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A Japanese spacecraft is about to send a 'treasure box' of asteroid dust plummeting to Earth. Watch the sample return live.
Hayabusa-2 is set to drop bits of asteroid rock down into the Australian outback on Saturday - the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away
Jupiter and Saturn have nothing on these gas giants. The planets are several times more massive and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy
Our sun orbits the galaxy's center, completing its rotation every 250 million years or so. So Chris…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has started 'final assembly' on a tennis court-size space telescope
Each of JWST's mirrors are made of beryllium, coated in gold, and will operate at a chilly minus-40…
Kelly Dickerson
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The Moon and Earth shared the same magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago shows new NASA study
The shared magnetic field situation, with Earth and Moon's magnetospheres joined, could have per…
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It may have been the Sun that sent water to Earth
Contributing author and director of Curtin University's Space Science and Technology Centre (S…
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COMET ISON: The Most Exciting Thing To Happen On Thanksgiving
In the first and most exciting scenario, ISON could survive the passage of the sun and continue on …
Dina Spector
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The best map of our galaxy ever created shows where we are in relation to 1.7 billion stars
Everything the spacecraft has observed and catalogued so far will eventually help build a detailed …
Kevin Loria
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Clouds on Uranus smell like farts, astronomers have confirmed - a clue that there was 'a big shakeup' early in the solar system
"If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very …
Dave Mosher
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA just revealed how extreme climate change transformed Mars into a lifeless desert
"We can't actually go back in time," Bougher said during a presentation at the University of Michig…
Jessica Orwig
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People blame Mercury retrograde for everything from delayed planes to relationship troubles - but scientists say it's totally bogus
In reality, Mercury in retrograde isn't such an unusual occurrence: The planet goes into retrograde…
Shana Lebowitz
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Astronomers found the closest black hole to Earth — and there could be millions more like it
Scientists usually find black holes by detecting X-rays they emit as they devour nearby stars. But …