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Our Solar System Has A Ninth Planet
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Our Solar System Has A Ninth Planet

By Shannon Stirone

Earth May Be Unique In The Universe
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Earth May Be Unique In The Universe

By Sarah Fecht

Lasers Could Send A Wafer-Thin Spaceship To A Star
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Lasers Could Send A Wafer-Thin Spaceship To A Star

By Charles Q. Choi

Artist Tattfoo Tan Uses Food Waste to Create Survival Supplies
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Artist Tattfoo Tan Uses Food Waste to Create Survival Supplies

By Lydia Chain

NASA Is Growing Potatoes In Peru To Simulate Martian Conditions
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NASA Is Growing Potatoes In Peru To Simulate Martian Conditions

By Josh Hrala

This Is Virgin Galactic’s New Spaceplane, VSS Unity
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This Is Virgin Galactic’s New Spaceplane, VSS Unity

By Sarah Fecht

Virgin Galactic Will Unveil Its New Ship Today, Signaling Another Rebound For Private Spaceflight
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Virgin Galactic Will Unveil Its New Ship Today, Signaling Another Rebound For Private Spaceflight

By Sarah Fecht

Why Do I Feel Like Someone’s Watching Me?
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Why Do I Feel Like Someone’s Watching Me?

By Daniel Engber

Should I Be Freaked Out By Backwash?
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Should I Be Freaked Out By Backwash?

By Daniel Engber

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This is what Downtime Looked Like Going to the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

Star Trek And NASA Just Issued A ‘Replicator Challenge’
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Star Trek And NASA Just Issued A ‘Replicator Challenge’

By Jason Lederman

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What Do Astronauts Dream?

By Jason Lederman

A closeup of the fossilized flower
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New Species Of Flower Found Preserved In Amber

By Mary Beth Griggs

Is ‘Hamilton’ The Musical The Most Addicting Album Ever?
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Is ‘Hamilton’ The Musical The Most Addicting Album Ever?

By Nicole Dieker

How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science
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How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

By Amy Shira Teitel

Scientists X-Ray Potato Chips In Attempt To Make Them More Delicious
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Scientists X-Ray Potato Chips In Attempt To Make Them More Delicious

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Neandertal vs human skulls
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Our Neanderthal DNA May Help Scientists Understand Depression And Addiction

By Alexandra Ossola

Gravitational Wave Announcement Breaks The Internet
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Gravitational Wave Announcement Breaks The Internet

By Sarah Fecht

Animation: The Black Hole Collision That Created Today’s Gravitational Wave Announcement
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Animation: The Black Hole Collision That Created Today’s Gravitational Wave Announcement

By Sarah Fecht

The World Reacts To LIGO’s Discovery Of Gravitational Waves
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The World Reacts To LIGO’s Discovery Of Gravitational Waves

By Jason Lederman

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Listen To The Sound Of Gravitational Waves

By Carl Franzen

Liftoff of a spaceship
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An Apollo Lunar Landing Told Through Vintage Art

By Amy Shira Teitel

Future Astronauts May Need To Eat A Lot Of Prunes
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Future Astronauts May Need To Eat A Lot Of Prunes

By Sarah Fecht

Self-Taught Typists Type Just As Fast
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Self-Taught Typists Type Just As Fast

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Watch Lightning Strike The Earth Through The Space Station’s Window
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Watch Lightning Strike The Earth Through The Space Station’s Window

By Mary Beth Griggs

Green Slime Can See
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Green Slime Can See

By Mary Beth Griggs

Researchers Have Preserved An Entire Rabbit Brain
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Researchers Have Preserved An Entire Rabbit Brain

By Claire Maldarelli

Chocolate Like You’ve Never Seen It: Magnified 5,000 Times
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Chocolate Like You’ve Never Seen It: Magnified 5,000 Times

By Grennan Milliken

How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon
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How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

SpaceX Gears Up For Mass Production Of Falcon Rockets
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SpaceX Gears Up For Mass Production Of Falcon Rockets

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Six Degrees of Separation? Try Three
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Six Degrees of Separation? Try Three

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Facebook Turns 12 Years Old Today, What’s Next?
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Facebook Turns 12 Years Old Today, What’s Next?

By Jason Lederman

Luxembourg Wants To Become Earth’s Hub For Asteroid Mining
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Luxembourg Wants To Become Earth’s Hub For Asteroid Mining

By Sarah Fecht

The Sun Looks Like A Disco Ball In This Trippy NASA Video
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The Sun Looks Like A Disco Ball In This Trippy NASA Video

By Mary Beth Griggs

Gel Brain
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You Have Basic Physics To Thank For Your Brain’s Funky Folds

By Claire Maldarelli

Theia-Earth Collision
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More Evidence That Early Earth Collided Head-On With Another Planet

By Mary Beth Griggs

Behind the Scenes at SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition
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Behind the Scenes at SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition

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NASA Is Running Out Of Plutonium For Spacecraft, But A New Plan Could Help
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NASA Is Running Out Of Plutonium For Spacecraft, But A New Plan Could Help

By Sarah Fecht

North Korea Plans To Launch A Satellite This Month
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North Korea Plans To Launch A Satellite This Month

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Did Anti-Chemtrail Hackers Break Into NASA’s Drone?
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Did Anti-Chemtrail Hackers Break Into NASA’s Drone?

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Lunar Flashlight
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Here’s What NASA Will Launch Aboard Its New Rocket In 2018

By Mary Beth Griggs

European Scientists Want To Shoot A Giant Bullet At Europa
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European Scientists Want To Shoot A Giant Bullet At Europa

By Sarah Fecht

Quantum Chess Is Coming To The Real World
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Quantum Chess Is Coming To The Real World

By Sophie Bushwick

NASA’s Weird Giant Airplane Carried The Future Of Mars In Its Belly
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NASA’s Weird Giant Airplane Carried The Future Of Mars In Its Belly

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Could These Cauliflower-Like Shapes On Mars Have Been Sculpted By Microbes?
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Could These Cauliflower-Like Shapes On Mars Have Been Sculpted By Microbes?

By Sarah Fecht

MIT Wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Design Competition
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MIT Wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Design Competition

By Priscila Mosqueda

NASA Releases Breathtaking 360-Degree Video of Mars
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NASA Releases Breathtaking 360-Degree Video of Mars

By Sarah Fecht

Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together
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Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together

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Fly Over The Dwarf Planet Ceres In NASA’s Stunning Animation
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Fly Over The Dwarf Planet Ceres In NASA’s Stunning Animation

By Lindsey Kratochwill

The Hyperloop Competition Is Happening This Weekend In Texas
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The Hyperloop Competition Is Happening This Weekend In Texas

By Mary Beth Griggs

Exclusive: Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us all about his flat-Earth rap beef
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Exclusive: Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us all about his flat-Earth rap beef

By Jason Lederman and Matt Giles

Day of Remembrance
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30 Years After Challenger, Remembering All Those Killed In The Pursuit Of Space

By Mary Beth Griggs

How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster
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How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster

By Carl Franzen

Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible
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Bioart and the Gnawing Invisible

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Watch Paul Rudd Battle Stephen Hawking In Quantum Chess
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Watch Paul Rudd Battle Stephen Hawking In Quantum Chess

By Sophie Bushwick

This Is The Highest Resolution Astronomical Image Ever Taken
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This Is The Highest Resolution Astronomical Image Ever Taken

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Cat May Have Been Domesticated Two Separate Times
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The Cat May Have Been Domesticated Two Separate Times

By Grennan Milliken

What The Earth Looks Like From The International Space Station
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What The Earth Looks Like From The International Space Station

By Mary Beth Griggs

How Many Co-Conspirators Can You Have Before Your Secret Leaks?
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How Many Co-Conspirators Can You Have Before Your Secret Leaks?

By Mary Beth Griggs

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Why B.o.B’s Neil de Grasse Tyson Diss Track Is Totally Wrong

By Xavier Harding

The Biggest Solar System Ever Found Is Very, Very Big
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The Biggest Solar System Ever Found Is Very, Very Big

By Sarah Fecht

Mars Needs Colonists Who Eat Meat And Sleep Late
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Mars Needs Colonists Who Eat Meat And Sleep Late

By Sarah Fecht

Can There Really Be A Planet In Our Solar System That We Don’t Know About?
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Can There Really Be A Planet In Our Solar System That We Don’t Know About?

By Sarah Fecht

SpaceX Dragon 2 hover test
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Watch SpaceX Test-Fire Its Spaceship For Astronauts, The ‘Dragon 2’

By Carl Franzen

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