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Weird! Mercury's scorching temps may actually lead to ice.Could Mercury's close orbit to the sun help the planet generate ice? This sounds like a paradox, but a new study shows how it could happen.
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'Dyson sphere' legacy: Freeman Dyson's wild alien megastructure idea will live foreverFreeman Dyson may be gone, but his famous alien-hunting idea will likely persist far into the future.
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DARPA's hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' could blast missile threats out of the skyAerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.
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The Greatest Spaceflight Moments of 2019Three lunar missions, commercial spaceflight milestones, the first all-woman spacewalk — 2019 was a busy year in space for public and private entities alike.
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The Force of 'Star Wars': The Staying Power of a Sci-Fi Icon ExplainedWhat is it about the "Star Wars" franchise that gives it staying power throughout a generation and a half of change?
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NASA's 'Treasure Map' of Water Ice on Mars Shows Where Humans Should LandNASA's wish to follow the water on Mars just got a helping hand.
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Russian Military Launches Secret Surveillance Satellite Into OrbitA Russian Soyuz rocket launched a top-secret military satellite designed to scope out other satellites in space on Monday (Nov. 25), according to government reports.
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Rare Mercury Transit, the Last Until 2032, Thrills Skywatchers Around the WorldThe tiny planet Mercury scooted across the sun's face today (Nov. 11) for the last time until 2032, and skywatchers around the world had the chance to witness the rare celestial event.
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Mercury Transit on Monday: The Gear You Need to Watch It SafelyThe Mercury transit on Nov. 11 will be accessible to amateur astronomers, as long as they have the right equipment to view it safely.
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NASA Tracks Diablo Winds Powering Massive Kincade Wildfire in CaliforniaGusting winds in northern California are helping the spread of the Kincade fire, as shown in a new animation from NASA.
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The Milky Way Stole Its Cosmic Neighbors from Another GalaxyOur home galaxy stole several dwarf galaxies that used to belong to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy near the Milky Way.
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Russia Says It Will Keep Source of Hole (and Air Leak) on Soyuz Secret— But NASA Wants to Know: ReportNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine wants answers.
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How to Watch the 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower Live OnlineOne of the year's brightest meteor showers is about to take flight. If you face cloudy or light-polluted skies at home, however, never fear — the Perseids will also be streamed online.
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Bernie Sanders Pledges to Release Any Info About Aliens If He's Elected in 2020Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-VT) says he's prepared to disclose government information about UFOs if he wins in 2020.
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These Butter Sculpture Celebrate NASA's Apollo 11 Astronauts and They're Legen-DAIRY!The Apollo 11 sculptures took more than 2,200 pounds of butter to create.
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2 SoCal Earthquakes Warped the Ground for Miles. And It's Visible from Space.Japanese satellite shows where the ground was broken up and even sliced open during the twin earthquakes near Ridgecrest.
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Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks SpectacularMars got whacked.
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'Star Trek' Logo Spotted on MarsIt looks like Starfleet is literally embedded on the planet next door.
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Sun Could Unleash a 'Superflare' Hundreds of Thousands of Times More Powerful Than Any Known FlareA powerful superflare could disrupt electronics across the globe, causing widespread blackouts.
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Grave of Israeli Lunar Lander Spotted by NASA SpacecraftA sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft spotted the probable remains of an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon last month.
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Bill Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate ChangeScience popularizer Bill Nye told viewers of a popular late-night show that Earth is "on [expletive] fire" while lighting a globe with a blowtorch.
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NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' That Look Like Inflatable 'Aliens'And they could be just the thing to explore worlds beyond Earth.
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Gorgeous Hubble Photo Gives Glimpse of Milky Way's FateA new image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope shows what happens when two galaxies collide — an experience our own Milky Way will have in a few billion years.
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