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This week, NASA announced that the Kepler spacecraft mission has discovered 1,284 more planets in addition to what it's already discovered. This brings…
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On Christmas Eve 1968, nine-year-old Clayton Anderson watched on television as Apollo 8 traveled to the far side of the moon. That night, his dreams of…
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Last week a team of scientists at LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, announced they successfully recorded gravitational waves…
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Mars has been receiving a lot of attention recently. In the new Ridley Scott movie, The Martian, a NASA botanist is stranded on Mars and has to rely on…
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People near Iowa City planning to watch tonight’s super-lunar eclipse, are invited to the roof of Van Allen Hall at the University of Iowa. A group of UI…
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After nine years of travel, the space probe New Horizons finally flew by its target this Tuesday. Jasper Halekas, associate professor of physics and…
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The Kepler mission has found thousands of potentially habitable planets. But how can we truly know if they sustain life?Shawn Domagal-Goldman is a…
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The Kepler mission may have lost two of its wheels, but data being mined from the mission has unearthed eight potentially habitable planets.Steve Kawaler…
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An inky black sky full of stars is one of the most breathtaking views on Earth, but for most Americans the stars have dimmed because of artificial…
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NASA just released news that back in 2012, the Earth came very close to being hit by a solar flare – an event that could have wiped out electrical power…