A team of scientists from CSIRO and McGill have achieved an first by being able to pinpoint the source of fast radio bursts, which have left the astronomical community baffled
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Ancient volcanic activity on a massive scale helped make Mars what it is today.
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Space is mostly vast and empty. So whenever we notice something like ripples on a lake of methane, on the frozen moon of a gas giant, we take notice.
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No lander has survived for even 2 hours on Venus. But the Venus Land Sail should last 50 days.
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At a recent symposium in the Netherlands, representatives from the European Space Agency discussed plans to build a village on the Moon!
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian cohort Mikhail Kornienko successful returned to Earth late Tuesday night (March 1), after spending nearly a year in space aboard the space station on a mission to gauge the limits of human endurance in microgravity and blaze a path forward to eventual human expeditions to the Red Planet.
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After 340 placid days in space, the return to Earth will be punctuated by a 25 minute free-fall, extreme heat, deployment of a drogue chute, and the firing of rockets.
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Future supersonic passenger aircraft could be quieter, greener, and cheaper to operate if NASA's new X-Plane program gets off the ground.
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Get ready for Jupiter's opposition for the year, with our complete guide to observing the largest planet in 2016.
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A new study produced by researchers from the University of Innsbruck proposes that black holes might be the reason for the Universe's "missing matter"
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Following a pair of back to back launch scrubs this week on Wednesday and Thursday due to rocket fueling issues with the liquid oxygen propellant, SpaceX has reset the blast off of their upgraded Falcon 9 rocket - carrying the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite - to coincidentally coincide with a serene sunset on Sunday, Feb. 28.
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By measuring a fast radio burst (FRB) coming from space, a team of CSIRO scientists claims to have accounted for the "missing matter" of the Universe
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We turn our gaze away from Pluto's "heart" to explore the ancient ice canyons of its north polar region.
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With the recent milestone achieved by the New Horizons mission, many are contemplating what our next space exploration goal should be
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US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.
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Now that Advanced LIGO has made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, what does the future of gravitational wave astronomy hold in store?
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Pluto has been explored, and now the USPS has released new stamps to celebrate this accomplishment. And that's not all, more planets, the Moon and Star Trek?
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There's always time for a practical joke, even for the astronauts aboard the ISS.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Final preparations are underway for SpaceX's first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral during 2016 with the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite on Wednesday evening Feb. 24, following a smooth static fire engine test on Monday. Update: Technical issue postponed launch to Feb 25 at 6:46 pm.
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Where, why, and how should we terraform? What are the challenges, and is such a thing even possible with the technology we have?
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Wondering if the science in that sci-fi movie you just saw is real? Get a hold of the book "Hollyweird Science - From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse" by Kevin Grazier and Stephen Cass. With it, you can sift through a lot of "tropes and conceits" and glean some wonderful insights of both modern science and modern cinema.
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NASA has made public a recording of strange "music" that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.
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Opposition season 2016 for Jupiter kicks off with a great series of double shadow transits of the Galilean Moons.
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A new system holds the promise of interstellar travel, asteroid deflection, and even interstellar communication.
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Earth's lone mission to the Red Planet this year has now been assembled into launch configuration and all preparations are currently on target to support blastoff from Baikonur at the opening of the launch window on March 14, 2016.
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A team of University of Manchester researchers proposes an intriguing answer to the puzzle of why we've found precious few iron meteorites among the thousands of meteorites recovered from the ice sheets of Antarctica.
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A commercial Cygnus cargo freighter departed the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (Feb. 19) after successfully resuming America's train of resupply runs absolutely essential to the continued productive functioning of the orbiting science outpost.
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Astronomers use the Hubble Space Telescope to pin down the rotation rate of an exoplanet 170 light years from Earth where it rains rock dust and iron droplets.
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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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