Buzz Aldrin - the second man to walk on the Moon - is recovering nicely today in a New Zealand hospital after an emergency medical evacuation cut short his record setting Antarctic expedition as the oldest man to reach the South Pole - which Team Buzz lightheartly noted would make him "insufferable" !
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The ESO has released spectral data obtained by the Very Large Telescope, which studied a distant qausar to determine how electromagnetism works.
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Only three months after the catastrophic launch pad explosion of their commercial Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, SpaceX has set Dec. 16 as the date for the boosters 'Return to Flight' launch from California with the first batch of Iridium's next-generation communications satellites.
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The weather on Venus is incredibly hostile, characterized by extreme temperatures, acid rain, lightning storms and powerful winds.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - An unmanned Russian Progress resupply ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) was lost shortly after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday when its Soyuz booster suffered a catastrophic anomaly in the third stage, and the craft and its contents were totally destroyed.
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The Asteroid Belt, which rests between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, orbits our Sun at a distance of 3.2 to 4.2 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun
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In the northern sky, bordered by Ursa Major and Boötes, lies the small constellation of Canes Venatici, one of the 88 constellations recognized by the IAU.
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According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, all matter is composed is hadrons (which are made up of elementary particles) and leptons, which are elementary particles themselves.
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Sky Canvas plans to launch a colorful artificial meteor shower barrage via micro-satellite.
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space, blazing a trail for all the female astronauts and cosmonauts who have since followed.
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Not all stars are alone. Some come in pairs and more. And when there are multiple stars in a system, watch the cosmic sparks fly.
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A new study released by the Radiological Society of North America has determined why astronauts who take part in long-duration missions experience problems with their eyesight.
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Radar mapping of San Francisco's Bay Area has verified the slow sinking of a luxury skyscraper.
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For decades, astronomers have believed that a supermassive black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. And ongoing research has shown that it is not alone!
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Located in the direction of the Sagittarius Constellation, roughly17,900 light-years from Earth, lies the globular cluster known as Messier 28.
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Using the same kind of light and detection ranging (lidar) technology as the OSIRIS-REx missions, archaeologists are uncovering secrets of Earth's distant past.
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After months of research, the IAUs Working Group on Star Names has released a catalog that restored the assigned traditional names to 227 stars
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The Cydonia region of Mars has been the subject of scientific and popular curiosity for decades, thanks mainly to its famous "Face of Mars".
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Investigators have made progress into determining the cause of the Schiaparelli accident, which appears to be due to a temporary error with one of the on-board instruments.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The fire and fury of the mighty Atlas V got the gorgeous NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather observatory to geostationary orbit just days ago - as a 'Thanksgiving' present to all the people of Earth through the combined efforts of the government/industry/university science and engineering teams of hard working folks who made it possible.
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We've been so busy wondering how we'll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we'll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media? Who's responsible to craft a response?
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Located beneath the border between France and Switzerland is the CERN Particle Accelerator, the largest instrument of its kind in the world.
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Jupiter's largest moons - aka. the Galilean Moons - could one day be colonized, providing humanity with limitless resources and incredible opportunities for research.
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The slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface temperature between 1998 and 2013 wasn't a slowdown at all. The oceans have warmed instead.
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You know what would be exciting? Finding life on Mars. What is the best evidence we've seen for life on the Red Planet?
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Upon departing the ISS after a month-long stay, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 mission began conducting a controlled fire experiment... in space!
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Located approximately 1,360 light years from Earth in the direction of the Vulpecula constellation, the Dumbbell Nebula is a beautiful thing to behold!
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According to a recent speech given by Hawking at the Oxford Union, humanity has 1000 years to become interplanetary, or face extinction
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Due to the lack of a magnetosphere and its very thin atmosphere, the surface of Mars is exposed to a lot more radiation than planet Earth.
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Using data obtained by the Kepler mission, international team of astronomers have found the roundest object yet in the universe!
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - From both the technical and weather standpoint, the outlook is outstanding for Saturdays sunset blastoff of the NASA/NOAA GOES-R geostationary weather observation satellite that's set to deliver a 'quantum leap' in weather forecasting on Nov. 19.
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Rock formations at the Gusev Crater on Mars closely resemble formations at El Tatio in Chile, which were partly formed by living processes.
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In this epic, 2-part episode, we team up with Isaac Arthur to imagine how humans will colonize the inner Solar System, becoming a true spacefaring civilization.
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This episode continues our team up with Fraser Cain to look at Colonizing the Solar System, we move from the inner solar system to the Asteroid Belt and beyond, all the way out to the Oort Cloud.
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The idea of Moon mining has been around for decades, and is becoming more attractive thanks to the NewSpace industry and renewed lunar exploration
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Dark matter? Who needs it?! Gravity may be something else altogether.
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Almost a week after the election, NASA is still waiting to talk to Trump's transition team, making the future of the space agency seem uncertain
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - After an ironic detour due to Hurricane Matthew, liftoff of the game changing NASA/NOAA next generation GOES-R geostationary weather observation satellite offering a "dramatic leap in capability" is finally on track for this weekend on Nov. 19 from the Florida Space Coast.
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