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NASA’s Kepler Satellite Went Silent — For Six Days
When a satellite that cost $600 million to build and operate goes silent for 144 hours, you're going to get a few peeved astronomers.
Read More »Underground Lava Cave Could Support Lunar Base
Newly discovered caves on our moon could very well lead to the future moon outpost that is vital towards our hopes of exploring our solar system.
Read More »Northern Lights from Alaska to Latvia
This stunning image was snapped by a NASA physicist during his visit to a conference on auroras, of all things.
Read More »NASA Solves Missing Sunspots
NASA believes they have discovered the cause of the extended "solar minimum" that saw record low sunspots and the weakest magnetic field in over a century during 2008 and 2009.
Read More »Two Planets Discovered Sharing One Orbit
Images from the Kepler Telescope have discovered that in the KOI-730 solar system there are two planets that share a single orbit.
Read More »Study Says Green Energy Could Power Earth Within 40 Years
Stanford and University of California-Davis researchers have concluded that, with a steady and committed change in how we operate, the whole of the world could be free from almost all fossil fuels within 50 years.
Read More »Eighteen Stars Have ‘Nemesis Orbit’ Around Our Sun
Researchers who spent time plotting the orbits of 40,000 M-Type Red Dwarf stars for the next billion years have discovered that there is an infinitely small chance that one of eighteen specific stars they tracked could one day pass dangerously close to Earth.
Read More »Three CMEs Headed Towards Earth
Three Coronal Mass Ejections that were spawned by the recent X-Class solar flare are expected to impact Earth between February 16th-18th, which should provide some people with a heck of a light show.
Read More »Infertility Concerns May Leave Space Colonization Hopes Barren
While humanity may strive to explore deep space, concerns about solar radiation may make it impossible for humans to explore beyond Mars.
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