If we do discover that there are aliens orbiting other planets, will we know how to communicate with them? What messages can we send that they'll understand?
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When space objects pass in front of other space objects, we call that a transit. And it turns out, they're not just fun to watch, they helped us figure out our place in the cosmos.
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Using lunar samples from the Apollo missions, scientists have determined that the majority of water inside the Moon was delivered by meteors.
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Billions of year ago, the Sun, the planets, and all other objects in the Solar System began as a giant, nebulous cloud of gas and dust particles.
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A student at the University of British Columbia has discovered four new exoplanets in Kepler data.
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Orbital ATK announced late Tuesday that the company's Antares medium-class commercial rocket outfitted with new first stage RD-181 engines has successfully completed a test firing of the powerplants.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will conduct a live chat with ISS astronauts today, and it will be streamed at NASA's Facebook page.
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Watch that Moon this weekend, as it crosses the dawn sky, meets up with Mercury, and ushers in Ramadan 2016.
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The package of powerful science instruments at the heart of NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been successfully installed into the telescopes structure.
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The Delta-4 Heavy launch scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled due to unspecified payload reasons.
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Can we assume that aliens will evolve intelligence over the eons, and will this lead to other technological civilizations? Will aliens find big brains sexy?
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Spectacular imagery showcasing SpaceX's Thaicom blastoff on May 27 keeps rolling in as the firms newest sea landed booster sails merrily along back to its home port atop a 'droneship' landing platform.
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Mars is reaching its closest point to Earth in 11 years, and will be a delightful to amateur astronomers.
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The latest release by the New Horizons mission - a photo mosaic of pictures taken during its flyby - provides the clearest image of Pluto yet!
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WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – The soon to be reborn Orbital ATK Antares commercial rocket sporting new first stage engines has been raised at its repaired launch pad on Virginia's eastern shore for a long awaited test firing of the powerplants. The static test firing is now slated to take place in less than 3 days on Tuesday evening, May 31.
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Mars and Earth have many similarities, but the length of a year is not one of them! Compared to Earth, a Martian year is almost twice as long
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL. - Atop a billowing plume of fire and smoke a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared to space this afternoon, Friday, May 27, as the crackling thunder of the engines roared across the Florida space coast and the company scored a stunning double headed launch and landing success.
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A new study shows that there are multiple scenarios where exoplanet Kepler 62f could support life.
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Blue Origin will perform its next test flight of the New Shepard rocket with a faulty parachute system on the crew capsule.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Thursday's (May 26) planned blastoff of an upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a lucrative commercial mission to deliver a Thai telecommunications satellite to orbit, was postponed in the final stages of the countdown after engineers discovered a technical glitch in the booster's second stage.
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Neptune, being the farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto!) is now recognized as also being the coldest body in the Solar System
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We've lived on planet Earth all of our lives, but how much does the average person know about the planet that's beneath our feet?
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Stars are hot, we know that, everyone knows that. But are there "cold stars"? It all depends on what you mean by the word "cold" and the word "star".
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A team of Armenian researchers has proposed a new answer to why time only moves in one-direction: it's all because of dark energy!
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Volcanic eruptions are driven by a combination of mechanisms, which include pressure and heat in the Earth's mantle, as well as tectonic activity
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NASA's proposed new budget is mostly good news, though some planned missions will not be funded.
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Get ready. Saturn reaches opposition for 2016 at the start of June, making it the best time to track down the ringed planet.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - Just three weeks after SpaceX's last launch from their Florida launch base, the growing and influential aerospace firm is deep into commencing their next space spectacular - targeting this Thursday, May 26, for launch of a Thai comsat followed moments later by a sea landing attempt of the booster on a tough trajectory.
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The BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) is attached to the International Space Station, and will be carefully inflated on Thursday, May 26th.
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Using data provided by the New Horizon's spacecraft, scientists and the New York Times have created app that lets people to take a 3D VR tour of Pluto
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Thanks to breakthroughs like Breakthrough Starshot, it may be easier to find extra-terrestrial intelligence, by looking for signs of laser beams!
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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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