After a two year stand down, an upgraded commercial Antares rocket was rolled out to the NASA Wallops launch pad on Virginia's eastern shore and raised to its launch position today in anticipation of a spectacular Sunday night liftoff, Oct. 16, to the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical resupply mission for NASA.
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New photos taken by the Mars Express probe reveal evidence of buried glaciers in a region that separates the planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands.
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New research from a team of UK scientists shows how the early Universe had 10 times more galaxies than previously thought!
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A new study by a team of researchers has shed further light on J1407b, a distant exoplanet that is believed to have a ring system 100 times as big as Saturn's
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Fraser gives 5 answers to the question, "why should we explore space when we have so many problems here on Earth?"
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Ready for some lunar action of proxigean proportions? This weekend's Full Moon ushers in that most (infamous?) of internet ready cultural memes: that of the Supermoon. This moniker stands above the Blood, Mini, and Full Moons both Black and Blue as the Full Moon of the year that folks can't seem to get enough of, and astronomers love to hate.
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The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days) exploring the Red Planet !! That's 50 times beyond her "warrantied" life expectancy of merely 90 Sols.
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Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is the farthest object from our Sun to date.
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Contrary to what we previously though, Proxima Centauri has some striking similarities to our Sun, which includes a solar cycle
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President Obama has always been a strong supporter of science, and now he has reaffirmed his support for a mission to Mars.
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SpaceX's key launch facilities on the Florida Space Coast escaped the wrath of Hurricane Matthew's 100 mph wind gusts late last week, suffering only some exterior damage to the satellite processing building, a company spokesman confirmed to Universe Today.
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A new study takes a look at observational evidence obtained about Venus during its 2012 transit of the Sun, which shows unexpected x-rays coming from the planet
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You know what's scarier than a supernova? A supernova that fails, imploding into a black hole, vanishing from the Universe.
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On October 4th, 1957, history was forever changed with the Soviet launch of Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite to be launched into orbit
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Next month's launch of GOES-R - a new and advanced transformational weather satellite that will vastly enhance the quality, speed and accuracy of weather forecasting - will likely be delayed a few days due to lingering storm related effects of deadly Hurricane Matthew on launch preparations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Universe Today confirmed with launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA).
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The Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) and the major population centers along the Florida Space Coast were spared from major damage to infrastructure, homes and business after the deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Matthew grazed the region with 107 mph winds rather than making a direct impact as feared.
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New research suggests that Proxima b could be a lot more watery than we suspect, with roughly half the planet's mass made up of water
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The imminent impact of the already deadly Category 4 Hurricane Matthew along the Florida Space Coast tonight, Thursday, October 6, has forced the closure of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and mass evacuations along the US East coast from Florida, to Georgia to the Carolinas.
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Galaxies have a natural life cycle, which began shortly after the Big Bang and will likely continue for several trillion years.
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A NASA researcher thinks he has figured out how to predict global dust storms on Mars.
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Despite the vagaries of international law, no matter what a slick business person tells you, there is no land for sale on the Moon. NONE!
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As you know, I'm obsessed about the Fermi Paradox. Where are all the aliens? But an even stranger question is: where are all the robot aliens?
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Check out my new book "Night Sky with the Naked Eye" that explores all the wonderful things you can see in the heavens without any special equipment.
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The first Antares rocket liftoff in nearly two years is now being targeted for Oct. 13 on what is sure to be a dazzling nighttime leap from NASA's Virginia launch base - and potentially offering a thrilling skyshow to millions of US East Coast spectators, if all goes well.
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Before the historic Apollo-11 mission sent the first astronauts to the Moon, several robotic missions were mounted to the lunar surface as well.
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Discovered in the late 18th century, Cepheid Variable stars have become an important tool for measuring the size of the Universe.
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Missing Jove? The largest planet in our is currently on the far side of the Sun, and just passed solar conjunction on September 26th, 2016. October now sees Jupiter slowly return to the dawn sky. Follow that gas giant, as an interesting set of double shadow transits transpires in late October leading in to early November.
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The first of the massive fuel tanks that will fly on the maiden launch of NASA's SLS mega rocket in late 2018 has completed welding at the agency's rocket manufacturing facility in New Orleans - marking a giant step forward for NASA's goal of sending astronauts on a 'Journey to Mars' in the 2030s.
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The Schiaparelli lander will attempt it's landing on Mars in 15 days. Will it succeed, or join the long list of failed Martian landing attempts?
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In the wake of the explosion that destroyed SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in September, investigators are looking into possibilities other than a simple technical failure
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Black holes are the most impressive objects in the Universe, but when happens when they crash into each other is absolutely mind-bending. They distort space and time itself, sending ripples out into the Universe.
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There's been plenty of talk about crewed missions to Mars happening in the next few decades. So when exactly will humans set foot on Mars?
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Located in the direction of Sagittarius, approximately 10,000 light years from Earth, is the beautiful Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (aka. Messier 24)
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Developed near the turn of the century, CubeSat technology has made space exploration and orbital research a lot more accessible.
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In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide. Known as a galactic merger, this process is actually quite common in our Universe.
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During the early Space Race, both the American and Soviet space programs conducted tests flights using animals. In the Soviet's case, this include the famous "space dogs".
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