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A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding
Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A new image of a mysterious object careening toward our solar system strongly suggests it's the first comet from another star system
Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, first spotted C/2019 Q4 in the sky on August 30. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation
Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…
Aylin Woodward
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A rare chemical that helped DNA form may have come to Earth on comets from newborn stars, astronomers find
Astronomers had already found traces of phosphorus in data Rosetta gathered about 67P, but they had…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronauts on the International Space Station are helping to forge a bizarre form of matter that does not exist in nature
Atoms chilled to supercool temperatures form a fifth state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condens…
Aylin Woodward
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10 things in tech you need to know today
Have an Amazon Alexa device? Now you can hear 10 Things in Tech each morning. Just search for "Busi…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Despite Larry Ellison's hype, this Wall Street analyst believes Oracle will have a tough time growing unless it becomes more like Amazon
Right now, analysts say, the issue is that Oracle wants its customers to use Oracle as a solution t…
Rosalie Chan
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Oracle's revenue didn't drop like Wall Street thought it would, and the stock jumps a little
Notably, analysts were predicting Oracle's revenues to drop from the same period last year, but act…
Rosalie Chan
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How space movies have evolved over 120 years
From "A Trip to the Moon" to "Star Wars" to "The Midnight Sky," filmmakers have used evolving techn…
Ian Phillips,Ben Nigh
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Dara Khosrowshahi hits the kill switch on Uber's moonshots
In this week's edition of Insider Tech we look at Uber's spinoff spree, Elon Musk's wish for a Mars…
Alexei Oreskovic
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A cosmic 'dustbuster' has revealed a breathtaking image of stars that were previously hidden from view
But the gleaming young stars escape telescopes that see in visible light, radio waves, or infrared …
Ali Sundermier
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A meteor that struck Australia brought indestructible stardust more ancient than the sun. It's the oldest solid material ever found on Earth.
Stars form when clouds of dust collapse and heat up. They burn for billions of years then eventuall…
Aylin Woodward
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New Chemical Signals From The Middle Of Our Galaxy Are A Good Sign For Alien Life
Located 27,000 light years from Earth toward the center of our galaxy is one of the largest molecul…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA’s New Spectograph To Study Birthplace Of Stars
In deep space lies an abundance of atoms that will grow into new stars and new planets over million…
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758,000 gamers have already signed up for this crowdfunded video game with no official release date
Beyond that, Roberts is ready to take on the galaxy. In 2016, players will be able to cruise throug…
Jonathan Marino
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NASA wrapped its most famous spacecraft in aluminum kitchen foil - a last-minute move that may have saved the mission
"You're approaching this monster magnetic field, this monster radiation environment, on purpose. Be…
Dave Mosher
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Evidence of an 'alien megastructure' 1,300 light-years from Earth is rapidly turning to dust
During this effort, multiple volunteers described KIC 8462852 as an "interesting" and even "bizarre…
Dave Mosher
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NASA astronaut rates 10 space movies based on how realistic they are
The science of space movies explained. NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, formerly Director of SpaceX,…