Elon Musk announced the new Interplanetary Transport Ship on Monday. That night, Scott Manley recreated the spacecraft and booster in Kerbal Space Program.
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Images taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft have shown features on Mercury's surface that indicate that the planet is still tectonically active
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Absolute Zero is the coldest possible temperature, the point at which you can no longer extract any energy from a system. How close have we gotten to this lowest of lows?
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A total eclipses is an amazing sight, occurring whenever the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth (or the Earth between the Sun and Moon) and totally obscures the incoming light.
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Today, NASA announced that images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown more evidence of water plumes on Europa's surface, bolstering evidence of a warm water ocean in its interior and providing opportunities for future study.
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The month of October is upon us this weekend, and with it, one of the better meteor showers is active: the Orionids.
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The northern lights are an amazing thing to behold, and can be seen regularly from locations spanning from Siberia and Alaska to Northern Canada and Scandinavia.
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A powerful explosion on an otherwise obscure star in the constellation Lupus is now bright enough to see in binoculars.
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Our beyond magnificent Curiosity rover has just finished her latest Red Planet drilling campaign - at the rock target called "Quela" - into the simply unfathomable alien landscapes she is currently exploring at the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. And it's all in a Sols (or Martian Day's) work for our intrepid Curiosity!
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Like everything else in the Universe, stars come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and colors, and three of which are interconnected.
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The Rosetta comet probe will leave its flyover orbit today to prepare for its dramatic free-fall descent to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G on Friday morning Sept. 30.
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Debris flows are fast-moving landslides made up of liquefied, unconsolidated, and saturated mass. They are one of the most dangerous natural hazards in the world today.
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Investigators have determined that a "large breach" in the second stage helium system likely triggered the catastrophic Falcon 9 launch pad explosion that suddenly destroyed the rocket and Israeli commercial payload during a routine fueling test three weeks ago, SpaceX announced today, Friday, Sept. 23.
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Bad news, our Sun is living on borrowed time. It's only got a few billion years left. But there might be a way we can extend its life, and make it last for trillions of years into the future.
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With the recent passage of the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2016, NASA can look forward to financial stability in the coming year
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Using data from the PS1 survey, an international team of researchers has made some interesting discoveries about Neptune's Trojan asteroids
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