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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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It should take another 300 years for NASA's Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars.
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012 and is drifting through interstellar space at the edge of …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Solar eclipse (Surya Grahan) June 2020 date, time and schedule
Solar and lunar eclipses are spectacular events that highly interest the sky viewers. A solar e…
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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Have sex, sit on animals or just go to bed - busting myths around the do's and don'ts of lunar eclipse
Ancient cultures and societies had their own theories as to when the Moon disappeared from the nigh…
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Google Doodle is celebrating Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th birthday — the father of Indian space programme
Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of an Indian scientist Dr Vikram Sarabhai on Monday, with …
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Elon Musk wants to live on Mars, but this planetary scientist says that's a terrible idea
Titan, on the other hand, has got this natural shielding device, which is its nice thick atmosphere…
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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NASA scientists created 21 new constellations for the invisible night sky - including Albert Einstein, Godzilla, and Starship Enterprise
What we see is only a rainbow of visible light: a limited slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, an…
Dave Mosher
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The way we might protect ourselves from an exploding star could help us find alien civilizations
Ice is plentiful in space. The Kuiper Belt, on the outer edges of our solar system, is full of it. …
Kevin Loria
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Apollo astronauts are more likely to suffer heart problems, and we need to figure out why before we go back into deep space
The scientists believe that these effects are because of high-energy radiation like cosmic rays and…
Ali Sundermier
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Astronomers are listening for alien signals from a weird object that's flying through the solar system
"'Oumuamua's presence within our solar system affords Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach u…
Dave Mosher
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Mars colonists will get blasted with radiation levels 8 times higher than government limits - here's what they're up against
More radical solutions for radiation have also been proposed. Christopher Mason, a geneticist and b…
Dave Mosher,Skye Gould
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A record label is about to start shipping vinyl copies of NASA's famous golden records
"The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan," NASA's Je…
Dave Mosher
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How a Russian spacecraft - thrown together at the last minute - changed the course of history
Today's astronauts travel no farther than low-earth orbit, where the International Space Station fl…
Jessica Orwig
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The insane ways the human body changes during long-term spaceflight
Astronauts undergo a rigorous psychological screening before they can even start training for space…
Kelly Dickerson
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Astronomers just saw a black hole blow something incredible into space with tremendous force
By scanning the sky for powerful, sudden bursts of bright radiation - indicative of supernovae - th…
Jessica Orwig
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This is NASA's audacious plan to land humans on Mars within your lifetime
To give them something important to do, NASA is launching an uncrewed mission called OSIRIS-REx to …
Rebecca Harrington
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Elon Musk says he'll colonize Mars - but the closest we've come was this grand experiment in the Arizona desert 25 years ago
Ultimately, colonists may try to terraform Mars - a deliberate and unprecedented act of climate cha…
Dave Mosher
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String Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It
"I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too…
Gus Lubin
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What Happens When You Enter A Black Hole?
In Christopher Nolan's latest film, "Interstellar," actor Matthew McConaughey dives into a black ho…