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Astronomers caught a planet being born for the first time in a stunning new picture
PDS 70b has an atmosphere - but it's no place you'd want to visit. Astronomers who've studied the d…
Dave Mosher
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These are your lucky colours for the new year 2020
Astrology recommends colours to different individuals based on their zodiac sign, planetary posi…
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Origin story: All comets come from the same place next to the Sun
Comets can be found flying all over the solar system, but all of them could have originated in the …
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Jeff Bezos predicts that people will one day be born in space and will 'visit Earth the way you visit Yellowstone National Park'
Jeff Bezos envisions humans living in floating habitats that mimic Earth's weather and gravitationa…
Avery Hartmans
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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible
Not only did they think something that big would be a gas giant, but they didn't even think the ele…
Leslie Baehr
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers just spotted something that will give them insight into how planets form
"The distribution of water ice around a young star is fundamental to planet formation and even the …
Ali Sundermier
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For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity rover a daily 'wake-up' song. Listen to the best songs from the Mars morning routine playlist.
Mission engineers played a song each day to inspire Opportunity to turn back on. The rover lasted f…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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5 sobering charts that show how many resources Americans use and waste
The average person born in the US creates 13 times as much damage to the environment as someone bor…
Skye Gould,Dave Mosher
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A dreamy new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the birth of 50 sun-like stars
Webb's vibrant one-year anniversary image shows about 50 stars in various stages of formation about…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Here's The History Of Everything In 10 Steps, According To Bill Gates's Favorite Historian
In a wildly popular 2011 TED Talk, Christian gave us an overview of what Big History is all about. …
Natasha Bertrand
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The incredible life of British-born former NASA astronaut Piers Sellers
"Piers was dedicated to all facets of exploration. His curiosity and drive to uncover new knowledge…
Lianna Brinded
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Elon Musk has reportedly offered his sperm to help colonize Mars. It's unclear if that's possible.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may be uniting two of his biggest life projects: colonizing Mars and having lo…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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A second planet might orbit the closest star to the sun, and astronomers think it's a super-Earth
The team discovered Proxima c using a technique called radial velocity. It works like this: Planets…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Having sex and reproducing in space comes with serious scientific and ethical problems. We may need to create a new species of human to make it work.
Science fiction authors have wrestled with this idea. In "The Expanse," authors Daniel Abraham and …
Kevin Loria
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Hotter weather is causing babies to come early. Nearly 70,000 US moms could go into early labor each year by 2100, a study predicts.
If carbon emissions continue unabated, most of the US could see 20 to 30 more days every year with …