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Spacer: or outer space is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies. Outer space is the closest known approximation to a perfect vacuum. However, even the vacuum of space is not devoid of matter... It contains a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.
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DEC 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
![SpaceX to Launch Used Rocket with Used Dragon Capsule This Week [Updated]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
SpaceX is once again ramping up for a Falcon 9 rocket launch this week. The rocket will resupply the International Space ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
Comprised of spent rocket boosters, retired satellites, and other unwanted knick-knacks that make their way into outer s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 08, 2017Technology
The new Sarco machine is made by a 3D printer and enables painless suicide for the user.Written By: Julia TraversDEC 07, 2017Space & Astronomy
After sifting through oodles of astronomical data accumulated during three separate large area surveys, astronomers beli ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
The heart of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now on the move once again after NASA opened the door on ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 05, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft received rare commands from NASA last week after the United States-based space agency ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2017Videos
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik continues to show off incredible footage of the Earth from the International Space Station' ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2017Videos
Here's a mind-twister: the color we call black is not actually black, in the sense that black is supposed to be the colo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 04, 2017Space & Astronomy
Anyone who follows Elon Musk knows that he often takes to Twitter to summarize his plans for SpaceX, Tesla, and his othe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 01, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Neutrinos are one of the most plentiful yet elusive fundamental particles out there. They are close to the more familiar ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 30, 2017Technology
Digital identity platform uPort is teaming up with Zug, Switzerland to make it the first city in the world to offer digi ...Written By: Julia TraversNOV 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 30, 2017Chemistry & Physics
The gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto Lightning and radiat ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 29, 2017Videos
Space junk continues to be a significant problem. The more we launch, the more garbage we leave in outer space to orbit ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 29, 2017Technology
The astronauts aboard the ISS and people on Earth are sharing their unique perspectives of each other this week.Written By: Julia TraversNOV 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA's Mars 2020 rover got its distinct name for a reason; primarily because the space agency aspires to send the ve ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2017Videos
From time to time, astronauts get asked to perform spacewalks in which they exit the safety of the International Space S ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2017Space & Astronomy
If monitoring the Earth from above is on your to-do list, then two of the best ways to go about it are with drones or sa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2017Microbiology
Extreme microbes are organisms that can survive and even thrive in extreme environments. Extreme thermophiles are bacter ...Written By: Sarah HertrichNOV 27, 2017Space & Astronomy
Images snapped by the Curiosity Rover’s onboard imaging system earlier this year indicated that its aluminum wheel ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2017Videos
In the middle of October, news sites lit up with the headline that astronomers found the first-known interstellar space ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you went to Mars and took a closer look at some of the planet’s steepest slopes, then you would probably come a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to superseding the Hubble Space Telescope as one of the most ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 21, 2017Neuroscience
When a person is stressed, the brain is working overtime to process everything. It can be short-term stress like a car a ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
![SpaceX to Launch Used Rocket with Used Dragon Capsule This Week [Updated]](https://d3bkbkx82g74b8.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJsYWJyb290cy1pbWFnZXMiLCJrZXkiOiJjb250ZW50X2FydGljbGVfcHJvZmlsZV9pbWFnZV84NDAzMDc3NzIxYzhmOWVhZDUwMzkwZmFkYzkzNjkwMDA2ZjEwZGE5XzQ5MTYuanBnIiwiZWRpdHMiOnsidG9Gb3JtYXQiOiJqcGciLCJyZXNpemUiOnsid2lkdGgiOjcwMCwiaGVpZ2h0IjozNTAsImZpdCI6ImNvdmVyIiwicG9zaXRpb24iOiJjZW50ZXIiLCJiYWNrZ3JvdW5kIjoiI2ZmZiJ9LCJmbGF0dGVuIjp7ImJhY2tncm91bmQiOiIjZmZmIn19fQ==)
SpaceX is once again ramping up for a Falcon 9 rocket launch this week. The rocket will resupply the International Space
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Comprised of spent rocket boosters, retired satellites, and other unwanted knick-knacks that make their way into outer s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 08, 2017
Technology
The new Sarco machine is made by a 3D printer and enables painless suicide for the user.
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 07, 2017
Space & Astronomy
After sifting through oodles of astronomical data accumulated during three separate large area surveys, astronomers beli
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The heart of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now on the move once again after NASA opened the door on
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 05, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft received rare commands from NASA last week after the United States-based space agency
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2017
Videos
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik continues to show off incredible footage of the Earth from the International Space Station'
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2017
Videos
Here's a mind-twister: the color we call black is not actually black, in the sense that black is supposed to be the colo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who follows Elon Musk knows that he often takes to Twitter to summarize his plans for SpaceX, Tesla, and his othe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 01, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Neutrinos are one of the most plentiful yet elusive fundamental particles out there. They are close to the more familiar
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 30, 2017
Technology
Digital identity platform uPort is teaming up with Zug, Switzerland to make it the first city in the world to offer digi
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Residing some 325 light years away from our solar system is a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet known as WASP-18b. The alien wo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 30, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
The gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto Lightning and radiat
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 29, 2017
Videos
Space junk continues to be a significant problem. The more we launch, the more garbage we leave in outer space to orbit
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2017
Technology
The astronauts aboard the ISS and people on Earth are sharing their unique perspectives of each other this week.
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA's Mars 2020 rover got its distinct name for a reason; primarily because the space agency aspires to send the ve
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2017
Videos
From time to time, astronauts get asked to perform spacewalks in which they exit the safety of the International Space S
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If monitoring the Earth from above is on your to-do list, then two of the best ways to go about it are with drones or sa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2017
Microbiology
Extreme microbes are organisms that can survive and even thrive in extreme environments. Extreme thermophiles are bacter
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Images snapped by the Curiosity Rover’s onboard imaging system earlier this year indicated that its aluminum wheel
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Videos
In the middle of October, news sites lit up with the headline that astronomers found the first-known interstellar space
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you went to Mars and took a closer look at some of the planet’s steepest slopes, then you would probably come a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is well on its way to superseding the Hubble Space Telescope as one of the most
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 21, 2017
Neuroscience
When a person is stressed, the brain is working overtime to process everything. It can be short-term stress like a car a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim