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One of the weirdest extrasolar planets we've found so far is a superheated puffball that orbits its star in the wrong direction.
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We knew planetary collisions should happen relatively often in young solar systems. Now we have hard evidence of one such an event.
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NASA is trying to replay history at the cost of keeping its launch systems and exploration programs stagnant.
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Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
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Boredom and small spaces for an extended period of time wreak havoc on the human psyche. That's going to be a huge problem on extended missions into deep space.
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Jupiter may have once again saved us from an asteroid impact. But next time, it might steer one our way...
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Celebrating Apollo 11's lunar landing isn't just celebrating an American triumph. It's celebrating how far humanity can go and how much it can do.
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Scientists are trying to recruit existing satellites to track tsunamis, but it may be a challenge to turn the information they'll gather into useful early warnings.
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Astronomers are trying to zero in on the largest mass for a stellar black hole and found a monster larger and hungrier than they expected.
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Asteroid mining is touted as the industry of the future. But how ready are we to harvest raw materials from the asteroid belt at a profit?
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Astrologers are irate because, apparently, we didn't ask the Moon for its consent to be probed.
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Astronomers weigh a black hole so massive, it wasn't born from an imploding star but from massive nebulae crushed by its own gravity.
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Colony ships wouldn't just be small cities floating through space. They could become their own little, self-contained worlds.
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Is VB 10 a planet-sized star, or is VB 10a a star-sized planet? One of our closest stellar neighbors poses a small but interesting challenge to cosmic taxonomy.
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Spike Psarris tries to explain why evolution and a 13 billion year old are lies because... the planet Mercury is a little too dense for his tastes?
