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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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Is Anyone Out There? New SETI Tool Keeps Track of Alien SearchesWith research on extraterrestrial life continuing across the world, a noted researcher from the SETI Institute launched a new tool to help researchers keep track of results.
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Why Jupiter's Rapid Growth Spurt Was Delayed for Millions of YearsNew research suggests why Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, waited about two million years for its early-formation growth spurt.
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Weird Volcanoes Are Erupting Across the Solar SystemSizzling-hot rocks explode and ooze onto the surfaces of several extraterrestrial worlds.
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Will Parker Solar Probe Really 'Touch the Sun'?The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to "touch the sun." What does that really mean though since the sun is a sizzling ball of gas?
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Why This 5.4-Million-Year-Old Planet Is Still a BabyAstronomers just captured a first-of-its-kind image of a newborn alien world — which has been developing in a nursery of dust and gas for more than 5 million years.
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Should the US Have a Military Presence in Space?President Donald Trump's call this week that to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military — which he called the "Space Force" — has reopened a wider debate on the military's role in space.
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Why Cosmonauts Pee on the Bus That Picks Them Up for LaunchesEvery time that space crews launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they literally follow in the footsteps of the first human in space – Yuri Gagarin.
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The Secret Backstory Behind Kazakhstan's Rocket Launch SiteOn June 6, three people will rocket into space from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But why does this country of only 18 million people have a large space facility known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome?
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SpaceX's Elon Musk Proposes Media Company That Rates Journalists. Is He Serious?What's behind his posts? Is it just another Musk prank, or is he actually serious about the idea?
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Does Humanity Need a Backup Earth?SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. Is that humanity's best option?
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Found! New Evidence Suggests Planet Nine Is RealThe solar system just got a bit stranger.
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Heat Shield for NASA's Next Mars Mission Breaks During TestingAs for what caused the failture, NASA engineers aren't sure yet.
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This Ice Is Nearly As Hot As the Sun. Scientists Have Now Made It on Earth.For the first time, researchers re-created the high-pressure water ice likely found in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune.
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There Is Evidence That a Planet in Our Solar System Was DestroyedThe lost planet was the size of Mercury or perhaps Mars, researchers now say.
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How a Football Field-Size Asteroid Caught Us by SurpriseEarth received a cosmic close shave on Sunday (April 15) when a football field-size boulder passed by at half the moon's distance from our planet.
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What Is a Blue Moon, Anyway?Skywatchers tonight (March 31) will be treated to the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, just on the eve of Easter. What is this type of moon, and is it actually blue?
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Crashing Chinese Space Station Will Go Down Shooting — FireballsScientists expect that as the station burns up, it will generate huge fireballs visible from the ground.
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Chinese Space Station May Crash Like NASA's SkylabThe uncontrolled fall to Earth of China's Tiangong-1 space lab may share some similarities with the end of the Skylab space station in 1979; some of Skylab's pieces rained down on rural Australia.
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Why Is China's Space Station Falling to Earth in the First Place?The one-module station is in an uncontrolled fall and will re-enter the atmosphere somewhere underneath the spacecraft's orbit, but nobody knows exactly when or where that will happen.
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If the Falling Chinese Space Station Hits You, Is Anyone Liable?The crashing space lab's orbital path includes the United States and most of the population of the world. On the off chance a piece of Tiangong-1 hits you, here's who is liable.
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Yep, the Earth Is Still Round, Neil deGrasse Tyson Says"Cosmos" host and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently shot down the ideas of anyone out there who still thinks the Earth is flat.
