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Can Mount Everest Fit Inside the Mariana Trench?

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Nur Ibrahim
Feb 6, 2023 They represent the highest and deepest places on earth respectively.
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Flare, Light, Person

Did NASA Fund Theological Research To Study How Humans Would React to Extraterrestrial Life?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Dec 29, 2021 The total price tag was said to total more than $1.1 million.
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NASA Lithium Chemtrails Conspiracy

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Apr 21, 2016 Conspiracy web sites discovered an old recorded phone call between a NASA scientist and a conspi ...
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Space Station, Construction Crane

Is Russia Leaving the International Space Station?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
May 2, 2022 For context, the head of the Russian space agency has threatened that the station could crash in ...
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Has Pluto Been Officially Reclassified as a Planet?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jan 29, 2018 The decade-long debate over Pluto's planetary status has provided fodder for April Fool's Day jo ...
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NASA image shows what antarctica looks like from space

Is This Antarctica as Photographed from Space?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jul 19, 2022 The image has been widely viewed, but also mischaracterized.
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That Asteroid-Moon Collision Video? It’s Fake.

That Asteroid-Moon Collision Video? It’s Fake.

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jul 26, 2022 But that’s not to say that the moon hasn’t seen its fair share of asteroid impacts.
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Diana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Who Is Artemis? NASA’s Latest Mission to the Moon Is Named After an Ancient Lunar Goddess Turned Feminist Icon

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The Conversation
Aug 30, 2022 Artemis was a major deity in ancient Greece, worshiped at least as early as the beginning of the ...
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Launch of NASA's Minotaur 5 rocket in 2013

Did a Frog 'Photobomb' a NASA Moon Probe Launch?

Written by:
David Emery
Sep 2, 2022 A textbook example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

Photos From Space: The Seconds Before NASA's Spacecraft Crashed Into an Asteroid

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The Conversation
Sep 28, 2022 Here's what happened in the seconds before the collision — a first of its kind.
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NASA Reveals First Color Images Captured by James Webb Telescope

NASA Reveals 1st Color Images Captured by James Webb Telescope

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Madison Dapcevich
Jul 12, 2022 The first-of-a-kind images show us the universe as it appeared billions of years ago.
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Does This Pic Show What Jupiter's Southern Pole Looks Like?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Aug 26, 2021 The images prompted comparisons to dosa, an Indian crepe.
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Monitor, Display, Screen

Did Biden Say Indian Americans Are 'Taking Over' the U.S.?

Written by:
Jessica Lee
Mar 5, 2021 Roughly 4 million people of Indian origin currently live in the U.S., representing about 1% of t ...
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Is NASA Planning to Geoengineer Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Threat Away?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Oct 10, 2018 A theoretical NASA paper written in 2015 was misconstrued in 2018 to suggest an urgent need to g ...
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Did a Twitter User Jeopardize Her NASA Internship by Insulting a Member of the National Space Council?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Aug 28, 2018 A screenshot captured a NASA intern's injudicious Twitter exchange with a member of the National ...
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Did Astronaut Mark Kelly Say the 'Space Force' Was a 'Dumb Idea?'

Written by:
Dan Evon
Aug 13, 2018 A man who flew on several NASA Space Shuttle missions is not a supporter of the proposed Space F ...
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Are These the Northern Lights Seen From Space?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Mar 28, 2018 A purported photograph of an aurora is actually a screenshot from a computer animation.
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Did NASA Warn of an Impending Earthquake in India?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Mar 22, 2018 A viral hoax managed to trick some people.
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International Space Station Orbiting Earth. 3D Illustration

Does the White House Want to Turn the International Space Station into a Commercial Venture?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Feb 13, 2018 President Donald Trump has proposed entirely privatizing the International Space Station by 2025 ...
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Will There Be A 'Super Blue Blood Moon' This Week?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jan 29, 2018 NASA has called the astronomical event in late January 2018 a "supermoon trilogy."
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