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The debate over whether Pluto is a planet, much less what constitutes a planet, is still raging in the scientific community.
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Pluto may be a dwarf planet whose official status is in flux. But that doesn't mean it's not a very special place...
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We knew cosmic rays were a danger to astronauts' bodies, but it turns out they're hazardous to their minds as well.
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Black holes are such complex entities that just being trapped in one's gravity creates a cascade of paradoxes...
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No, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, aren't microwave noodles of impatient astronomers. They're a very real phenomenon the media just can't seem to get right.
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If you've heard about the Cold Spot, you may have read that it's caused by a strangely low density of galaxies in that area of the universe. But the truth is much, much weirder...
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It turns out that one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is to turn out the lights, lean back, and closely watch a little gravitational galaxy on galaxy action.
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Mars One might be imploding under its own hype but that doesn't mean we can't learn from its ability to tap into people's desire to explore.
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Robotics researcher Srikanth Saripalli advances a bizarre argument against human spaceflight and in favor of sending a robots we haven't invented yet to distant worlds.
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Astronauts will go stir crazy and get cabin fever on interplanetary missions. And it will have to be every mission planner's job to keep them sane and entertained.
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If we're going to have astronauts working and living in space for years at a time, cramming them in tight, fixed spaces without artificial gravity is doing them, and us, a major disservice.
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The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...
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When you remake a fan favorite, you're doomed to get a bad reaction from a lot of die hards, and Star Trek was no exception.
