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Images of Our Changing Earth

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Amazing before and after satellite images taken from the International Space Station show how quickly our dynamic, but fragile planet can change.

How Should We Define Intelligent Life?

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We've been searching for intelligent life in the universe for decades, but have we been doing it all wrong?

Death From Space

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There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are they and what happens if they hit us?

Is It Okay to Touch Mars?

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What exactly makes a journey to Mars so perilous? Is it okay to touch Martian dirt with your bare hands?

Welding in Space

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In space, metals can weld together without heat or melting.

Could we survive prolonged space travel? - Lisa Nip

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Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations.

The Twins Paradox Primer

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How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Black Hole Comparison

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This Crazy Black Hole Comparison Will Definitely Blow Your Mind

What Is Something?

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What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?

How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.

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Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter what? It turns out there are. Far, far more than you might have thought...

James Webb Space Telescope

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Known as Hubble's successor, it uses 18 mirror segments to collect light from galaxies billions of light years away.

First Contact

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Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?

First Stage Landing on Droneship

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That some incredible precision right there!

Alaska Airlines Solar Eclipse Flight

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You can't help but get excited when you fly with us and see a solar eclipse. We adjusted Flight #870 from Anchorage to Honolulu on March 8, 2016 just so our passengers could catch the solar eclipse from 35,000 feet.

The Falcon has landed | Recap of Falcon 9 launch and landing

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On December 21, 2015, SpaceX's Falcon 9 delivered 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit and landed the first stage of the rocket back on land.

Space Oddity

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A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Historic Rocket Landing

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Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas.