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Elon Musk Wants Giant SpaceX Spaceship to Fly People to Mars by 2024
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SpaceX aims to launch its first cargo mission to Mars in 2022 and send people toward the Red Planet just two years after that. Those are just two of the highlights of the company's current...
NASA Delays Launch of $8.8 Billion James Webb Space Telescope to 2019
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Artist's illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope won't get off the ground next year after all. NASA has...
Gravitational Waves Detected by 2 Observatories After Black Holes Collide
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An artist's depiction of two merging black holes. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) Gravitational-wave hunters have a new tool in their arsenal. The Virgo...
Eating Habits of Supermassive Black Holes May Define Galaxies
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New work suggests that the dark, donut-shaped clouds of gas and dust shrouding the black holes at the center of galaxies may not be the only feature responsible for the difference in the...
SpaceX's Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin Announcing Updated Mars Plans Tonight
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This iframe is not allowed Tonight (Sept. 28), SpaceX and Lockheed Martin will unveil their latest plans for getting people to Mars. Both companies will do so at the...
Grave of Europe's 1st Moon Orbiter Finally Found
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Discovery of SMART-1 impact site on high resolution Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images. The field is 50 metres wide (north is up). SMART-1 touched down from north to south at a grazing...
Scorching-Hot Mercury Has a Surprisingly Icy North Pole
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1. The pockmarked terrain of Mercury’s north pole harbors much more ice than scientists had expected. Credit: Head lab/ Brown University Mercury has much more ice scattered across its...
Ancient Lake On Mars Was Hospitable Enough To Support Life
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An illustration showing how the lake in the crater might have looked. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS An up-close view of Mars' rocky deposits by NASA's Curiosity...
Crescent Enceladus: Icy Saturn Moon Shines in Cassini Photo
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this shot of the Saturn moon Enceladus on March 29, 2017, from a distance of about 110,000 miles (180,000 kilometers). Image scale is 0.6 miles (1 km)...
Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts May Flash Every Second
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This artist's illustration shows part of the cosmic web, a filamentary structure of galaxies that extends across the entire sky. The bright-blue point sources shown here are the signals...
Cosmic Kittens: Saturn Features Get Feline Names
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Cassini scientists have nicknamed features of Saturn after cats. Credit: Space.com; Mattias Malmer/NASA If you know anything about Saturn, you probably know that it's a planet surrounded...
NFL Superstar Tom Brady Says Drinking A Lot Of Water Can Prevent Sunburn
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NFL quarterback Tom Brady suggested that water prevented sunburn in a book he released Tuesday and the internet dragged him for it. In his new book "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of...
Look Up and Wave! OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Probe Flies by Earth Today
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MORE Artist's impression of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passing by Earth. The probe will map and study the asteroid Bennu before bringing a sample home. Credit:...
2 Monster Black Holes Spotted at Galaxy's Heart
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Not one but two gigantic black holes lurk at the heart of the distant spiral galaxy NGC 7674, a new study suggests. These two supermassive black holes are separated by less than 1...
Glowing Red Eye: Cosmic Bubble Surrounds Odd 'Carbon Star'
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Gorgeous new imagery shows the enormous, glowing bubble that a strange, dying red star has blown around itself. The huge star, known as U Antliae, lies about 900 light-years from Earth, in...
New Horizons Probe Wakes from 5-Month Slumber
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is zooming through the outer solar system with its eyes open once again. New Horizons woke from a five-month hibernation period — its first stretch of rest since...
Asteroid Odd Couple: Spitting Space-Rock Duo Is Truly Bizarre
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In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have discovered a pair of space rocks, collectively called 288P, that don't behave like anything previously observed in that region. The...
Earthquake measuring 3.8 recorded in southern Illinois felt more than 100 miles away
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Location of the Albion, IL earthquake. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A small earthquake recorded early Tuesday in Illinois was felt more than 100 miles away. The U....
A rare new Pliensbachian plesiosaurian from the Amaltheenton Formation of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany
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S achs , S. & K ear , B.P. Month, 20XX. A rare new Pliensbachian plesiosaurian from the Amaltheenton Formation of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany. Alcheringa XX, XXX–XXX. ISSN...
I see this article online. LOL. It's true?
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In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang had been visiting around the Shandong Peninsula, where he has been lingering for three months, where he heard in the Bohai Bay there are three mountains, called Penglai,...
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
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Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability PHYS.ORG, Provided by: Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 5, 2017 A selfie of the NASA Curiosity rover at the...
1 Week Until Cassini's Fatal Saturn Dive: Here's How the Probe Will Spend Its Final Days
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The one-week countdown has begun for the Cassini spacecraft's fatal dive into Saturn's atmosphere. On Sept. 15, Cassini will dive straight into Saturn, collecting in-situ data from the...
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