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Will Dangerous Cosmic Rays Pass Close to Earth 'Tonight'?

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Alex Kasprak
May 24, 2017 This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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Does This Pic Show Neil Armstrong's Family Watching Him Lift Off to Moon?

Written by:
Damakant Jayshi
May 11, 2023 LIFE magazine arranged for the astronaut's family to watch the liftoff from a boat the publisher ...
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That Asteroid-Moon Collision Video? It’s Fake.

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

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Madison Dapcevich
July 26, 2022 But that’s not to say that the moon hasn’t seen its fair share of asteroid impacts.
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Is Outer Space 'Only an Hour Away' if You Could Drive Straight up at 60 MPH?

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Alex Kasprak
Feb. 9, 2023 "If" is doing some heavy lifting here.
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Is This a Real Photograph of a 'Cosmic Bat' Nebula?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Oct. 31, 2022 The “ethereal” nebula is illuminated by dense gaseous knots.
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Did NASA Fund Theological Research To Study How Humans Would React to Extraterrestrial Life?

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Madison Dapcevich
Dec. 29, 2021 The total price tag was said to total more than $1.1 million.
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Rocket, In early May 2021, part of a Chinese rocket was falling to Earth, and could land at an unknown location., Transportation

Was A Chinese Rocket Falling to Earth, and No One Knew Where It Would Crash?

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Jessica Lee
May 4, 2021 An astrophysicist compared the landing to possibly "be the equivalent of a small plane crash sca ...
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'Unidentified Flying Object' Seen as SpaceX Rocket Exploded?

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Alex Kasprak
Sept. 7, 2016 Video capturing the explosion of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket during a test fire seems to show an un ...
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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
Sept. 28, 2022 Here's what happened in the seconds before the collision — a first of its kind.
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Is This a Sunset Seen from Space?

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Bethania Palma
Sept. 21, 2022 The photo in question came from a stock image site.
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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
July 12, 2022 The first-of-a-kind images show us the universe as it appeared billions of years ago.
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nasa sending nude pictures into space?

No, NASA Does Not Plan To Send 'Nude Pics' into Space

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Madison Dapcevich
May 10, 2022 Snopes spoke with NASA and the lead author of a popularly cited study to clarify.
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Does This Photo Show a Hole Drilled on Mars?

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Madison Dapcevich
March 13, 2022 The diameter was said to measure slightly smaller than a U.S. dime.
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Was That 'Meteor' Above Seattle, Pacific Northwest Actually SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket?

Written by:
Dan Evon
March 26, 2021 A bright streak of light left many star-gazers curious.
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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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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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3D Rendering of Chinese space station Tiangong

Will A Defunct Chinese Space Station Crash Into Earth in March 2018?

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Alex Kasprak
Jan. 8, 2018 Researchers agree that an inactive Chinese space station will probably crash back to Earth by mi ...
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NASA Confirms Existence of Earth's Second Moon?

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Alex Kasprak
Oct. 16, 2017 While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit ...
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Russia Has Reached Saturn?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Dec. 26, 2016 No country has yet succeeded in sending a manned vessel to Mars, let alone Saturn.
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Scientists May Have Found Two New 'Moonlets' Lurking In Uranus' Rings

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Alex Kasprak
Oct. 27, 2016 Though we can’t yet see them directly, decades-old data may suggest the presence of two previous ...
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