A mysterious plume seen on Mars four years ago may have been caused by the impact of a large solar storm.
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Paul Patton begins a three-part series on the evolutionary biology of aliens. Will they follow the same direction as life on Earth?
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If you accelerate at 1G, you can create artificial gravity inside your spaceship. And there's the added advantage that you can cross billions of light years within a human lifetime. How far can we travel?
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Most people think Mt. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but this is not so. Owing to Earth's peculiar shape, it's actually Mt. Chimborazo
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America's first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth - OSIRIS-Rex - has arrived at its Florida launch base for processing to get ready for blastoff barely three and one half months from today.
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Given its distance from the Sun, and the nature of its composition, Neptune is renowned for being the coldest planet in our Solar System
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The difference between lava and magma, which is rather important when it comes to volcanic activity and geology, is just a question of location
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The focus of space exploration, and exploitation, has long been the technologies required. But there's a legal aspect to space exploration, too.
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A a distant gas giant, Jupiter takes a considerable amount of time to orbit our Sun. In act, a single year on Jupiter is equal to almost 12 years on Earth
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The Hubble Space Telescope gets in the act with a spectacular new close-up of Mars taken just days before opposition. We also look at what you'll be able to see both with the naked eye and through the telescope.
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Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could launch by 2020 and be operational in time for a lunar link-up with NASA's Orion crew module during its maiden mission, when American astronauts finally return to the Moon's vicinity in 2021 - thus advancing America's next giant leap in human exploration of deep space.
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When our Venus (aka. "Earth's Twin") orbits between the Earth and the Sun (i.e. during an interior conjunction), it becomes Earth's closest neighbor
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With Pluto in its rear-view mirror, New Horizons is heading towards its next target, and sending back valuable science on its way.
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Since ancient times, scientists have debated the true nature of light. Despite the progress we've made, there are still mysteries left to be resolved
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The next Orion crew module in line to launch to space on NASA's Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) has passed a critical series of proof pressure tests which confirm the effectiveness of the welds holding the spacecraft structure together.
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Scientists in Australia have found evidence of an enormous asteroid impact about 3.5 billion years ago. But the site of that impact remains a mystery.
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According to a recent study from the Carl Sagan Institute, aging red giant stars could still have habitable zones that create life on its distant planets
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2 By Sea, 1 By Land. The 3rd recovered Falcon 9 booster has joined her siblings inside SpaceX's gleaming new processing hangar, laying side-by-side at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
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Pluto and Haumea have long been thought of as cousins. But a new study highlights Haumea's lack of small, icy moons, and has astronomers puzzled.
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Simply put, air resistance (aka. drag) describes the forces that act opposite to an object's velocity as it travels through an atmosphere
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In the constellation of Ophiuchus lies the M14 globular cluster, a loose concentration of stars spanning 100 light years, 300,000 light-years from Earth
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Thanks to astronaut Tim Peake, people here on Earth have been treated for the first time to an image of what a chipped window aboard the ISS looks like!
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Why this weekend's Full Moon is considered 'blue'... but not in the usual sense.
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An upgraded version of Orbital ATK's commercially developed Antares rocket has at last rolled out to its launch pad on the Virginia shore - thus paving the path for a high stakes first stage engine test looming "in the next few weeks," according to the aerospace firm.
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Using the largest 3-D map of the Universe to date, an team of researchers has shown that Einstein's theory of general relativity holds up 100 years later
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The Hubble Space Telescope takes a deep look into the Comet 252P/LINEAR and discovers a spinning jet. We look at the jet then learn how you can still track this comet with your own telescope.
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As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing's first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for the blastoff date of the first crewed flight in order to deal with spacecraft mass, aerodynamic launch and flight software issues, a Boeing spokesperson told Universe Today.
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After nearly a year in orbit, speculation still abounds as to the X-37B spacecraft's true purpose, and what its been doing up there all this time
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Recent data from the ESO's trio of Swarm satellites point to a weakening of the Earth's magnetic field as well as variations in field strength across the planet in recent years.
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The recovered SpaceX first stage booster that nailed a spectacular middle-of-the-night touchdown at sea last week sailed back to Port Canaveral, Florida, late Monday and was transferred by crane on Tuesday from the drone ship to land - as seen in an amazing time-lapse video and photos, shown above and below and obtained by Universe Today.
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Elon Musk recently announced SpaceX's plans to send a spacecraft to the surface of Mars by 2018. It's never been easier to die on Mars.
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If our Universe could be likened to a playground, our Sun would be one of the little kids playing in it. And the big kids, it turns out, are really big!
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Astronomers using the Kepler spacecraft and data from the Herschel Space Observatory have given us a revealing glimpse of dwarf planet 2007 OR10.
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At a facility the Nevada Desert, the startup company known as Hyperloop One recently conducted a successful test of the technology that could revolutionize transport
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The Big Bear Solar Observatory Captures a high-res image of this week's transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun.
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A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly two tons of critical NASA science and technology experiments and equipment returned to Earth this afternoon, Wednesday, May 11, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean - and bringing about a successful conclusion to its mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that also brought aloft a new room for the resident crew.
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Thanks to new data from the New Horizons mission that shows how Pluto behaves as both a planet and a comet, it may be necessary to reclassify this world again!
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A new image from Cassini shows Saturn's southern polar vortex in striking detail.
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When you remove all the touch-ups and filters, the planets of the Solar System look slightly different than you might imagine, especially in terms of color
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No one had a better view of the transit of Mercury across the Sun than the space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory, as it had a completely unobstructed view of the entire seven-and-a-half-hour event.
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The airborne observatory SOFIA has detected atomic oxygen in Mars' upper atmosphere. It's been 40 years since oxygen has been detected there.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that successfully launched a Japanese satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) just 3 days ago and then nailed a safe middle of the night touchdown on a drone ship at sea minutes minutes later, is headed back to port and may arrive overnight or soon thereafter.
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