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Researchers at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak facility in Hefei, China, claim that they have reached a major milestone in fusion power
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Looking for a cosmic way to say "I love you" this Valentine's Day? Let Mars, Pluto and Bennu help you out.
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The Obama Administration has announced its new Federal budget and is proposing to cut NASA's Fiscal Year 2017 Budget to $19 billion by carving away significant funding for deep space exploration, whereas the overall US Federal budget actually increases to over $4.1 trillion.
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These beautiful, retro-style posters from NASA recall the glory days of space tourism. That haven't happened yet.
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During the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod Competition, Elon Musk commented on the possibility of Hyperloop on Mars
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A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.
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The discovery of gravitational waves generated by the collision of two massive black holes could revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
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On Feb. 6th a bus driver in India was reportedly struck and killed by a falling meteorite. Did this really happen? Almost certainly not. We look at the details.
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In the third and final article in our gravitational wave guide, we explain what kinds of events can generate these powerful ripples in spacetime.
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The discovery of hundreds of galaxies, hidden from view behind the Milky Way, help shed light on the nature of The Great Attractor.
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Time to brush up on your gravitational wave basics, if you haven't done so! In Gravitational waves and how they distort space, I had a look at what gravitational waves do. Now, on to the next step: How can we measure what they do? How do gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO work?
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Astrophysicists using the Kepler Spacecraft have discovered the largest rocky planet yet: BD+20594b is 16 times as massive as Earth.
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Also known as NGC 7089, Messier 2 is a large globular star cluster located in the constellation Aquarius, 33,000 light years from Earth.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida last week aboard NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft.
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Now is the time to catch sight of the asteroid 4 Vesta, as it pairs with Uranus and several stars in the early dusk sky.
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