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Stargazing and storytelling are universal, age-old past-times. For millenia, people have looked to the sky, seen shapes in the stars, and attached stories…
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The first detection of gravitational waves two years ago earned the project’s founders this year’s Nobel Prize.Within two weeks of that news, researchers…
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Today a total solar eclipse will pass over tens of millions of people in a 70-mile-wide swath across the United States about 2,500 miles long. It’s been…
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Thanks to Galileo, it's common knowledge that the Earth orbits the sun. What's not as commonly known is that the sun - and our entire solar system - is…
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Oceans cover seventy percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water, and there's even more water trapped inside the Earth. Where did it all come from?…
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After last week's announcement that scientists had detected gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, everybody is listening…
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How many planets are there in our solar system? It used to be such an easy question. Nine - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,…
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If you are trying to peer up, past the earth’s atmosphere, all this bad weather of late poses a considerable challenge. How do you study a distant galaxy…
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The International Space Station orbits the earth more than 15 times a day. Want to see it? All you have to do is look up at the right moment. You don't…
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For the last several weeks a comet has been visible in the sky – if you’ve known where to look with your binoculars. The comet is named Lovejoy, and it…