In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, a Harvard Professor and former White House science advisor recommend that the US government remain invested in research and space exploration.
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NASA's Psyche mission is sure to find some interesting things when it explores a metal asteroid, like quadrillions of dollars worth of precious metals!
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An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have immense implications for astronomy.
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A team of French scientists recently claimed to have created metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, a claim which is triggering both enthusiasm and skepticism
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You couldn't order up a geekier celestial scene from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three seasons begins for 2019, with the only total solar eclipse of the year spanning the southern tip of South America, including the nations of Chile and Argentina. As an extra-special part of the spectacle, however, the path of totality for the eclipse passes right over the La Silla observatory complex in the Atacama Desert.
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At this year's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC), a team from the ESA presented a model for how humanity could settle the Milky Way galaxy.
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