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Never seen before picture shows every cell of the Sun is twice the size of Rajasthan
The structures are rolling along the Sun’s surface, helping scientists map the magnetic fields w…
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A video shows the 'violent' collapse of the iconic Arecibo telescope. It sounded like an avalanche, a staff scientist said.
Puerto Rico's iconic Arecibo radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. Videos show its 900-ton platform…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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Working at NASA is out of this world, but Homeland Security employment is not so hot: report
The 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings report a slight decline in job sati…
Hanna Kang
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We just started building the largest and most powerful optical telescope ever
The mirrors must be absolutely flawless, or the telescope will return fuzzy and distorted images. I…
Kelly Dickerson
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One of the world's largest artificial waterfalls is a 350-foot manmade structure on the side of a Chinese skyscraper. Take a look.
The region now also features one of the world's tallest man-made waterfalls, located on the facade …
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is dead 9 years after launching into space
That next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be…
Dave Mosher,Reuters
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How 3 Native American tribes are fighting to protect sacred land from logging, oil pipelines, and a billion-dollar telescope
The Tlingit have been opposing the complete exemption of the Tongass from the "Roadless Rule," a Cl…
Anneke Ball,Lauren Shamo
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SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
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We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way — and it's giving birth to new stars
A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals that we live next to the largest gas cloud in the galaxy. …
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World's Largest Space Observatory Opens In Chile
"What is so very special about this place is that, right here above our heads, there is virtually n…
Roser Toll
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A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction
But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…
Dave Mosher
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This telescope will destroy sacred ground and Hawaiians are outraged
Astronomers have considered the environmental implications. It's not easy to get permission to buil…
Kelly Dickerson
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This giant telescope has split the astronomy community in two
The 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the chosen home for what will be the world's large…
Kelly Dickerson
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'The Walking Dead' spinoff may have just teased the answer to one of fan's biggest questions about the mysterious helicopter group
"The Walking Dead: World Beyond" may have given a big hint at what it means to be an "A" or a "B" o…
Kirsten Acuna
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The world's largest digital camera is about to be built on top of a mountain in Chile - here's what it will look like
The LSST will focus on capturing images of space at night. It's able to cover 10 square degrees of …
Jack Sommer
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This giant telescope may taint sacred land. Here's why we should build it anyway.
Foreign meddling and exploitation in Hawaii started when European explorer Captain Cook landed at t…
Kelly Dickerson
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Hawaiian astronomer reveals why he supports the telescope that's tearing his community apart
Hawaiian Governor David Ige sought to reach a compromise in the upheaval by calling for a few of th…
Kelly Dickerson
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No, NASA's $8.7 billion golden telescope is not complete - its torturous 2-year journey to space has only just begun
If the mirror passes those punishing tests, it will fly aboard a giant jet and to Johnson Space Cen…
Dave Mosher
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WATCH LIVE: A Mountain Top Is About To Get Blown Off To Make Way For A Giant Telescope
The mission of the telescope will be to "tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges of our ti…
Leslie Baehr
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A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An Ancient Star Cluster
Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (…