The Sun causes the destruction of asteroids at a much greater distance than previously thought.
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The Antlia constellation. located in the southern hemisphere, is one of the more recently discovered members of the
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Nearing the final days of his history making one-year-long sojourn in orbit, space farming NASA astronaut Scott Kelly harvested the first ever crop of 'Space Zinnias' grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on a most appropriate day - Valentine's Day, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016.
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A Gamma Ray Burst detected from the same source as last week's gravitational waves requires a new understanding of the black holes involved. But was the GRB even real?
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For the first time in 25 years, a woman has won Canada's top science award. Dr. Victoria Kaspi is a pulsar researcher from McGill University and has helped our understanding of these amazing objects.
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The planets of our Solar System vary considerably in terms of density, which is crucial in terms of its classification and knowing how it was formed.
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China's new radio telescope will be the largest in the world, and will help in the search for alien life.
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Exotic "Diamond Planet" gets even more exotic with the discovery of a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - A time-lapse video newly released by NASA documents the painstakingly complex assembly of the primary mirror at the heart of the biggest space telescope ever conceived by humankind - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Russian scientists say design work has already begun on missiles designed to destroy incoming asteroids.
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Some great images of the dawn alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, with a very special sneak peek at all the planetary action to come in 2016.
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Messier Object 3 (aka. NGC 5272), a globular cluster located in the constellation of Canes Venatici, is one of the brightest clusters in the sky.
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Watch the Moon as it crosses the Hyades star cluster tonite, and occults the bright star Aldebaran for observers in the United States northwest.
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Researchers at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak facility in Hefei, China, claim that they have reached a major milestone in fusion power
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Looking for a cosmic way to say "I love you" this Valentine's Day? Let Mars, Pluto and Bennu help you out.
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The Obama Administration has announced its new Federal budget and is proposing to cut NASA's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget to $19 billion by carving away significant funding for deep space exploration, whereas the overall US Federal budget actually increases to over $4.1 trillion.
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These beautiful, retro-style posters from NASA recall the glory days of space tourism. That haven't happened yet.
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During the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod Competition, Elon Musk commented on the possibility of Hyperloop on Mars
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A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.
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The discovery of gravitational waves generated by the collision of two massive black holes could revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
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On Feb. 6th a bus driver in India was reportedly struck and killed by a falling meteorite. Did this really happen? Almost certainly not. We look at the details.
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In the third and final article in our gravitational wave guide, we explain what kinds of events can generate these powerful ripples in spacetime.
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The discovery of hundreds of galaxies, hidden from view behind the Milky Way, help shed light on the nature of The Great Attractor.
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Time to brush up on your gravitational wave basics, if you haven't done so! In Gravitational waves and how they distort space, I had a look at what gravitational waves do. Now, on to the next step: How can we measure what they do? How do gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO work?
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Astrophysicists using the Kepler Spacecraft have discovered the largest rocky planet yet: BD+20594b is 16 times as massive as Earth.
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Also known as NGC 7089, Messier 2 is a large globular star cluster located in the constellation Aquarius, 33,000 light years from Earth.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida last week aboard NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft.
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Now is the time to catch sight of the asteroid 4 Vesta, as it pairs with Uranus and several stars in the early dusk sky.
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In the latest discovery to come from the New Horizons mission, it now seems that Pluto has hills of water ice that "float" across its surface
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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - All 18 of the primary mirrors have been fully installed onto the flight structure of what will become the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever built by humankind - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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It's official: on February 11, 10:30 EST, there will be a big press conference about gravitational waves by the people running the gravitational wave detector LIGO.
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An Arizona State University research team hypothesizes that strange "cauliflower-shaped" rocks discovered by the Spirit Rover in 2008 may have been sculpted by microbes.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 4, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of his Apollo 14 mission lunar landing.
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Here are some cool things to look for in the night sky this coming week including many passes of the space station, a curious curlicue in Orion and the fab five-planet alignment at dawn.
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On March 5th, asteroid 2013 TX68 could be making a close flyby Earth. But NASA's asteroid watchers insist there's no reason to worry.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION - Despite howling winds and unseasonably frigid temperatures in the 'sunshine state', United Launch Alliance's workhorse Atlas V rocket successfully blasted off this morning, Friday, Feb 5, and delivered the final GPS satellite in the IIF series to orbit for the US Air Force.
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Humans have been looking up at the stars and finding patterns for millennia. Today, there are 88 recognized constellations, each with their own story.
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Far from being a deflector shield that protected Earth from comets, a new study shows that Jupiter may have directed planetesimals, with their payload of life-friendly chemicals, into Earth itself.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION - The first launch of 2016 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is poised for blastoff on Friday, Feb. 5, and features a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a US Air Force payload that will fortify the GPS constellation of navigation satellites that is critically important to military and civilian users on a 24/7 basis.
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