Located in the southern sky is the small Chamaeleon constellation, an asterism that was first defined in the 16th century.
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A research team from Arizona State University is developing a seismometer that could be mounted a lander mission to Europa to listen to its interior
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The Super Telescopes are set to advance our understanding of the Universe, and it can all be traced back to Galileo.
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NASA's LUVOIR, the Large Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Surveyor, is the future of Super Telescopes. It's 15m mirror will dwarf the Hubble and James Webb.
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So, are you excited for the 2017 movie season? U.S. Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us, and that means big ticket, explosion-laden sci-fi flicks and reboots/sequels. Lots of sequels. We recently got a chance to check out Alien: Covenant opening Thursday, May 18th as the second prequel and the seventh (if you count 2004's Alien vs. Predator) in the Alien franchise.
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Measuring about 91 billion light years in diameter and being 13.8 billion years old, the Universe encompasses all matter, energy, time and space in existence.
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In the coming weeks, the Cassini probe will getting a better glimpse at the hexagonal storm around its northern polar region, as part of its Grand Finale
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A Near Earth Object (NEO) passed Earth at a distance of about 3.7 Lunar Distances on May 8th, 2017, passing Earth by a wide margin.
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The stars look static in the sky, but are they moving? How fast, and how do we know? What events can make them move faster, and how can humans make them move?
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Have you been following the Springtime parade of bright comets? Thus far, the Oort cloud has offered up several fine binocular comets, including Comet 2/P Encke, 41/P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, 45/P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE and C/2017 E4 Lovejoy. Now, another comet joins the dawn ranks, as it brightens up ahead of expectations: 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS.
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For the past few decades, scientists have been of the opinion that beneath its swirling clouds of gas, Jupiter may have a solid core.
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Located 10.5 light years away, and filled with asteroid belts and a debris disk, the Epsilon Eridani system is basically what our Solar System was like when it was young
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This week SpaceX blasted their first top secret surveillance satellite to orbit for America's spy chiefs at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - affording magnificent viewing and imagery from the Florida Space Coast.
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To ensure that their Pleiades supercomputer can keep up with future missions, NASA and TopCoder are hosting the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.
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