Earth, people worldwide are practicing social distancing, attempting ...
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Comet Atlas could be the brightest comet in decades
Comet Atlas is racing toward the inner solar system, and it could become the brightest comet seen in the night sky in over ...
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Mercury’s extremely hot temperatures might help ice form on its surface
Ice on Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may seem impossible. But, could scorching temperatures on that world ...
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Explore space using these free tools while you're stuck at home
The World Health Organization (WHO) has prescribed social distancing to reduce the effect of coronavirus. So, more and more ...
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5 tips on how to survive as a remote worker
Working remotely, although convenient, can be lonely. With this in mind, here are five tips to help you survive as a remote ...
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The story of Katherine Johnson, the scientist who helped NASA send humans to space
Katherine Johnson, who has died at the age of 101, was an amazing woman. But up until a few years ago, hardly anyone had ...
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Scientists say supermassive black hole once belched a crater into a nearby galaxy
We've seen what happens when stars go supernova and suns explode but scientists believe the biggest explosion in the history ...
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If a Japanese billionaire farted in front of you, what would you say?
This Japanese millionaire is in search of a girlfriend to accompany him on his trip to the moon. But applicants have one ...
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Virgin Galactic keeps bleeding cash — but says demand for spaceflights has doubled
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic's stock has more-than tripled in value this year, despite the company having no legit means ...
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3 things startups need to consider before buying insurance
Startups can be among the riskiest businesses to insure. That’s because they operate in new markets and often with untested ...
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Strange signals coming from space every 16 days are puzzling scientists
An odd radio signal is coming from space, starting and stopping in regular 16-day cycles. A team of Canadian astronomers ...
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I’m the CEO and I sit in the middle of the office — here’s why
People shouldn’t have to come seek me out, or to schedule time with me, if they want to get my eyes on something, or thoughts ...
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Christina Koch returns to Earth after breaking record for longest spaceflight by a woman
After spending 328 days in space, astronaut Christina Koch returned back to Earth yesterday after completing the longest ...
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Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of
A multi-university team of researchers from Japan recently used the world's fastest astrophysics-simulation supercomputers ...
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Dark matter could help us understand the origins of gamma radiation
Afaint glow of gamma radiation — the unresolved gamma-ray background — fills the sky. This energy is not evenly ...
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Elon Musk: SpaceX will send NASA astronauts to space in Q2
Elon Musk said last night that SpaceX plans to send NASA astronauts to space between April and June. The mission, dubbed ...
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How to protect users from harassment in social VR spaces
For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual ...
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Building a moon base is a huge task — but these tiny satellites will pave the way
The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. ...
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Elon Musk becomes the International Space Station's weed guy in March
SpaceX has reportedly been tapped by a company called Front Range Biosciences to smuggle some drugs from Earth to the International ...
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[Best of 2019] Meet Alyssa Carson, the 18-year-old training to become the first human on Mars
At three years old, Alyssa Carson knew she wanted to be an astronaut. She’s worked tirelessly and could soon become the ...
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[Best of 2019] 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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The ESA wants to put humans in hibernation for long-term space travel
The European Space Agency is currently exploring human hibernation as a means of addressing the problem of sending humans ...
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CHEAP: Game 'til you drop with 20% off Samsung's 970 EVO Plus 2TB SSD
If you're in the market for a speedy SSD, you should know there's $100 discount on arguably the best alternative in the game ...
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The Outer World will satiate your need for character-driven RPG experience
This article was originally published by Super Jump Magazine, an independent publication all about celebrating ...
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How to see the brightest constellations in your own backyard
The dark skies of the great outdoors help people to see the wonders of space, either with the naked eye or using telescopes. ...
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CHEAP: Forget the Samsung T5, get this beefy 1TB Intel SSD for just $92
With games like "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" taking tons of space, it's good that there are cheap storage options like ...
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Private Chinese space company aims to rival SpaceX with a reusable rocket by 2021
i-Space, a Bejing-based space company, showed off its reusable rocket, Hyperbola-2, for the first time in public last week. ...
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NATO’s going to call space a war zone, but don’t worry there won’t be any fighting
At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain,” partly in response ...
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With shit-all else to do, Fortnite goes on vacation (Update: It's back)
Fortnite has hit the mother of all reset buttons by destroying its map with a black hole. Now its players are left with not ...
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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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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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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 ...
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CHEAP: Forget about the cloud, get this 2TB Hitachi drive for $30
Is your phone and laptop storage filled to the brim? Well, you're in luck: eBay's got a killer discount on the Hitachi Ultrastar ...
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Elon Musk's plan for sending people to Mars is probably a suicide mission
Elon Musk is a Cancer. If he'd been born a week earlier, on June 21st instead of June 28th, he'd be a Gemini. And that ...
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New physics research boldly indicates 'warp drives' may be possible
Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we'll ...
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Elon Musk wants SpaceX's crewed Starship to reach orbit in 6 months
Last Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company’s ambitious Starship spacecraft - designed to (eventually) take humans ...
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Yes, there will be macaroni and cheese on Mars
A team of scientists at Washington State University have developed a unique packaging method that effectively triples the ...
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Scientists came up with a reasonable plan to build an elevator to the Moon
It's not quite a “Stairway to Heaven,” but scientists have come up with what appears to be a perfectly feasible plan ...
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This thought experiment explains how quantum computers can time travel
You know how sometimes you find yourself facing off against an enemy spaceship in a Wild West-inspired laser duel where whoever ...
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Study: Either the Hubble Constant is wrong or the universe is ripping itself apart
The science community has a crisis on its hands. Some anarchist physicists recently started kicking the tires on the Standard ...
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NASA astronaut accused of first-ever space crime denies allegations
NASA is looking into a claim that astronaut Anne McClain improperly accessessed the bank account of her estranged spouse ...
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CHEAP: A 1TB SanDisk portable SSD for $166 (47% off)? Bag that shit up
What a juicy deal: store your troubles away with this massive 47-percent discount on SanDisk's 1TB Extreme Portable SSD for ...
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Scientists think light and noise from Earth could attract aliens
Since the first use of electric lamps in the 19th century, society hasn’t looked back. Homes and streets are lit at all ...
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Scientists ask NASA to reconsider Mars mission after studying effects of space radiation
A team of scientists recently conducted a first-of-its-kind experiment to study the effects of space radiation on a living ...
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Here's what we need to build our first moon base
Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent ...
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Five reasons future space travel should explore asteroids
Asteroids provide a direct connection between the Earth and interplanetary space. Craters such as the Barringer Crater in ...
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40 years later, astronomers revisit the pulsar from ‘Unknown Pleasures'
The English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album “Unknown Pleasures” 40 years ago. The front cover ...
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This thread about peeing in space is the best thing on Twitter today
It’s not often I’m glued to my screen while someone talks about the intricacies of urination. Twitter, for all its ...
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We've surrounded the Earth with surveillance satellites, but who is that good for?
It was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they ...
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This women-led space program is crowdfunding Kyrgyzstan’s first satellite launch
The female-led Kyrgyz Space Program is crowdfunding for their country's first satellite launch through Patreon. The team ...
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Warframe wants to send a player to space (rocket not included)
Warframe dev Digital Extremes is running a contest to send someone to space -- except it won't be arranging the trip for ...
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The first AI capable of simulating the universe works so well it's scary
A team of researchers recently pioneered the world's first AI universe simulator. It's fast; it's accurate; and its creators ...
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India will build its own space station in the next decade
(ISRO) announced its ambitious plan to put up a space station in the next decade. The space agency’s chief said launch ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How nano satellites can help make businesses sustainable
Speaking at TNW 2019 conference in Amsterdam today, Juha-Matti (Jussi) Liukkonen, Director of Space & New Technologies ...
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Lawyers are trying to figure out who to sue in the event of an asteroid impact
If you or a family member were struck by an asteroid, you may be entitled to compensation. Call the law offices of Jones, ...
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Here's why privately-owned cities are a terrible idea
Over the last five years, something strange has happened at the eastern edge of Karachi, the crowded megalopolis in southern ...
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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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Game developers help NASA imagine what life in space will look like
NASA spent much of the 20th century commissioning painters and illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. When ...
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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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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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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 ...
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The Oros Orion Parka uses NASA-inspired aerogel to keep you warm without the bulk
I do not like the cold. I grew up on a tropical island, and though I appreciate the beauty of the first snow and winter festivities ...
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In space, this is the age of reusability
Big plans are being made in space. Investment banks want to mine asteroids for rare, valuable metals, Japan wants to build ...
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India's space agency is aiming to create world's first rocket with two reusable stages
ISRO – India's space agency is aiming to develop world's first two-stage reusable rocket before SpaceX to set a historical ...
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A cotton seed sprouted - and died - on China's Lunar Lander
On Tuesday, Chinese media reported that one of the cotton seeds aboard the Chang’e 4 lunar lander sprouted, marking the ...
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China's moon landing could launch a new space race
China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on January 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do ...
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How a group of students discovered the sounds of solar storms
The students discovered a loud crunching noise followed by a series of whistling sounds whose pitch decreased. This event ...
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Study: Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity – repelling all other material ...
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Here's why NASA is sending worms to space
We are hoping the worms can help us uncover more about muscle loss in astronauts during spaceflight since they can lose up ...
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NASA sends spacecraft to meet asteroid on collision-course with Earth
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the ...
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Don't believe the hype: There's nothing wrong with the space station robot
Reports of belligerent AI with a mind of its own terrorizing astronauts aboard the International Space Station aren't exactly ...
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5 crucial lessons learned from 2 years of building TNW’s tech hub
Two years ago, we opened the doors to TQ — TNW’s first tech hub in the center of Amsterdam. At the time, I was organizing ...
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The new space race is all about satellites: Pros and cons of each orbit
For most people, satellites probably bring to mind things like weather forecasts, GPS, or satellite TV broadcasting. Other ...
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Open floor plans should be killed with fire — or sound
Research shows that because noise pollution is so bad in open floor plans, it causes productivity to drop by 20 percent.
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This Day In Deals: A pet tracker to stop the French firing your cat into space
This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. ...
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Trick people into thinking you're smart with this guide to gravitational waves
Scientists working at the LIGO experiment in the US have for the first time detected elusive ripples in the space and time ...
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New study shows World War II bombings in Europe reached space
The bombing campaigns of World War Two left an indelible mark on the world’s towns and cities and in the memories of the ...
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NASA is developing AI to give directions in space
Before we all join Space Force and go invade Mars we're going to have to figure out how to build bases and navigate in space. ...
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Researchers believe Earth constantly attracts mini-moons
Goodnight Moon, goodnight other moon, goodnight other moon, goodnight other moon. It turns out we may have a lot of moons ...
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VP Mike Pence unveils detailed plans for Space Force
VP Mike Pence today revealed more info about the Space Force, including what steps we'll need to take even if Congress approves ...
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A Japanese startup has ambitious plans for on-demand meteor showers
A Tokyo-based startup is hard at work developing a system that would deliver "shooting stars on demand." According to a report ...
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Jeff Bezos plans to charge upwards of $300,000 for a ticket to space
Jeff Bezos really wants to make space tourism a thing. According to a report by Reuters, the Amazon CEO's rocket company, ...
