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

Written by:
Jessica Lee
March 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 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
March 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
March 22, 2018 A viral hoax managed to trick some people.
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Does the White House Want to Turn the International Space Station into a Commercial Venture?

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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?

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Alex Kasprak
Jan. 29, 2018 NASA has called the astronomical event in late January 2018 a "supermoon trilogy."
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Has Pluto Been Officially Reclassified as a Planet?

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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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Answering Your Questions About the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

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Arturo Garcia Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 19, 2017 The 21 August 2017 celestial event will be viewable to millions in North America, but taking the ...
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Has NASA Called the Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe 'Living'?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2017 Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have not announced that "Our L ...
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Is NASA Hiring Someone to Protect Earth from Aliens?

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Alex Kasprak
Aug. 3, 2017 NASA has announced a job opening for a planetary protection officer, but viral news reports take ...
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Will 2017's Perseid Meteor Shower Be the Brightest in Recorded Human History?

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Alex Kasprak
Aug. 1, 2017 The reason the web site that originally made this claim cites zero sources is likely due to the ...
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SpaceX Announces Plans to Send Two Private Citizens Around Moon in 2018

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Alex Kasprak
Feb. 27, 2017 “They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission,” the company said in a press ...
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NASA Announces Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Exoplanets in Orbit Around a Nearby Star

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Alex Kasprak
Feb. 22, 2017 It is unclear how Earth-like any of these new planets actually might be, but the discovery is im ...
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Is SpaceX Sending a Deadly Pathogen to the International Space Station?

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Alex Kasprak
Feb. 13, 2017 SpaceX is transporting an experiment that hopes to document genetic mutations to MRSA as a way t ...
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American-Born JPL Scientist Forced to Unlock a NASA Phone by U.S. Customs and Border Protection?

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Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2017 American-born JPL scientist Sidd Bikkannavar asserted CBP seized his phone and demanded access t ...
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Did a NASA Study Conclude That Burning Fossil Fuels Cools the Planet?

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Alex Kasprak
Jan. 30, 2017 This claim is rooted in the willfully negligent reading of a NASA press release by a U.K. tabloi ...
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Four Government Agencies and One Group of Skeptics Agree: 2016 Was the Warmest Year in Recorded History

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Alex Kasprak
Jan. 18, 2017 American, British, and Japanese agencies (plus an independent research group) have all concluded ...
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Is an Experimental Nazi Missile Aimed at the U.S.?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Dec. 30, 2016 A missile was not launched into space by Nazis in 1944, and is not headed for the midwestern Uni ...
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