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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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An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet
All planetary systems have a barycenter, a point where their mass is balanced. In the Earth-moon sy…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.
The world now has its first asteroid samples. A Japanese spacecraft bombed asteroid Ryugu to collec…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX says 'all systems are go' to launch NASA's longest, most ambitious astronaut mission yet on Sunday night
NASA this week certified SpaceX's rocket and spaceship. Weather permitting, the company will launch…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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A scientist's simple animation shows why there won't be a way to communicate with astronauts on Mars in real time
Even radio waves and lasers have to travel at the speed of light — which means a serious delay in c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A scientist's quick animation reveals that Earth has two types of day. Humans use the one that's 4 minutes longer.
Earth doesn't take a full 24 hours to spin on its axis — but humans use the sun to measure days. Th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX showed it can safely ferry astronauts to and from space. In September, it'll launch 4 more — here's who's next.
The success of Space-X's Demo-2 mission tees up six more missions to and from the space station. He…
Susie Neilson
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NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, whose husband just flew on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, will pilot the spaceship in the spring
Astronaut Megan McArthur watched her husband, Bob Behnken, launch and land aboard the Crew Dragon s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center — and it's not the sun
Jupiter, Saturn, and the sun play a constant game of tug-of-war around the invisible center of our …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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A simple animation by two scientists reveals what Earth's surface is made of — and how we only see 0.5% of the planet
Earth's surface, where all known life exists, makes up only 0.49% of its mass. Just below, the mant…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A simple animation by a planetary scientist reveals what would happen without leap years: December would eventually drift into summer
O'Donoghue spends his free time making animations of astronomy concepts like the moon's retreat fro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA slowly drains the oceans in an incredible animation, revealing hidden underwater mountain ranges and ancient land bridges
O'Donoghue works at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and was formerly at NASA. For the video, he to…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An incredible animation by a planetary scientist shows how fast each planet spins by putting them in one giant globe
As one commenter pointed out on Twitter, it can be weird to watch Africa and South America making t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A stunning animation by a planetary scientist shows how huge our solar system is - and why that makes it so hard to depict
James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and formerly at NASA, r…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon. But that would turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape.
"We could expect a similar scenario on Earth. Initially, Earth's mantle and crust would be gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.
"People often talk about how we are standing on a ball (Earth) which rotates at great speed, and th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The International Space Station is getting the scrap, and Elon Musk's SpaceX is being paid close to $1 billion to do the honors
NASA has tasked Elon Musk's SpaceX with deorbiting the International Space Station as it nears reti…
Aditi Bharade
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Toyota and Japan’s space agency have an ambitious plan for people to live on the moon by 2040
A future where we’re living on the moon and even Mars is what space companies and agencies are ambi…