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The First Full Hypercolor Map Of Mercury Is Stunning [GIF]
By stitching thousands of these images together, scientists created the first complete map of Mercu…
Jennifer Welsh
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Most space charts leave out the most important part - all of the space
This is because they're not to scale: It's easier to clump everything together so that all of the p…
Kelly Dickerson
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840 new planets have been discovered beyond Neptune and its the single largest finding till date
We all know that the universe is vast, but we don’t know exactly how vast it is. But humans don’t b…
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The best map of our galaxy ever created shows where we are in relation to 1.7 billion stars
Everything the spacecraft has observed and catalogued so far will eventually help build a detailed …
Kevin Loria
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Google Maps lets you explore the cosmos like Star Trek — complete with a warp drive ‘whoosh’
Google Maps can really take you anywhere — including outer space. To make sure the experience feels…
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The solar eclipse will make cities as dark as other planets and moons - see which world you'll be 'standing' on
The map below shows precisely which world you can pretend you're standing on. It was created by Mic…
Dave Mosher
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A weird, cigar-shaped object flew through the solar system last year. Now astronomers may know where it came from.
By comparing the historic path of 'Oumuamua against these millions of stars, the team discovered fo…
Dave Mosher
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NASA Releases The First-Ever Images Of Our Solar System's Tail
IBEX uses a technique called energetic neutral atom imaging. The instrument collects neutral atoms …
Dina Spector
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The most detailed map of the moon's geology ever released may help astronauts explore the lunar surface
Researchers at the US Geological Survey combined six flat maps and data from two spacecraft to crea…
Holly Secon
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How to find out if you might miss the solar eclipse because of bad weather
Solar eclipses look different depending on the location. On August 21, the total solar eclipse will…
Leanna Garfield
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Here's What It Means When NASA Says Voyager 1 Is In Interstellar Space
The scale is in astronomical units (AU). One AU is equal to the Earth's distance from the sun - abo…
Kelly Dickerson
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A little-known feature in Google Maps lets you explore our local solar system - here's how to visit Mercury, Venus, and other planets and moons in Google Maps
Using Google Maps is a great way to learn more about the various cities and countries around the wo…
Dave Smith
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A 100-year solar storm could fry our power grids - these are the places most at risk
During a magnetotelluric survey, crews stick big electrodes into the soil, record the signal with r…
Dave Mosher
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Animated map of the solar system shows just how far humans have explored space
This year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit …
Rob Ludacer,Rob Ludacer
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Planets and moons are now part of Google Maps - here are 6 incredible worlds you must explore
There's no search box within "Planets," so it's difficult to, say, find the Apollo mission landing …
Dave Mosher
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The sun poses a crippling yet little-known threat to Minnesota - here's what is at stake
"I can't tell you a power grid is going to be taken down in a certain place with a certain [geomagn…
Dave Mosher,Andy Kiersz
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Tesla and SolarCity are dealing with a critical business problem
This is important for a couple of reasons. First, Tesla and SolarCity, as a combined company, will …
Matthew DeBord
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Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon for the first time
"Built at the U R Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO in Bengaluru, CLASS provides clean signatures…