Space & Astronomy
Your source for the latest astronomy news and space discoveries, as well as leading articles on space exploration, NASA, cosmology, our solar system and the universe. Delve into space travel and the technology associated with it.
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DEC 14, 2016Earth & The Environment
There are a number of problems with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth that are occurring because of climate ... -
FEB 22, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's Dawn spacecraft will have plenty of mysteries to investigate when it begins orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres next ...
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APR 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
When we think of going to Mars using a spacecraft with nuclear fusion engines, most of us think of science fiction, but ...
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DEC 30, 2015Space & Astronomy
We should all know by now that NASA has an interest in putting people on the Moon to settle there permanently some time ...
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JUN 23, 2019Space & Astronomy
Pluto was once called a planet in our solar system, but those definitions changed in 2006, and this officially demoted P ...
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SEP 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
In mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet Pluto and captured high detail photographs ...
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JAN 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have scientists just found the missing gravity waves that we’ve been searching for for more than a century since E ...
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MAR 10, 2022Space & Astronomy
Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing ...
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JAN 02, 2019Space & Astronomy
Just a couple weeks ago, Russian cosmonauts performed a spacewalk at the International Space Station to investigate the ...
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AUG 21, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini Solstice Mission, which involved sending a spacecraft to Saturn and spending quite a bit of time th ...
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NOV 04, 2018Space & Astronomy
You might think that the weather can get nasty here on Earth, but it pales in comparison to the weather on other planets ...
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OCT 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
In a rare event this week, sky gazers will be able to see three aligned planets in the Eastern skies at night amongst th ...
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AUG 06, 2015Space & Astronomy
So there's the average jetliner that cruises at about 550 miles per hour, which is subsonic. There was, until 2003, the ...
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SEP 02, 2015Space & Astronomy
As if singing on tour with Duke Ellington and being one of the first African American actresses to play a character othe ...
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DEC 02, 2018Space & Astronomy
When an interstellar object came sailing through our solar system last year, it astonished astronomers because th ...
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JAN 20, 2021Space & Astronomy
In 2017, a giant exoplanet called WASP-107b was discovered orbiting a star called WASP-107, which is around 212 light ye ...
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OCT 10, 2020Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found at least 24 planets outside of our solar system may be better for life than Earth. Each a little ...
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DEC 26, 2015Space & Astronomy
Every so often, asteroids and other large pieces of space rock and junk come very close to Earth, but fortunately they d ...
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APR 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
You've probably heard of the Orion space capsule. It's part of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or (MPCV), NASA's next man ...
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DEC 12, 2020Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge ...
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SEP 28, 2015Space & Astronomy
Researchers are saying that a discovery of stains from summertime flows down cliffs and crater walls increases the chanc ...
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SEP 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is keeping its eye on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the middle of the Asteroid Belt in between t ...
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NOV 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
Remnants of a United States-based space rocket has reportedly been discovered in the Ocean after having washed up on the ...
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SEP 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails ...
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JUN 09, 2020Space & Astronomy
SpaceX has nearly mastered the art of landing the first stages of the plethora of rockets its sends into space so that t ...
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FEB 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Meteorites that strike the Earth are composed of all kinds of elements, including metals. Among one of the more common m ...
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FEB 03, 2019Space & Astronomy
There’s no shortage of space junk encircling our planet, but one piece in particular first spotted by the Asteroid ...
