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Building A Space Base, Part 1: Why Mine On The Moon Or An Asteroid?
So can we get off of Earth already and start building bases on the Moon or an asteroid? As highlighted…
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Why Watch ESA Rosetta’s Movie ‘Ambition’? Because We Want to Know What is Possible
NASA has taken on space missions that have taken years to reach their destination; they have more than a dozen…
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SpaceX Dragon Departs Space Station after Delivering Slew of Science and Returns with Ocean Splashdown
Concluding a busy five week mission, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-4 commercial cargo ship departed the International Space Station (ISS) this…
Google Exec Hands Silicon Valley the Stratospheric Jump Record
Just a little over two years since Felix Baumgartner broke USAF Colonel Joseph Kittinger's stratospheric jump record, Alan Eustace from…
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Making Cubesats do Astronomy
One doesn't take two cubesats and rub them together to make static electricity. Rather, you send them on a brief space voyage…
Comet Siding Spring Was Bleeding Hydrogen As It Sped By Mars
As Comet Siding Spring passed close by Mars on Sunday (Oct. 19), NASA's newest Mars spacecraft took a time-out from…
Stinky! Rosetta’s Comet Smells Like Rotten Eggs And Ammonia
While you can't smell in space -- there is no medium to carry the molecules, the same reason you can't…
Videos: From Space, Lightning Looks Like Creepy White Blobs
Standing on the ground, we're used to seeing the bolts and flashes of lightning during epic thunderstorms. But how would…
Rosetta’s Comet Springs Spectacular Leaks As It Gets Closer To The Sun
Jet! The comet that the Rosetta spacecraft is visiting is shedding more dust as machine and Solar System body get…
The Physics Behind “Interstellar’s” Visual Effects Was So Good, it Led to a Scientific Discovery
While he was working on the film Interstellar, executive producer Kip Thorne was tasked with creating the black hole that…