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'This is not good': The Arecibo telescope just suffered even more damage that will set back searches for asteroids and aliens
In August, a cable at the Arecibo Observatory snapped, tearing a hole in the reflector dish. On Fri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly asteroids before they hit Earth. Here's how it could work.
"This is a great step forward for thinking about human destiny, because the dinosaurs certainly did…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Sam Adams will craft beer using hops sent into Earth's orbit on SpaceX's Inspiration4
The estimated cost to send that weight into Earth's orbit is roughly $361,000, and the resulting be…
Francis Agustin
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Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster
Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Navy is trying to get rid of its cruisers again, but it's heading for another fight over their fate
The US Navy says its cruisers are too old and too expensive, but Congress says they're too well arm…
Benjamin Brimelow
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NASA's latest pictures from Mars are fascinating — showing where the Curiosity rover is headed next
NASA’s Mars rover is on a road trip to cross 1.6 kilometres to avoid getting stuck in the sand befo…
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Astronaut says a neglected telescope is NASA's best chance of defending Earth from 'city killer' asteroids - 'for God's sake, fund it'
The NASA competition it was a part of, called Discovery, values scientific firsts - not ensuring hu…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX broke a record by launching 180 satellites in 1 month — accelerating Elon Musk's project to blanket Earth in high-speed internet
SpaceX's newest satellites sport sun visors — an effort to reduce their brightness in the night sky…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 3-Michelin star restaurant in Napa has burned down in California's latest wildfire
The Restaurant at Meadowood was engulfed by Napa Valley's Glass Fire on Monday morning and couldn't…
Anneta Konstantinides
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Jupiter got hit by a planet 10 times the mass of Earth billions of years ago, and its core is still reeling, a new study suggests
One explanation, he said, could be that those observations are showing violent, head-on collisions …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why
Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …
Dave Mosher
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ART CASHIN: Forget The Debt Ceiling - Traders Are Buzzing About The Gigantic Asteroid Barreling Towards Earth
To put that in some perspective, the moon is 240,000 miles away and several GPS satellites orbit at…
Sam Ro
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Why NASA's latest discovery of Earth 2.0 is so important in the search for life on other planets
Stars come in many different sizes and temperatures. There are giant stars, which can be tens of th…
Jessica Orwig,Andy Kiersz
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Images of North Korea's latest missile launch reveal a big problem for the US
"We know they were building to this. They got it no matter how badly we wanted to stop them. Our op…
Alex Lockie
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We're on the ground at SpaceX's launch of its biggest and most powerful rocket - here's the latest
On Monday, Musk personally visited his "monster" rocket, which stands as tall as 23-story building.…
Dave Mosher,Dana Varinsky
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Wakefield's by-election, where the Conservatives are haunted by a ghost and locals complain about bus strikes
Insider spent two days in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, speaking to the main contenders which Labour s…
Henry Dyer
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Elon Musk: 'If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt, we can probably solve Model 3 production'
At one point, Musk said the company would be producing 20,000 Model 3 vehicles per month by Decembe…
Mark Matousek
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Tiger Woods' jet landed in Augusta less than 2 weeks before the Masters, fueling speculation that the 5-time winner may play
This would be the perfect time to play some practice rounds at Augusta.
Cork Gaines
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Elon Musk's SpaceX taunts Russia at Starlink launch: 'Time to let the American broomstick fly'
Last week, Russia stopped selling rocket engines to the US and its space chief suggested the US cou…
Grace Kay
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The best cure for election anxiety is watching 'Planet Earth II' videos
But you've almost certainly made up your mind about who you are voting for already - and you may ha…