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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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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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How Long Would It Take to Cross the Milky Way at Light Speed?cosmology -
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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