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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth is about to get a 2nd moon, for 57 days only. Here's what you need to know.
A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-b…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has a plan for mini nuclear reactors on the moon which could one day power a lunar colony
NASA aims to send humans back to the moon within the decade and they'll need a reliable power sourc…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth has a new ‘mini-moon’ — and it’s not the first
The Moon isn’t the only space rock orbiting the Earth. A new mini-moon was spotted circling the pla…
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Astronomers photographed a possible 'mini-moon' orbiting Earth - though it might just be space debris
Astronomers were able to create the composite photograph of the mini-moon above - which shows it as…
Holly Secon
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Photos and video show how NASA stacked its next moon rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty
NASA's Space Launch System is finally standing tall at the Kennedy Space Center, after years of del…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk's SpaceX has accepted dogecoin as payment for a Moon mission
SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted: "Mission paid for in Doge. 1st crypto in space. 1st meme in space…
Harry Robertson
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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A TikToker created a mini living room for his dogs, complete with couches, a bar cart, and a TV
Ben Mazer told Insider he wanted to create the mini living room so his dogs wouldn't run around and…
Celia Fernandez
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An astronomer's colorful animation shows how Saturn's disappearing rings act like a 'mini solar system'
If you unfurled Saturn's rings into lines, all the planets in the solar system could line up comfor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Dogecoin slides 10% after Elon Musk's SpaceX launches the first doge-funded satellite 'DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon'
Musk's commercial-rocket firm will take off on a moon mission in 2022 carrying a mini-satellite use…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Celebrities and politicians are joining Buzz Aldrin in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
"Looking back, landing on the moon wasn't just our job, it was a historic opportunity to prove to t…
Travis Clark
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China just made history by being the first to ever land on the far side of the moon
Chang'e-4 landed in Von Karman a flat landscape that sits inside: South Pole-Aitken basin. The basi…
Jessica Orwig
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SURPRISE: Earth has two moons
Things started out with a hot and heavy crash, and the two of you get all tangled up with one anoth…
Rafi Letzter
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Alia Bhatt took a mini-vacation to Spain and it looks like all kinds of fun
Only if we could also take a vacay!
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Vote To Name One Of Pluto's Moons 'Styx'
That's great, but what really excited me was that among the names inspired by Greek and Roman Mytho…
Jennifer Welsh
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A superstar ex-Facebook and Google exec is trying to upend a $6B industry with mini-MRIs you can use at home-and she's already testing the technology on animals
Jeff Huber, the vice chairman and founding CEO of $1.6 billion cancer-detecting Silicon Valley star…
Erin Brodwin
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are ‘leaking’ radiation into protected wavelength bands and this can indirectly impact WiFi and GPS!
In an age of rapid satellite deployment, the sky above is not just getting more crowded but also be…
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Using the Webb telescope, scientists may have found the ‘best bet’ for an ocean world outside our solar system!
Among all known temperate exoplanets, this is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming …