Space
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Martian meteorites reveal clues about what’s inside the Red Planet
One day, we will bring the samples home March – but, until then, we have to make do with what…
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A mysterious hole on Mars may be a gateway to ancient life – and humanity’s future
Could this hole be humanity’s Martian home?xantuanx – Getty Images Mars is not a hospitable planet, so finding the right…
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Northern Lights: 20 Dark Sky Spots in the US for the Best Views
The northern lights or aurora borealis as seen from the shore of Lake Superior on the beach at … [+]…
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Hubble telescope maps high-speed ‘extrusions’ from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for first time
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped, for the first time ever, the plasma “burps” of a supermassive black…
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Mars has been cooked during a recent solar storm
The sun unleashed a flurry of radiation-filled explosions in May. When they crashed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was…
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The pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the laboratory
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small…
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LeoLabs wins AFWERX contract to develop next-generation radars
SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs announced plans June 13 to build a new type of radar under a $1.245 million AFWERX…
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Odysseus’ private moon plane reveals what Earth ‘technosigns’ aliens can see
Human technology such as cell phones and broadcast towers constantly radiate radio waves ROOMand astronomers estimate that this telltale sign…
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How a NASA scientist blew our minds
On a visit to The Colbert Report in 2013, the eponymous host asked NASA scientist Ed Stone if he was…
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Astronomers discover parallel disks and jets bursting from a pair of young stars
At left, a mid-infrared image of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the focus is…
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