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This freezing cold isolated block of ice is the best place on Earth for a telescope
In the far reaches of Antarctica, scientists have found the plateau that offers the clearest view o…
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Working in Antarctica sometimes means using 'pee bottles' as some buildings have no indoor plumbing, said one person there
Some outbuildings have rudimentary toilets, but they need to be emptied - so some working long hour…
Marianne Guenot
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2 workers at a remote Antarctic research station describe life cut off from the world, from extreme cold to chips that never go stale
Staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station are about as far from civilization as you can be. Bu…
Marianne Guenot
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A telescope submerged nearly a mile underwater in the world's deepest lake is hunting for ghostly particles from space
A telescope underwater in Russia's Lake Baikal is looking for neutrinos - particles that can pass t…
Aylin Woodward
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A car-size asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn't see it coming
The asteroid, known as 2020 GQ or ZTF0DxQ, flew so close to Earth that it's now the closest known e…
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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How scientists use a giant telescope in Antarctica to study the strangest particle in the universe
Their discovery was a testament to extreme science. Not only did the researchers make a remarkable …
Jessica Orwig
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A ghostly particle detected in Antarctica has led astronomers to a super-massive spinning black hole called a 'blazar'
Researchers detected the "ghost" particle, or neutrino, in September 2017 using IceCube, a huge arr…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists in Antarctica use an age-old trick to have fresh eggs year round
"If you oil eggs with normal cooking oil, you can keep them at room temperature up to a year," Robe…
Kelly Dickerson
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Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Solving A 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cosmic Rays
The origin of cosmic rays, and what could be accelerating the particles in them, has been a mystery…
Dina Spector
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Partial lunar eclipse on Oct 28 – When, where and how to watch
Lunar eclipse happens when the sun, earth and the moon align in a straight line. Sky watchers are g…
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The first solar eclipse of 2022 – everything you need to know
Sky gazers and astrologists eagerly await eclipses and a few solar and lunar eclipses happen in a t…
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The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here's their groundbreaking image.
"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an …
Aria Bendix
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An asteroid is acting like a comet — confirming what scientists have speculated for years
Asteroid 2019 LD2 isn't your typical space rock, and it's not acting like it either.
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An asteroid will block the brightest star in the night sky on Monday, and astronomers need your help seeing it
"If you are the lucky one to have the path go over your location, the star will fade over a period …
Dave Mosher
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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 'Thoroughly Bizarre' Eclipse Is Happening Next Week
An annular solar eclipse is different than a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the entir…
Dina Spector
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4 Scientific Achievements Everyone Will Be Talking About In 2014
If 2013 was the year of the Higgs boson, then 2014 will be the year of the neutrino. The nearly mas…
Dina Spector
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5 undeniable reasons humans need to colonize Mars - even though it's going to cost billions
Of course, it's extremely difficult to foresee how manned missions to Mars that would cost hundreds…
Jessica Orwig
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President Obama's senior space science adviser just said "Mars matters" - here's 5 undeniable reasons why he's right
During its first three years in space, NASA's prized Hubble Space Telescope snapped blurry pictures…