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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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Why Are People Freaking Out About These Boring SpaceX Satellites?space-exploration -
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.
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No, Those Aren’t Animal Tracks on Marsmars -
Satellite View Shows 'Bomb Cyclone' Battering US East Coastweather -
Why the Asteroid Approaching Earth Was Only Spotted 5 Days AgoNASA didn't spot the asteroid, 2018 CB, that will skim by Earth today until a few days ago. Here's why it snuck under the radar.
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Asteroid Skimming Past Earth Today May Loom Larger Than Exploding Russian Meteorasteroids
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When Will SpaceX Lose Connection with Starman?SpaceX's star dummy, riding in space inside a cushy Tesla Roadster, could lose contact with Earth any time.
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What SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch Means for Getting Humans to MarsThe launch is a key stepping-stone in the company's quest to bring colonists to Mars.
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Fireball Finds! Meteorite Fragments from Dazzling Michigan Meteor Found on IceMeteorite hunters in Michigan found six rocks Thursday (Jan. 18) that likely came from a spectacular fireball that lit up local skies earlier this week.
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We May Not Be Alone, Former Pentagon UFO Investigator SaysThe former head of a secret government program to investigate UFO sightings told several media outlets that extraterrestrial life may exist.
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Navy Pilot Was 'Pretty Weirded Out' by Encounter with Unidentified Object in 2004conspiracies-paranormal -
Spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight! How to Watch Onlinemeteoroids -
This Ultrathin Craft Could Soon Envelop and Destroy Space JunkAt least 500,000 pieces of space debris threaten satellites and astronauts, but a California-based company says it has a new approach for taking out the garbage.
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Help Make an 'Eclipse Megamovie' Using Your SmartphoneIf you want to do some science during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 using nothing but your phone, consider contributing to the Eclipse Megamovie project.
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