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Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.
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Trash on earth is pretty bad. But space trash is at a whole other level.
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Michelle Thaller from NASA examines if it’s possible to put up a giant disk to block out the sun’s rays and cool Earth.
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Current physician and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski knows a thing or two about out-of-this-world success.
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In a major announcement today, NASA reveals that its rover found organic compounds and methane.
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Astronauts aren’t floating in space, they’re free falling—and so are you. Here’s the amazing science behind so-called zero gravity.
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Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientific and analytical minds of our time, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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Is the world actually flat? Let’s ask someone who has some actual perspective on the subject… from space.
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What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser.
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While millions catch a glimpse of a rare lunar event, NASA plans to shut down an orbiter whose purpose is to study the moon.
The thick sheets of ice at these eight sites could provide the reservoir of water necessary for human expeditions to Mars.
You can watch the Cosmos marathon right now, for free!
Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real.
There have been some interesting “sightings” in the news these days.
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A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.
The Flat Earth theory has gained a surprising amount of traction in recent years, thanks largely to YouTube. What exactly do Flat Earthers believe?
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
The establishment of a colony on Mars seems inevitable given just how many groups are drawing up plans for the red planet. NASA intends on sending manned expeditions in the […]
Cosmic collision yields bullion by the billions.
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LIGO and Virgo reveal a gravitational wave was detected on two different continents. Here’s what that means and why it matters.
NASA scientists are sifting through some of the last transmissions from Cassini. And what they’re finding are kittens. You read that right.
The NASA probe to Saturn went out in a blaze of glory last week.
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There’s only one guy on this whole planet who’s done both. He tells us what it’s like to experience two of the most extreme feats.
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It’s an incredibly exciting time to be alive, especially if you’re an explorer. We may have been to almost every point on the globe, but there is so much left to understand.
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Greatest job ever? NASA will pay six-figures to a Planetary Protection Officer.
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss spoke at CSICon 2016 about scientists’ attempt to look back in time to the beginning of our universe.
NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.
Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.
New research on Uranus’ magnetosphere could help scientists learn about distant systems, and refine the ways they search for alien life.