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The Philadelphia Science Festival encompasses nine days of more than 80 extraordinary, mostly free science events all around the city fro ...

Air Date: April 27, 2019

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 59 Flight Engineer Christina Koch works on U.S. spacesuits inside the Quest airlock.

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Double Duty

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch’s maiden voyage in space will extend for almost double the scheduled duration. She is now set to stay ...

Air Date: April 20, 2019

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Down the Shore

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Fireball streaks across southern Jersey Shore sky

Commenters on the Cool Cape May Facebook page reported seeing the vivid fireball and feeling shaking.

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Explorer of the Year

Next week, (Wednesday evening at the Union League in Philadelphia) the Geographical Society of Philadelphia will bestow its 128th Explo ...

Air Date: April 15, 2019

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This image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)

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Picture was clear, but black hole’s name a little fuzzy

The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.

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The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the

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A black hole is photographed for first time by massive telescope project

"Getting a direct view of a black hole is the ultimate dream for a lot of physicists," as astrophysicist Adam Frank wrote for NPR.

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Image: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)

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Imaging The Unimaginable

The Event Horizon Telescope team may reveal an image of a black hole event horizon on Wednesday. An array of eight radio telescopes aroun ...

Air Date: April 6, 2019

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An image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

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Jupiter Ch-Ch-Changes

Jupiter has seen quite a dramatic change since formation 4.5 billion years ago. Now the largest planet in the solar system, with a mass g ...

Air Date: March 30, 2019

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While she was working last week, U.S. astronaut Anne McClain realized that she needed a medium-size suit for spacewalking. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

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NASA scraps first all-female spacewalk for want of a medium-size spacesuit

History was supposed to be made Friday when, for the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station.

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Step by Step

Next Friday, March 29th an historic spacewalk will take place; Anne McClain and Christina Koch will step outside International Space Stat ...

Air Date: March 23, 2019

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Some Like it Dry

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most arid places on the planet – averaging less than one inch of rainfall per year! High ...

Air Date: March 8, 2019

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J.J. Tiziou and Jenna Horton sift through memorabilia from the space program. Jacques Tiziou, J.J. ’s father, was a French aerospace journalist and collector. With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 spaceflight and moon landing coming up, J.J. is hoping to preserve and share the “space junk” collection. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

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Collection of NASA Apollo Program memorabilia looking for a new home

French journalist Jacques Tiziou left behind thousands of collectors’ items related to space travel. His son is cataloguing the artifacts, and hopes to share them.

7 years ago

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity rocket plane flown into the atmosphere before launching Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Mojave, Calif. Virgin Galactic says its rocket plane has reached space for a second time in a test flight over California on Friday. In addition to two pilots, the spacecraft carried a third crewmember to evaluate the cabin from a passenger perspective. (AP Photo/Matt Hartman)

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Worth the Wait for Weightlessness?

Beth Moses, Astronaut Trainer for Virgin Galactic, flew aboard its latest test flight as its first passenger. The VSS Unity flew into spa ...

Air Date: March 4, 2019

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This undated photo provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, shows the surface of the Mars. Scientists say images of Martian craters taken by European and American space probes show there likely once was a planet-wide system of underground lakes. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)

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Scientists see evidence of underground lakes system on Mars

Scientists say images of craters taken by European and American space probes show there likely once was a planet-wide system of underground lakes on Mars.

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