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NASA releases new ‘head-scratcher’ images of Pluto — Holy shit, basically

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“Seeing dunes on Pluto — if that is what they are — would be completely wild, because Pluto’s atmosphere today is so thin,” said William B. ...

Elon Musk suggests nuking Mars to warm it up … the fast way

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Mars is a fixer-upper of a planet from our perspective, as Elon Musk told Stephen Colbert Wednesday on Late Night . It’s got some of the bas...

Ceres’ bright spots looking less like alien cities in new photo … oh, well

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Highest resolution photos yet of the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres show a complex of material that looks a lot like refl...

UFO sightings used to be ‘better’ — What happened?

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Written by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute UFOs: The Trail is Stale. One thing that strikes me about claims of alien visitation is that so mu...

Winter weather: Godzilla El Nino favored to beat NW Blob by a knockout

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Scene: Godzilla El Nino walks into a bar and there sits smokin’ hot California with an empty glass. Always generous, Godzilla approaches the...

Fireballs erupt over Hawaii as space debris hits atmosphere

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Looking a lot like how Hollywood might portray an invasion by space aliens, videos began surfacing Sunday of strange fireballs streaking acr...

NASA video: Bright, colorful UFO paces International Space Station

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“‘The ISS is being monitored by aliens': Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station” … That’s from the ...

Is that a ‘pingo’ mountain on dwarf planet Ceres?

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The last time we wrote about “pingos” they were popping open in Siberia (see gallery below). Then we saw the latest photo from the Dawn spa...

NASA’s most amazing flight photo possibly ever, based on an 1864 technique

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This is our world … you just can’t see it without Superman vision or this photo technique from 1864. Check it out in this zoomable format: ...

Ancient pre-mammal ‘Scarface’ fossil discovery into human ancestors

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It’s been 255 million years since an animal now known as Ichibengops munyamadziensis, or “Scarface of the Munyamadzi River” walked the Eart...

Paul G. Allen Ebola Program unveils containment units to reduce biohazard risks

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The Paul G. Allen Ebola Program , the U.S. Department of State, and  MRIGlobal  have announced the release of a unique biocontainment unit t...

The real NASA science behind the science fiction of ‘The Martian’

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“I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.” — Watney Mark Watney is a science fiction character from the novel and upcoming movie ...

Half of US population could be harmed by earthquakes, see where Washington ranks

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Half the United States population is at risk of being harmed by earthquakes, and tens of millions are in the bull’s-eye of much stronger ear...

Mystery ‘light’ on Mars appears to move around in Curiosity photos

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Another day, another fun mystery brought to you by the creatures on Mars! Well, that or NASA’s rover Curiosity just experienced a little gli...

What our cities could be like in 2050, if we tackled climate change

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Okay, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray blinked last month when it came to taking a big step forward in building into Seattle and opening the way for...

Holy sh*t! Rose from the Titanic spotted on Mars!

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Hehehehe … ahhhh…*dabs tears from eyes* I love the Internet. And, Mars! Especially since the creatures who run that planet have a very good...

How to watch: Perseid meteor shower peaks Thursday

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They going off across the sky right now … but it’s light out and they’re a little sparse. That said, we’re in the thick of the Perseid meteo...

Blood Moon, Super Moon combine for one spectacularly bright lunar eclipse this fall

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By Brandon M. Mercer at SFGate.com Moon gazers, mark your calendars. A “Blood Moon” and “Super Moon” combine on September 28 for a spectacu...

Tragic journey ends Friday in Seattle for tons of tsunami debris from Japan

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For most of the debris filling more than 3,000 “super sacks” stacked on a barge that will dock in Seattle on Friday, it’s been a long tragic...

NASA, citizen scientist cast Ceres features in 3D; bright-spots mystery survives

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The mystery of what exactly is causing all those bright spots/reflections on the dwarf-planet Ceres remains solidly in place … even after NA...