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Fake astronauts return to real Earth after fake trip to fake Mars

520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth. The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real s …

The Paradox of Multiple Goldilocks Zones or "Did the Universe Know We Were Coming?" | Dr. Kaku's Universe | Big Think

cosmologists are facing this paradox again, but from a cosmic perspective, It turns out that the fundamental parameters of the universe appear to be perfectly "fine-tuned", For example, if the nuclear force were any stronger, the sun would have simply burned out billions of yea …

Woman buys the sun, plans to charge tax on rays

Welcome to the money-making plan of Angeles Duran. The 49-year-old Spanish woman has claimed ownership of the sun after registering the burning star with her local notary last November.

NASA telescope finds more than 1,000 possible new planets

An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, including more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.

Could This Theory Provide a Glimpse of Our Ultimate Destiny?

In the 18th century, Immanuel Kant declared space and time were properties of the mind More recently, Einstein acknowledged "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion" According to biocentrism, space and time are biological construc …

CBC News -- 1st habitable distant planet found

Astronomers believe they have found the first Earth-sized planet outside our solar system that is likely to support liquid water and therefore life.

Map of moon's craters reveals our satellite's cataclysmic past | Science | guardian.co.uk

The violent history of our nearest celestial neighbour has been laid bare by the most detailed map of moon craters ever produced.

Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way (07/22/2010) -Hubble Site

A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep.

New theory of gravity challenges our understanding of the universe

Gravity is information that is displaced. According to Verlinde, if you move around objects, which are made up of chunks of information, there is a force associated with the displacement of the objects. And that force is what gravity is.

How many planets are out there? First Results from Kepler! : Starts With A Bang

"We are all captives of the pictures in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." -Walter Lippmann

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