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Party Rock: NASA Discovers Comet Emitting Large Amounts of Alcohol and Sugar

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • October 26, 2015 • 1 Comment •
If you ask around the cosmos, you’ll quickly learn that Comet Lovejoy is the life of the intergalactic …

Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Launch $100 Million Search for Alien Life

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • July 20, 2015 • No Comments •
World-renowned astronomer and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to launch a …

The Man Who Discovered Pluto Finally Gets to Visit It 19 Years After His Death

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • July 14, 2015 • No Comments •
NASA’s New Horizons’ spacecraft whizzed by Pluto earlier this morning, completing a nine-year, 3 billion-mile journey to the dwarf …

Ever Wondered What A Sunset Would Look If We Had A Different Sun? (Images)

Dylan Dement • March 9, 2015 • No Comments •
Slovakian graphic designer Martin Vargic wanted to know what a sunset from Earth would look like if instead …

Size in Space: Just How Big is the Biggest Star We Know Of? (Video)

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • February 20, 2015 • No Comments •
With a diameter of approximately 2.8 million kilometers (about 1.75 million miles), VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant …

New Photo of Europa Shows the Ice-Covered Moon’s Surface in Stunning Detail (Video)

The Higher Learning Team • December 7, 2014 • No Comments •
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since the late 1990’s. Since then, NASA has recorded data, producing …

Moon Mining: NASA’s Plans to Harvest Water from the Moon

Max W • October 16, 2014 • No Comments •
There’s a lot of water on the moon, and NASA wants to learn how to get to it. In July …

The “BioSuit” – MIT Scientists Making A Skintight Spacesuit For Better Motion

Dylan Dement • October 7, 2014 • No Comments •
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) want to replace the bulky spacesuits astronauts currently wear with …

This Picture of the Moon Is the First Photo Taken By A New 3-D Printed Telescope

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • September 22, 2014 • No Comments •
3-D printing technology has been improving in leaps and bounds lately, and now it can add yet another cool …

What Mars Looked Like When It Had Water, Courtesy of NASA (Video)

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu • August 14, 2014 • No Comments •
Today, we think of Mars as having  a cold, dry, and desolate environment (because it does). But that …

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