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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Titanic wreckage – which the Titan submersible was en route to see before it disappeared – sits over 2 miles below the ocean surface
The Titanic wreckage rests at depths of about 2.4 miles below the surface. To picture that, think o…
Katie Balevic
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As Saturn's iconic rings disappear, it's on the verge of losing its largest moon as well — at a rate that's 100 times faster than originally anticipated
Social distancing may be the part of the new normal down here on Earth. But, in outer space, it’s t…
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The world needs people like 'visionary' OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush: former Titan passenger-turned-investor
"We need people like Stockton. He is a hero," Aaron Newman, who became an investor in OceanGate aft…
Natalie Musumeci
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Building blocks of life discovered in Titan’s atmosphere — NASA discovers a ‘weird’ molecule on Saturn’s largest moon
This is a big deal because out of over 200 moons within our solar system, and 62 that belong to …
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Scientists find new evidence of an internal ocean in Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas
According to SwRI’s Dr. Alyssa Rhoden, the possibility of Mimas having an ocean “represents a …
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A deep-diving robot like the one that hauled the Apollo 11's rocket engines up from the ocean's depths is what's needed to rescue the people in the missing Titanic sub — but rescuers don't have it on-site yet, says deep-sea expeditionist
The Apollo engines were recovered from a depth of 14,000 feet, while the Titanic shipwreck rests at…
Matthew Loh
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Lakes of methane on Saturn's moon Titan may be the craters of giant explosions, a new study shows
Near the moon's north pole, the data showed, a series of small lakes sport rims that tower hundreds…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's next $1 billion space mission will be an alien-hunting nuclear helicopter that flies around Saturn's icy moon Titan
In short, the device converts heat energy into electricity. The beating heart of an RTG is a radioa…
Dave Mosher,Aylin Woodward
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The aurora borealis didn't cause the Titanic's crash, contrary to a new theory — but it may have affected rescue efforts
Strong northern lights can indicate huge bursts of energy from the sun — solar storms — that interf…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just failed to lift off from the Martian surface, but it will try again on Friday
Ingenuity didn't get off the ground for its ambitious fourth flight. NASA engineers have just a wee…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Incredible New Pictures Of Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
The new images and radar analysis show the liquid that make up the lakes and seas of Titan is mostl…
Kelly Dickerson
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals
Deep in Earth's oceans, seawater mixes with magma that bubbles up through cracks in the ocean floor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's $1 billion Dragonfly drone mission will look for signs of life on Saturn's moon
As well as look for water, carbon compounds, and other signs of potential life. And NASA already ha…
David Anderson,Shira Polan
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NASA's future missions will shoot for an icy moon of Saturn, photograph the Big Bang, and more. Here's what's coming in the next 10 years.
Last year, the agency announced that it's planning to send astronauts back to the moon and eventual…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New, detailed pictures of planets, moons, and comets are neither photos nor animations - they're made using data from 50 years of NASA missions
"We're not making anything up here," Carter Emmart, director of astrovisualization for that show, s…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists just confirmed there are rivers of methane on one of Saturn's moons
A few years ago, the Cassini spacecraft sent back some odd images from a flight it made near the mo…
Meghan Bartels
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New close-up photos of Saturn's largest moon may be the last for decades
Once Cassini vanishes, it may be the last probe that NASA sends to Saturn for decades. There are cu…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has found evidence that an ice-covered moon of Saturn could sustain alien life
"For decades we have been asking the question, 'Does water equal life'?" Sykes said. "From modeling…
Dave Mosher
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This mysterious orange moon 800 million miles from Earth might be home to a unique form of alien life
"If future observations could show there is prebiotic chemistry in a place like Titan, it would be …