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Tag: Space
NASA fixes Voyager 2 from over 11 billion miles away
NASA provides the ultimate hotfix.
Astronomers capture the most detailed image of the sun
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
Oldest material on Earth is stardust found in meteorite
The dust grains were formed 5 to 7 billion years ago.
NASA planet-hunting satellite finds its first Earth-sized alien world
The exoplanet orbits a star in the habitable zone and may be covered in oceans.
Mineral never before seen in nature is discovered in a meteorite from 1951
A rare form of an iron-carbide mineral was found by researchers
A clock error spoiled NASA’s Christmas mission — but the craft just landed, safe and sound
The mission was a bust -- but we got the spaceship back!
Lunar dirt can be broken down into oxygen and metals
This study rocks.
Musk unveils SpaceX’s Starship on livestream
We musk spread the word!
The ISS now has better internet than most houses on Earth
Sending data from the International Space Station to Earth just got much faster -- NASA was able to double the ...
The different types of planets barreling through space
Yes, Pluto is here too.
Spitzer confirms: no atmosphere on nearby exoplanet
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
Water bears reach the moon after lunar crash probe
The moon used to be sterile for billions of years -- until humans came along.
Space station mold can survive 200 times more radiation than you or me
Researchers plan to employ them as producers of food, antibiotics, other materials for astronauts on deep space missions.
NASA requests $1 billion in funding for Artemis mission to take man back to the moon by 2024
The original timeline was pushed forward four years by the Trump Administration -- and now NASA needs the bucks to ...
Bright galaxies help solve mystery about early universe
They were much brighter than they were supposed to be.
The International Space Station is teeming with bacteria and fungi
Step 1: live on hairless primate. Step 2: wait for said primate to go to space. Step 3: PROFIT!
Bacteria coaxed into making high-performance proteins for space missions
The National Aeronautics and Spider Silk Administration is very excited about this study.
Steam Power Might Help in Space Exploration
NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.
Researchers find black hole that spins almost as fast as (we think) they can spin
Hope it won't get dizzy and stumble our way!
Saturn’s rings are raining down — in about 100 million years, they’ll be gone
If you like it then you should have kept the rings on it.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found on the ISS — they’ve been up there for at least two years
In space, no one can hear you sneeze.
Scientists create a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time
That's just colored water in the picture.
Twelve new moons discovered around Jupiter, pointing to a violent past
Jupiter can boast the most moons in the Solar System.
The constellation Vela explodes with color (and new suns) in ESO-captured snaps
Space -- the prettiest frontier.
Enceladus “the only body besides Earth to satisfy all of the basic requirements for life,” Cassini reveals
This small moon has huge potential.
The International Space Station just launched a harpoon-toting satellite to keep it safe from space junk
Few problems will persist after a generous application of stabbings.
New, powerful laser system proposed for the International Space Station’s defense
The station is in serious peril from all the junk we've left in orbit.
Flock of 14 colliding galaxies set to become the largest structure in the universe
It's quite possibly one of the most massive objects in the universe.
NASA is sending sperm to the ISS — here’s why
The first step to making spacebabies is to know if we can actually do it.
Scientists harvest first batch of Antarctic vegetables
Growing foods, at ungodly temperatures, without any soil or sunlight -- strike one for science!
Astronomers discover a clump of black holes around our galaxy’s center
For the first time, astronomers have managed to confirm the existence of a black hole population surrounding the core of ...
Gravitational waves might be created at the centre of most galaxies
Looks like we can expect more gravitational waves in the near future.
Researchers map out the age of the Milky Way’s “heart”
Our galaxy still holds many secrets.
15 new planets discovered — one is potentially habitable
Three of the newly-discovered planets are so-called super-Earths.
Breakthrough in the search for dark matter from the first ever stars
It's an exciting time to be a scientist.
NASA could have an orbiting moon base by 2023
It's like an ISS, but for the Moon!
Neptune’s Great Dark Spot is also shrinking
Another one bites the dust.
New research shows that the TRAPPIST-1 planets are even more Earth-like than we thought
We know these planets better than any others outside our solar system.
Cosmonaut blood reveals that our immune systems grind to a halt in space
This is definitely Not Good™.
Space might be teeming with viruses that we’re not looking for, but we should
When the very large can't be found, maybe it's time to look for the very small.
Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?
US brewery wants to make beer on Mars — so they’re space-testing barley seeds next week
How do you go 'bottoms up' when there's no 'up' in space?!
Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared
The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.
Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions
Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.
Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday
Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.
After record number of applications, NASA announces the future generation of astronauts
Take a good look at these people. A few years from now, they will be conducting research off the Earth ...
We’ve (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios
Can your Internet landline do this? No.
