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Echoes of Chelyabinsk: Another Fireball Explodes Over Russia

Why does Russia seem to get so many bright meteors? Well at 6.6 million square miles it's by far the…

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Bill Nye on Taking Astronomy with Carl Sagan

"This is how we know nature. It is the best idea humans have ever come up with." – Bill Nye,…

10 years ago

Morpheus Flies Higher and Farther Than Ever

) NASA's Project Morpheus nailed it again today with yet another successful free flight of their prototype lander, soaring higher,…

10 years ago

Playing Marbles With The Planets

We've all seen charts showing the relative sizes of planets and moons compared to each other, which are cool to…

10 years ago

Watch Saturn Slip Behind the Moon

Or, more accurately, watch the Moon pass in front of Saturn. Either way you get the same result: a beautiful…

10 years ago

The Joy of Discovery, Featuring Bill Nye

"We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself." – Bill Nye Did…

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Wake Up, Rosetta!

It's being called "the most important alarm clock in the Solar System" --  this Monday, January 20, at 10:00 GMT…

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Is NASA Dead? Not Even Close.

If you're a frequent reader of Universe Today you know that, despite the end of the Shuttle program and the…

10 years ago

This Time-Lapse ISS Video Isn’t Just Another Time-Lapse ISS Video

It's actually remarkably beautiful, and well worth two minutes of your time.* Assembled from actual photographs taken by astronauts aboard…

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NASA’s STEREO Spacecraft Spots Comets ISON and Encke

As comets ISON and Encke continue toward their respective rendezvous with the Sun, they have now both been captured on…

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