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Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars
Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars Back in November 2011, the Curiosity Rover was launched with a mission to get to Mars and explore the surface. Having successfully made the trip, it’s fairly safe to say that so far things have been going really well. Since arriving it has sent…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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Jeff Bezos Says Industry Will Have To Move To Other Planets
Jeff Bezos Predicts That Industry Will Have To Be Taken off Planet Earth Usually the leading figures in the technology and industrial scene predict that killer robots will kill us all. I’m fairly sure that Jezz Bezos might have made that prediction himself. It seems, however, that he now has…
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UK’s First Flat Earth Convention Held In Birmingham Ends
UK’s First Flat Earth Conference Ends There are a select number of people who, despite all the best information available to them, believe that the Earth is actually flat. Usually, that theory doesn’t extend to 4 elephants on top of a turtle, but it’s something I’ve always struggled to come…
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NASA Find Mars Spacecraft Lost 10 Years Ago
NASA A little under a debate ago the Phoenix Probe landed on Mars and over the course of 3 months, pottered around gathering scientific data on the red planet. It sadly, however, experienced conditions that it wasn’t designed for and perished. Despite all this time passing, NASA has incredibly revealed…
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Cryptocurrency Craze Is ‘Hindering’ Us Finding Aliens
Cryptocurrency is (apparently) stopping us finding aliens Do you currently have a system somewhere in your proximity mining currency? Trying to earn a little Bitcoin or Ethereum? Well, shame on you because you apparently are the direct reason why we haven’t found aliens yet! Ok, that’s a little stretch, but…
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Google Maps Adds Planets and Moon for You to Explore
At the Sea of Tranquility, Turn left! Google Maps (or Earth if you prefer) has always been a fascinating program. Not least of which for opening up the world on a grand scale, but also the opportunity for us to explore, even on a street level, the planet in which…
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Scientists Want New Planetary Definition to Include 110 Space Objects
A group of six scientists from five institutions including John Hopkins University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Baltimore, Maryland, USA are not just sore about Pluto losing Planetary definition status a few years ago, they disagree with existing planetary definition standards entirely. Currently, planets are defined primarily as…
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Go Wherever You Want With This No Mans Sky Mod
No Man’s Sky has had a troubled life so far, suffering from major technical issues on its PC release and many players feeling frustrated at the reality of the game compared to gameplay trailers shown while it was in development. While Hello Games are patching the game to fix technical issues,…
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Even More Evidence Points to the Ninth Planet
Space is a very humbling thing, just once we think we’ve figured something out we realise there is something else we need to learn. Our very Solar System is an example of that with scientists now claiming that there’s even more proof to back up the evidence of a ninth…
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International Astronomical Union (IAU) Planet-Naming Contest Opening Up
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) will open up exoplanet naming contests starting next year, in an effort to cut off the complicated names following the once-strict naming guidelines. Instead of having the next OGLE235-MOA53 b exoplanet, other suitable – and potentially amusing – names could be up for grabs. It’s a…
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