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The Soviet Union wanted to detonate a nuclear warhead on the Moon as a show of force. But without an atmosphere and 238,900 miles away, what would that look like?
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America won the space race and the Cold War. Now, its access to space will be controlled by the whims of the country it defeated thanks to its myopic politicians.
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If our universe is one of many, just how many others are out there? A duo of physicists try to answer that question. Well, sort of...
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No, we haven't found life 25,000 light years away, just one sugar molecule that could be used by living things.
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At the end of the universe, black holes will be the only things left and they will define what happens in the cosmos for countless eons.
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Young Earth creationists demand scientists produce the "missing antimatter" from the Big Bang or scrap the theory altogether.
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If we could accelerate to more than 90% of the speed of light, we could billions of light years in a human lifetime. With two major gotchas...
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The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
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We've seen gas giants orbiting so close to their stars, their atmospheres are being stripped off. COROT-7b may show us what happens at the end of that process.
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Earth's worst thunderstorms have nothing on the storms that envelop gas giants, especially Saturn...
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It's actually a good thing there's a debate about whether to classify Pluto as a planet or something else.
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If we're expecting tourists to visit the Moon, should we figure out how to protect Apollo landing sites from souvenir hunters and historical artifact collectors?
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We can't see a black hole directly, even a supermassive one. But we can see where they are by tracking the orbits of the objects around them...
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No matter what we try, we can't get around the need for dark matter in our equations and observations.
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Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
