NASA just observed two powerful flares emitted off the Sun. Now's your chance to see some auroras, if the full Moon doesn't wreck the view.
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A team of researchers from japan have found evidence of another massive black hole near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
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NASA's Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced astronaut, returned to Earth safely and smiling Sunday morning on the steppes of Kazakhstan, concluding her record-breaking stay in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) along with Soyuz crewmates Jack Fischer of NASA and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos.
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A new study from a team of researchers from the University of Iowa claims black holes ejecting light could have been what ended the cosmic "Dark Ages"
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NASA engineers are busy getting the InSight Lander ready for launch, which is scheduled to take place in early summer of 2018
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PLAYALINDA BEACH/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Following a successful engine test firing of the Falcon 9 first stage late Thursday afternoon (Aug. 30), SpaceX is targeting a post Labor Day launch of the U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B reusable mini-shuttle - a secretive technology testing spaceplane.
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A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that UV radiation may be the key to finding life on other planets
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Located in the southern skies is the Crux constellation (aka. the "Southern Cross"), a constellation that played an important role in the history of navigation and cultural astronomy
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A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still have significant amounts of water.
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A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is moving into Phase II of their plan to send a clockwork rover to explore Venus
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Using the Green Bank Telescope, researchers with Breakthrough Listen recently detected repeating fast radio bursts coming from a distant galaxy.
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The second Hyperloop Pod Design Competition was a success, with teams from all over the world testing their pod car designs at SpaceX test track in California.
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A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant star systems.
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Ready to hunt for low-flying space rocks? We've got an interesting pass of a Near Earth Asteroid this upcoming U.S. Labor Day weekend one that just slides over the +10th magnitude line into binocular range.
We're talking about asteroid 3122 Florence which passes 4.4 million miles from our fair planet (that's 7 million kilometers, about 18 times the distance from Earth to the Moon) this Friday on September 1st at 12:06 Universal Time (UT)/ 8:06 AM Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT).
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In a recent interview, former astronaut and science communicator Chris Hadfield advocating settling the Moon before going to Mars.
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Located in the Sagittarius Constellation, roughly 17,600 light-years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 55
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When it is deployed in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will spend some of its time studying the "Ocean Worlds" of Europa and Enceladus, hoping to find evidence of life.
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