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These beautiful, retro-style posters from NASA recall the glory days of space tourism. That haven't happened yet.
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During the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod Competition, Elon Musk commented on the possibility of Hyperloop on Mars
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A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.
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The discovery of gravitational waves generated by the collision of two massive black holes could revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
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On Feb. 6th a bus driver in India was reportedly struck and killed by a falling meteorite. Did this really happen? Almost certainly not. We look at the details.
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In the third and final article in our gravitational wave guide, we explain what kinds of events can generate these powerful ripples in spacetime.
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The discovery of hundreds of galaxies, hidden from view behind the Milky Way, help shed light on the nature of The Great Attractor.
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Time to brush up on your gravitational wave basics, if you haven't done so! In Gravitational waves and how they distort space, I had a look at what gravitational waves do. Now, on to the next step: How can we measure what they do? How do gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO work?
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Astrophysicists using the Kepler Spacecraft have discovered the largest rocky planet yet: BD+20594b is 16 times as massive as Earth.
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Also known as NGC 7089, Messier 2 is a large globular star cluster located in the constellation Aquarius, 33,000 light years from Earth.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida last week aboard NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft.
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Now is the time to catch sight of the asteroid 4 Vesta, as it pairs with Uranus and several stars in the early dusk sky.
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In the latest discovery to come from the New Horizons mission, it now seems that Pluto has hills of water ice that "float" across its surface
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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - All 18 of the primary mirrors have been fully installed onto the flight structure of what will become the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever built by humankind - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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It's official: on February 11, 10:30 EST, there will be a big press conference about gravitational waves by the people running the gravitational wave detector LIGO.
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An Arizona State University research team hypothesizes that strange "cauliflower-shaped" rocks discovered by the Spirit Rover in 2008 may have been sculpted by microbes.
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