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Elon Musk said SpaceX's offshore launch platform called 'Deimos' is under construction for launch next year
The platform is intended to be used as a launch and landing platform for the SpaceX Starship, a spa…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Mars may have had a giant ring billions of years ago, new research suggests
The strange orbit of Mars' moon suggests that the planet may have pulled moons toward it in the pas…
Holly Secon
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Mars's sad, potato-shaped moon eclipsing the sun shown in NASA video. Be glad you're on Earth for this weekend's solar eclipse.
A solar eclipse, when the moon blocks the sun, looks spectacular from Earth. From Mars, it's a litt…
Jenny McGrath
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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
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SpaceX is converting an oil rig into a floating launch pad in the ocean for its Starship rocket in Mississippi
One of SpaceX's oil rigs, Phobos, is now located in Pascagoula, a city in Jackson County, Mississip…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX may have purchased 2 oil rigs off the coast of Texas that could be turned into 'floating' Starship launchpads
Elon Musk has tweeted about floating 'spaceports' for SpaceX before, and it looks like the company …
Annabelle Williams
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Top Stories this AM: More calls for lab leak investigation; Texas voting bill blocked; Cruz in Israel
Another prominent scientist has joined a growing number of experts calling for investigations into …
INSIDER
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10 things in tech: Elon's tweets, Venmo update, Cybertruck facial recognition
Tech's biggest power couples, Venmo's new privacy update, Tesla's Cybertruck might have facial reco…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Satellite images reveal what Russia's World Cup stadiums look like from space
That's just one of 12 stadiums that teams from 32 countries will be playing at during the World Cup…
Kevin Loria
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This satellite photo of Harvey's flooding reveals the scope of the disaster from space
Drag the slider on the image below to compare before-and-after images; the left pane shows a Google…
Dave Mosher
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Incredible new satellite photos reveal Antarctica's huge iceberg in stunning detail
The block of ice, dubbed iceberg A-68, may hang around for years in the open sea and is awesome in …
Dave Mosher
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ISRO's MOM captures Mars' biggest moon that's on a collision course for the Red Planet
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has captured the Red Pla…
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Satellite images of rivers reveal humanity's abusive relationship with the world's most precious resource
"I think rivers are treated as a renewable resource when they're really not," John Bolten, a hydrol…
Dave Mosher
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Incredible satellite photos show Texas before and after Harvey flooded the region
On Thursday, however, companies like Deimos Imaging, UrtheCast, and DigitalGlobe - which operate sa…
Dave Mosher
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Incredible satellite photos show Florida and the Caribbean before and after Irma battered the regions
A Citi analyst estimates that costs could top $50 billion in the US. Though FEMA est…
Leanna Garfield
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Astronauts may wear eight-legged 'spider' spacesuits to crawl on the moons of Mars
"From a technology development point of view, particularly for an orbital mission, we have almost e…
Dave Mosher
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What the Rio Olympic stadiums look like from space
UrtheCast, which gets its footage from high definition cameras (Iris and Deimos-2 sensors) attached…
Will Heilpern,Will Heilpern
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Incredible satellite photos of Southern California's wildfires show the disaster's evolution from space
The new blazes have triggered the evacuation of almost 100,000 people, killed at least one person, …
Dave Mosher
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Natural phenomena you can see in the film 'The Martian' that you won't find in the book
These beautiful phenomena are real and not just an aesthetically appealing addition for moviegoers.…
Jessica Orwig
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These satellite photos reveal the scorched Earth that ISIS is leaving behind in the battle for Mosul
"The smoke covers part of the city Qayyarah, about 35 miles south of the city of Mosul, along the W…