What if the Earth just stopped dead in its tracks while orbiting the Sun? It would plummet straight down of course, but how long would it take to actually crash into the Sun?
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Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the new world.
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Construction has just finished on the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope
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As part of Juno's mission to Jupiter, Lego has fashioned three figurines (representing Jupiter, Juno and Galileo) to accompany the probe on its mission
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Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water vapor. This is the first time water clouds have been detected outside of our Solar System.
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An international trio of astronauts and cosmonauts representing the United States, Russia and Japan blasted off in the early morning Kazakh hours today, July 7, for a new mission of science and discovery on the International Space Station (ISS).
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According to a recent study from Cornell University, the prebiotic conditions for life might exist on Titan, despite it being cold and having no water
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In the outer region of our Solar System lie four giant planets - also known as Jovians. And beyond our Sun, thousands more are being found...
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The Moon makes a close pass near Jupiter this weekend and occults it for observers in the southern Indian Ocean region.
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Based on our current growth in energy usage, how long will it take before we use up all the energy of our planet, of our star, or even all the energy in our galaxy?
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Since time immemorial, humans have known that the Sun will rise in the east and set in the west. But why exactly does it happen this way?
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Located between 5,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth is the Omega Nebula, one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions in our galaxy
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A recently released catalogue showing the results of a Herschel survey has revealed how stars have cleaned the universe over billions of years
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Our guide to earth at aphelion for July 4th, 2016.
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On July 4th, the Juno spacecraft - the second long-term mission to Jupiter - will arrive at the gas giant, and begin to shed light its many mysteries
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In an 'Independence Day' gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing missions to continue for another two years this holiday weekend.
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As part of China's Chang'e-4 lunar mission. a new radio antenna being developed in the Netherlands will be deployed to the far side of the Moon in 2018
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One of the strangest implications of Relativity is the concept of time dilation; how people moving at different speeds will experience different amounts of time. Dr. Brian Koberlein helps us figure it out.
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New chemical science findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate that ancient Mars likely had a higher abundance of molecular oxygen in its atmosphere compared to the present day and was thus more hospitable to life forms, if they ever existed.
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At the annual National Astronomy Meeting, members of the Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) team shared images that are the deepest view of the Universe yet
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Sonny Giroux, Program Manager for NASA's Deep Space Network, explains how Juno uses the Network to communicate, and some of the unique challenges Juno poses.
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Blue Origin and its founder Jeff Bezos do a little one-upmanship on the old saying, "go big or go home." With the groundbreaking of their new orbital vehicle manufacturing complex, they are going big AND going home, building a home for Very Big Brother, the unofficial name of their rocket.
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In preparation for Juno's arrival at Jupiter, a team from the European Southern Observatory is creating a breathtaking infrared map of Jupiter
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At the upcoming Starmus science conference, Professor Stephen Hawking will unveil the most ambitious plan to map the known universe to date
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The world's most powerful booster that will one day propel NASA astronauts on exciting missions of exploration to deep space destinations including the Moon and Mars was successfully ignited this morning, June 28, during an awesome ground test firing on a remote mountainside in Utah, that qualifies it for an inaugural blastoff in late 2018.
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Asteroid Itokawa had a sometimes violent 4.5 billion year history, according to samples returned by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.
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Now just 7 days out from a critical orbital insertion burn, NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno orbiter is closing in fast on the massive gas giant. And as its coming into focus the spacecraft has begun snapping a series of beautiful images of the biggest planet and its biggest moons.
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Based on recent experiments led by a Dutch research team and MarsOne, we now know which crops can be grown on the Red Planet
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Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers are about to observe the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, which will test Einstein's theory of General Relativity like never before
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Today's (June 24) spectacular launch of the most powerful version of the venerable Atlas V rocket from the sunshine state completes the orbital deployment of a constellation of advanced tactical communications satellites for the U.S. Navy.
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Orbital images of Mars can provide useful information on the changing nature of the Martian surface. And eye candy too!
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Minor planets like Chariklo are good at keeping their ring systems away from larger planets, and we are beginning to understand why
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The long awaited maiden launch of Orbital ATK's revamped Antares commercial rocket utilizing new first stage engines, from its Virginia launch base, will likely slip from July to August, a company spokesperson confirmed to Universe Today.
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According to Boeing, the first test launch of its Starliner crew capsule will take place in February 2018, a four month delay from its original date of October 2017.
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With the 2030s approaching, and an impending election, NASA needs to redouble its efforts to make a crewed mission to Mars happen
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Port Canaveral is considering a hefty raise to the fees it charges SpaceX for handling recovered boosters.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — The pancaked leftovers of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage from last week's successful commercial launch but hard landing at sea, pulled silently and without fanfare into its home port over the weekend - thereby ending a string of three straight spectacular and upright soft ocean landings over the past two months.
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A transient third Van Allen belt was first observed in 2013, and new research explains how it was formed.
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The planets of our Solar System vary considerably, with some being a fraction of Earth's diameter, and others many times its size
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Located in the Pegasus constellation, some 33,600 light years from Earth, is the M15 Great Pegasus Cluster, one of the oldest objects in the night sky
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Today marks the June solstice, as the Sun passes highest in the sky for observers across the northern hemisphere. Here's our post on 'all things solstice,' with facts, lore and more.
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