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Scientists detected a strange space signal: what they found blew their minds
The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky shell of icy objects at the very edge of our solar system - might have ...
Remember when Pluto was a planet? Here’s 10 photos NASA took of the dwarf planet
Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...
Astronomers left disappointed as green comet meets fiery end before it can be seen
A news discovered comet, Comet SWAN, appears to have met a fiery end during its close encounter with the sun, disappointing ...
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A green comet is fading fast after its trip around the sun
A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked ...
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Fusion Rockets Could Theoretically Cut Our Travel Time to Mars in Half. This U.K. Startup Wants to Give It a Try
The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...
Proposed NASA Budget Cuts ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’
The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such ...
Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
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NASA offers $3M for invention to recycle 96 bags of astronaut poop left on the moon
NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to “recycle” dozens of bags of poop astronauts left on the moon more than half a century ago. The space agency wants to come up with ...