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Seven things not to do when you first wake upMaybe yours involves reading the news, or guzzling water, or dancing to pop music in your underwear. No judgment.- ITER: A $14-billion machine which may usher in a new era of nuclear fusion powerIt's called ITER and is expected to usher in a new era of nuclear fusion-powered electricity -something scientists have been working toward...
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin beats Elon Musk's SpaceX, passes rocket landing testThis is a huge accomplishment for the approaching era of reusable rockets, which will drastically reduce the cost of spaceflight.
- There's a rare supermoon total lunar eclipse happening this weekend, and it won't come again until 2033On Sunday evening, September 27, you'll get the chance to see a rare type of lunar eclipse that hasn't happened since 1982.
- Best places to watch this week's dazzling meteor showerEach August, we're treated to the Perseid meteor shower, but this year's will be exceptionally brilliant because it coincides with a new mo...
- Here's where over 90% of the extra heat from global warming is goingScientists estimate that as much as 90% of it is heading straight into our oceans, and that has major consequences for the world's economy.
- Scientists have measured a comet's impenetrable shield in action for the 1st timeThe solar wind can travel millions of miles into deep space, and when it bombards comets the high-energy particles interact with the water ...
- A rare blue moon is happening this Friday, but it won't be changing colorThere's a full moon coming this Friday that is unlike anything we've seen since 2012 and won't see again until 2018 - it's called a blue mo...
- Here is the extremely complicated process needed to detonate US' most powerful nuclear missile systemTitan II was a guided ballistic missile that carried the largest, single nuclear warhead of any missile of its kind. And that record still ...
- Europe just invested over $380 million in an alien-hunting space mission to JupiterIn the ultimate quest for life beyond Earth, some of Jupiter's largest moons hold great potential, and Europe plans to explore that potenti...
- Here's how much a mission to Pluto costsNASA's New Horizons mission sent a spacecraft to fly over Pluto for the very first time in history, and they did it on a budget of $720 mil...
- NASA discovers an Earth-like planet 'Kepler 452b'Using NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, called Kepler, a team announced today that Kepler 452b is the most Earth-like planet every dis...
- Here's how to watch the space rock worth $5.4 trillion flying by Earth this weekendUnderneath the surface of some asteroids is a treasure trove of a type of mineral, called platinum, that is rare on Earth but extremely luc...
- NASA receives the critical message that proves its spacecraft reached Pluto after 9 1/2 yearsAbout 99% of the scientific data the spacecraft has gathered has not been transmitted to Earth - it's still stored on the spacecraft.
- Here's how big Pluto is compared to the largest objects in the solar systemToday, it's still one of the farthest objects in our solar neighborhood, but it now goes by another title: dwarf planet.
- A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstaticOn June 15, one of NASA's satellites picked up a torrent of x-rays all coming from a single source: the black hole.
- SpaceX going to try a revolutionary rocket landing this SundayIf the rocket safely lands on the platform, it should be in good condition to be reused for a second launch.
- 15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that's 1,000 light years from EarthWagg's exoplanet is located in a distant solar system within our home galaxy, the Milky Way, 1000 light years from Earth.
- Here's the crazy plan to start building an inflatable habitat on the Moon in 2024In 2018 ESA is planning to send a Lunar Lander to the Moon's south pole. The mission will be a precursor to ESA's bigger construction plans.
- Pluto's moons exhibit the strangest behavior that scientists have ever seenThere are plenty of odd-shaped moons in the solar system such as the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) or Saturn's sponge-shaped moon Hyper...
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