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Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever SpottedA newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system — and the first object ever found circling at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
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SpaceX Launches Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, But Misses Rocket LandingSpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifted off into clear blue skies today (Dec. 5), but its first stage spiraled down in a failed landing.
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Stephen Hawking's Children and Colleagues Discuss Physicist's Final Book, LegacyIn his final book, released Oct. 16, Stephen Hawking tackles big questions about the universe, delving into physics, cosmology, the existence of God and the future direction of humanity.
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Glowing Blue Clouds Ripple at Edge of Earth's Atmosphere (Video)The clouds' rippling and flow reflect the movement of air in the upper atmosphere resulting from a phenomenon called atmospheric gravity waves.
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New NASA Images Show California's Largest Wildfire from Space. Canadian Blazes, TooThe Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest blaze in California's history, releases clouds of smoke in new photos from NASA, and fires blazing over Canada are visible from a million miles away in space.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Megarocket Gets 1st Test Launch Today: Watch It LiveSpaceX's giant new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, is set for its risky first test launch today (Feb. 6) from the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA Goes for 'GOLD' to Scan the Border of Earth and SpaceA new NASA mission, the first to hitch a ride on a commercial communications satellite, will examine Earth's upper atmosphere to see how the boundary between Earth and space changes over time.
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Einstein Would Be 'Flabbergasted' by Gravitational Wave NobelEinstein would be pleased — but flabbergasted — to hear the details of humanity's first direct detection of gravitational waves, according to one of three new Nobel winners for the discovery.
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Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Strongest in a DecadeEarly this morning (Sept. 6) the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.
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Famous 600-Year-Old Nova Pinpointed in Modern DayAfter decades of hunting, astronomers have tracked down the origin of a nova first recorded by Korean royal astrologers nearly 600 years ago.
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Brain-Like Neural Networks Study Space-Time Distortions at Breakneck SpeedResearchers have used brain-like "neural networks" to analyze key distortions in space-time 10 million times faster than conventional methods can do so.
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'EPIC' Solar Eclipse View Captured from 1 Million Miles Away (Video) -
In 1925, Observers Lined Manhattan to Measure the Total Solar Eclipse -
The 2017 Solar Eclipse May Prove the Sun Is Bigger Than We ThinkA growing number of researchers think that the sun is actually larger than commonly thought.
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8-Legged Extremophile Freaks Will Outlive Humanity (& Maybe the Sun)The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.
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Superdense Extraterrestrial Ice Formed in a (Laser) FlashIn a new experiment, researchers have created a super-dense version of ice found deep within icy moons and colliding comets, and watched it form in nanoseconds.
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets, Boosts Total to 4,034NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been used to detect 219 new planet candidates, including 10 in the so-called habitable zones of the stars they orbit.
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How Scientists Predict the Path of the 2017 Total Solar EclipseHere's how NASA scientists figure out exactly where the moon's shadow will fall on the surface of the Earth, down to the city block.
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After the Flood: Author Kim Stanley Robinson Describes Future NYC Underwater -
Hooked on the Shadow: 'Mr. Eclipse' Shares Tips for the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
