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A European-Japanese spacecraft snapped the clearest photo of Mercury in 6 years as it flew past the planet
The BepiColombo spacecraft just flew past Mercury - its ultimate destination - for the first time. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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And Incredible View Of What It's Like To Rocket Away From Earth [VIDEO]
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity a…
Jennifer Welsh
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NASA is going to purposely crash a $446 million spacecraft into Mercury at breakneck speeds
This isn't the first time NASA has crash landed a spacecraft. In fact, this method of disposing exp…
Jessica Orwig
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5 times scientists thought they may have discovered aliens
UFOs aren't screaming "aliens" to scientists. Close calls in the hunt for extraterrestrials include…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua was a chunk of planet from another solar system, a new study says
Some astronomers think space object 'Oumuamua could have been an alien spaceship. But new research …
Aylin Woodward
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A NASA satellite revealed what a lunar eclipse looks like from Mercury
A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon are directly aligned, and the moon's…
Jeremy Berke
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The bizarre interstellar object 'Oumuamua that flew through our solar system was almost definitely not aliens, a new study says
The limits of information gathered about the object left room for scientists to offer guesses about…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher
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Mysterious space objects like 'Oumuamua will visit our solar system again. Scientists may intercept the next one with a robotic probe.
In November 2017, Trilling and others published a study suggesting that current telescopes may see …
Dave Mosher
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A weird, cigar-shaped object flew through the solar system last year. Now astronomers may know where it came from.
By comparing the historic path of 'Oumuamua against these millions of stars, the team discovered fo…
Dave Mosher
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Epically detailed photos of Mercury
On Thursday April 30, NASA will crash land the spacecraft into the planet, leaving a 50-foot-wide c…
Jessica Orwig
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This Is What Earth Looks Like From 900 Million Miles Away
In the meantime, the spacecraft has already beamed back to Earth tons of raw images from the event …
Dina Spector
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The First Full Hypercolor Map Of Mercury Is Stunning [GIF]
By stitching thousands of these images together, scientists created the first complete map of Mercu…
Jennifer Welsh
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A bizarre interstellar object called 'Oumuamua continues to perplex astronomers a year after it vanished. Here's why a few scientists still wonder if it was alien.
However, Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory, told Business Insid…
Dave Mosher
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The 10 most important things in the world right now
1. US Senator Ted Cruz announced he would name former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his runn…
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Mercury Is Shrinking
The starting point for the measurement is the end of the "late heavy bombardment" of the Solar Syst…