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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How to see Comet A3, which could be the best comet in a decade. Neanderthals walked the Earth last time it flew by.
Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. It'll be visible across the Northern Hemisp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth victorious, making huge gains in Elon Musk's plans to send humans to Mars
The Polaris missions are helping fast-track Elon Musk's Mars city, from testing spacesuits and a sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Another point for life on Mars: Signs of liquid water discovered under the planet's surface
NASA's InSight lander measured Marsquakes, and now its data is hinting there's a reservoir of liqui…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How Austin's real-estate boom went bust
Home prices and rents are down significantly in Austin, a pandemic-era boomtown. But the slowdown i…
James Rodriguez
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We put Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars up against Jeff Bezos' vision of living in space — and one is more realistic
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of colonizing space, but have very different ideas of how to do it. …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Mars will appear bigger, redder, and brighter tonight before dimming for another 25 years
Mars will be at its brightest tonight, on October 13. And the Red Planet will not appear this brigh…
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A supernova that exploded in a nearby galaxy is one of the brightest in a decade. Here's how to see it.
The supernova, named SN 2023ixf, is located 21 million light-years away. It should remain visible w…
Marianne Guenot
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Space elevators could get us to Mars in record time — and Japan is planning one for 2050
Space elevators are just theoretical at this point, but a Japanese company hopes to build one in th…
Jenny McGrath
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Average housing prices up 10% in Jan-Mar across the top eight cities
The average housing prices appreciated 10% annually across the top eight cities during January-Marc…
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NASA will pay 4 health-conscious 'astronaut-like' people to live inside a Mars simulation for 378 days. See if you qualify.
NASA opened applications for people to live a paid year in its CHAPEA Mars simulation. The job requ…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An engineer who lived in NASA's Mars simulation for 378 days went through extreme isolation but still said he'd go to the red planet for real if he could
Ross Brockwell spent a year in NASA's CHAPEA Mars simulation. He missed Earth but would live on the…
Jenny McGrath
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A mysterious hole on Mars could be a jackpot of scientific discoveries, from extraterrestrial life to where astronauts could live
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a hole on Mars in 2022 that recently resurfaced, reigniti…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Sandy Hook victim's brother is 'shocked' that a letter Trump once sent him turned up in a Mar-a-Lago evidence photo
Trump sent JT Lewis a condolence letter in 2018. A draft of the letter was among keepsakes prosecu…
Laura Italiano
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Another Tesla shareholder came out against Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar pay package, saying the billionaire should 'focus on going to Mars'
Another major Tesla investor is publicly opposing Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package days before i…
Erin Snodgrass
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Mars could be creating 'giant whirlpools' deep within our planet's oceans
Scientists claim the red planet's gravitational pull may be strong enough to move sediments on Eart…
Marianne Guenot
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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism
Bill Ackman used plagiarism charges in pushing to remove Harvard's president, Claudine Gay. But new…
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham
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See Elon Musk's Starship shredding apart as it descends to Earth, with a whole fin almost ripping off
Starship started falling apart as it plummeted into the ocean. But Elon Musk and SpaceX still consi…