Ceres has some strange topography: NASA recently revealed a new image of the dwarf planet and it shows Ahuna Mons, a bizarre mountain that looks like a giant glacier. The image, which NASA says […]
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The giant rocket NASA plans to use to return to the Moon by 2024 has been beset by delays and spending has overrun by almost 30 percent, an official audit said Wednesday. The delays threaten the timetable set by President Donald Trump’s...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to photograph a yet-to-be-discovered comet as it approaches Earth's orbit for the first time. To do so, it's developing "Comet Interceptor," a composite made of three individual spacecraft,...
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NASA has revealed its next point of solar system obsession, planning to set the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope on Saturn to help pick apart its secrets. The ringed planet is unarguably the most distinctive of our celestial neighbors, but...
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NASA’s X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other — featuring a big 4K screen where you’d normally have a front window. Why? Because this is one weird-looking plane.
The X-59, which is being...
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New exoplanet discoveries have been happening at a breakneck pace over the past several years thanks to scientists who now have more powerful observational tools at their disposal. However, while new planets are found regularly, worlds that could...
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Climate change is about big things: melting ice sheets, rising seas, the feverish temperature of the planet.
The giant rocket NASA plans to use to return to the Moon by 2024 has been beset by delays and spending has overrun by almost 30 percent, an official audit said Wednesday.
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Areas of the Canadian Arctic permafrost are thawing rapidly, 70 years ahead of when scientists previously believed, as the climate crisis continues to push the planet towards dangerous tipping points.
Reuters reported on the change Tuesday citing...
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Astronomers detect polarized radio waves from a gamma-ray burst for the first time. Polarization signature reveals magnetic fields in explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than first thought. Combining the observations with data from X-ray...
The federal government is enormously inefficient. Agencies have little incentive to control costs or improve quality, and Congress does little serious oversight. Indeed, members face incentives to spend lavishly on items such as Pentagon weapon...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft inched closer still to an asteroid called Bennu, breaking the record it set previously — but the real reward is the stunning photographs the probe has captured since.
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Signals written in elements from the early universe have revealed the oldest known merger between two galaxies, taking place less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
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A big space rock slammed the red planet, leaving behind a cosmic work of art.
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The sun’s rotation rate during its first billion years still remains a mystery, yet this spin rate impacted solar eruptions and sparked life on Earth. Now, a group of NASA scientists are suggesting […]
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A group of astronomers led by Crystal Martin and Stephanie Ho of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has discovered a dizzying cosmic choreography among typical star-forming galaxies
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A pair of potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered orbing around Teegarden’s star. Teegarden is an old red dwarf star that is 12 light-years away from Earth in the Aries constellation. Both of the planets orbiting the star have...
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The Galaxy Note 10, now expected to launch on August 7th, is hardly a secret anymore. We've seen plenty of leaks that have confirmed the phone's design and even the sky-high price tag has been outed. The Note 10 will come in two sizes, both...
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Office of the Inspector General brings lab back down to Earth NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still has "multiple IT security control weaknesses" that expose "systems and data to exploitation by cyber criminals", despite cautions earlier this year.…
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Moon samples collected by the Apollo astronauts a half-century ago hold answers to questions that weren't even on scientists' minds at the time, as new technological tools provide insight into some of the oldest mysteries about the moon, the earth...
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