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Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars
Elon Musk has announced an ambitious plan to colonize Mars.
Ali Sundermier is a science reporter at Business Insider. Before joining Business Insider she interned at Fermilab and has contributed stories to Symmetry and NASA. She holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Stony Brook University.
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These 63 ancient cosmic objects could reveal one of astronomy's great mysteries
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A 300 year old mystery surrounding solar eclipses has been solved with the help of 4500 citizen scientists.
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Chernobyl could be turned into a solar energy farm
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NASA is getting ready to send a spacecraft closer to the sun than ever before
NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission is set to launch in 2018, and will travel to within 4 million miles of the sun. That's 7 times closer than ever before.
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Astronomers say we could be just 10 years away from finding alien life
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Physicists have just done something they thought impossible
A team at the University of Warsaw have created a hologram of a solitary particle of light.
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6 man-made structures visible from space
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The dinosaurs weren't the only species destroyed by the asteroid
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Scientists found something unexpected on Mars – and it could require us to rethink the planet’s history
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This could be the world's first computer and it's 2,100 years old
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