Space

Blue Origin is Headed to Space with a Lucky +1

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On behalf of Blue Origin, the opportunity of a lifetime is currently being auctioned off: the last seat on New Shepard, heading to space.

CONFESSIONS FROM SPACE: Apollo Astronauts

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Diary of an Astronaut: Mike Massimino

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Neptune: The (Official) Last Planet

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Life on Venus… Maybe Not So Lively

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All planets with evidence of life please take a step forward. Not so fast, Venus.

Why Aren't There Stars in the Moon Landing Photos?

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A vocal minority believes that the moon landing was all an elaborate hoax filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood, but it's no hoax. Here's why...

This Is How Our Sun Will Die

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Every star you see in the sky, including the sun, will someday die. It’s best to get used to that idea now, before things start to get heavy.

Want the Ultimate Off-the-Grid Challenge? Try Mars

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Mars is the ultimate off-the-grid experience--far grittier, far harder, and far… redder than even the most remote locations on planet Earth. Let’s break down some of the challenges that people will have to face in order to survive and thrive on our neighbor in the solar system.

Too Big to be a Neutron Star, Too Small to be a Black Hole. What Am I?

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Okay, stars die in all sorts of interesting and cosmically expressive ways (except the red dwarf stars, who just sort of…stop).

An Astrophysicist's Perspective: the World Could Use a Dose of Overview

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Something happens once you see the world from a different perspective. It's called the "Overview Effect". But what does that mean?

The Case of the Missing Black Hole

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You would think that objects weighing billions of times the mass of the sun would be easy to find. Alas, it’s rarely that simple.

Why We Know Nothing about Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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Welcome to the era of precision cosmology…where we’ve managed to very precisely measure everything we don't know about the universe.

Like Stars? How About 6 in the Same Solar System?

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Meet TYC 7037-89-1, a six-star solar system. Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter explains this stellar surprise discovery.

Asteroid Ryugu Has Dust Grains Older Than the Sun. How?

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In 2018 the Japanese space agency sent the Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu, As a part of that mission, the spacecraft blasted material off the surface of the asteroid, put it in a bottle, and sent it back to Earth. Two years later that sample landed in the western deserts of Australia.

Say Hello to a Planet So Hot that the Oceans are Lava and it Rains Rocks

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Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, and every month seems to bring in a new batch of weird, wild, and wonderful worlds.

Only 12 People Have Been on the Moon

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How Stars Die: The Big Ones

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Sometimes when you want to go out, you want to go out with a bang.

The Death of Black Holes

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According to NASA, "A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying." But what happens when a black hole dies?