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How We’re Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us

How We’re Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us How We’re Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us

By James Vlahos

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Now A Top Candidate For Life

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Now A Top Candidate For Life Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Now A Top Candidate For Life

By Francie Diep

NASA Could’ve Prevented The Near-Drowning Of An Astronaut

NASA Could’ve Prevented The Near-Drowning Of An Astronaut NASA Could’ve Prevented The Near-Drowning Of An Astronaut

By Colin Lecher

Video: How Mars Looked 4 Billion Years Ago

Video: How Mars Looked 4 Billion Years Ago Video: How Mars Looked 4 Billion Years Ago

By Shaunacy Ferro

Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter

Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter

By Corey S. Powell

What Will It Take To Find Life Elsewhere In The Universe?

What Will It Take To Find Life Elsewhere In The Universe? What Will It Take To Find Life Elsewhere In The Universe?

By Lee Billings

FYI: Can Humans Survive In A Completely Self-Sufficient Closed Environment?

FYI: Can Humans Survive In A Completely Self-Sufficient Closed Environment? FYI: Can Humans Survive In A Completely Self-Sufficient Closed Environment?

By Ryan Bradley

NASA Scientists Answer Your Burning Questions About Voyager 1

NASA Scientists Answer Your Burning Questions About Voyager 1 NASA Scientists Answer Your Burning Questions About Voyager 1

By Rose Pastore

Neil Armstrong In The Pages Of Popular Science

Neil Armstrong In The Pages Of Popular Science Neil Armstrong In The Pages Of Popular Science

By Rose Pastore

12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration

12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration 12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration

By Colin Lecher

The 10 Worst Places To Live In The Universe

The 10 Worst Places To Live In The Universe The 10 Worst Places To Live In The Universe

By Joey Carmichael and Erin Brodwin

Are Environmental Regulations On Mars Doing More Harm Than Good?

Are Environmental Regulations On Mars Doing More Harm Than Good? Are Environmental Regulations On Mars Doing More Harm Than Good?

By Shaunacy Ferro

What Would Antarctica Look Like If All The Ice Melted? What Would Antarctica Look Like If All The Ice Melted?

By Dan Nosowitz

Meet The NASA Scientist Who’s Reinventing The Wheel

Meet The NASA Scientist Who’s Reinventing The Wheel Meet The NASA Scientist Who’s Reinventing The Wheel

By Brian E. Clark

Deep-Space Engines

Deep-Space Engines Deep-Space Engines

By Konstantin Kakaes

Warp Factor Warp Factor

By Konstantin Kakaes

America’s Best Current Defense Against Asteroids Is…Prayer?

America’s Best Current Defense Against Asteroids Is…Prayer? America’s Best Current Defense Against Asteroids Is…Prayer?

By Shaunacy Ferro

Near-Miss Asteroid Highlights Earth’s Risk Of A Nuke-Sized Collision

Near-Miss Asteroid Highlights Earth’s Risk Of A Nuke-Sized Collision Near-Miss Asteroid Highlights Earth’s Risk Of A Nuke-Sized Collision

By Andrew Rosenblum

Popular Science Q&A: How NASA Selected The 2013 Class Of Astronauts

Popular Science Q&A: How NASA Selected The 2013 Class Of Astronauts Popular Science Q&A: How NASA Selected The 2013 Class Of Astronauts

By Adam Hadhazy

Bacteria In Earth’s Atmosphere May Affect Cloud Formation And Climate

Bacteria In Earth’s Atmosphere May Affect Cloud Formation And Climate Bacteria In Earth’s Atmosphere May Affect Cloud Formation And Climate

By Rebecca Boyle

A History Of Spacesuits, In Pictures

A History Of Spacesuits, In Pictures A History Of Spacesuits, In Pictures

By Shaunacy Ferro

Meet ATHLETE, NASA’s Next Robot Moon Walker

Meet ATHLETE, NASA’s Next Robot Moon Walker Meet ATHLETE, NASA’s Next Robot Moon Walker

By Rose Pastore

NASA Has Spent $20 Billion On Canceled Projects [Infographic]

NASA Has Spent $20 Billion On Canceled Projects [Infographic] NASA Has Spent $20 Billion On Canceled Projects [Infographic]

Curiosity’s Legacy: What This Week’s Successful Landing Means for the Future of Robotic Space Exploration

Curiosity’s Legacy: What This Week’s Successful Landing Means for the Future of Robotic Space Exploration Curiosity’s Legacy: What This Week’s Successful Landing Means for the Future of Robotic Space Exploration

The Scene at NASA’s Mars Rover Landing Watch: Peanuts, Playoff Beards and Other Curiosities

The Scene at NASA’s Mars Rover Landing Watch: Peanuts, Playoff Beards and Other Curiosities The Scene at NASA’s Mars Rover Landing Watch: Peanuts, Playoff Beards and Other Curiosities

By Rebecca Boyle

Why the Mars Rover Curiosity’s Crazy, Complicated Landing Isn’t So Crazy After All

Why the Mars Rover Curiosity’s Crazy, Complicated Landing Isn’t So Crazy After All Why the Mars Rover Curiosity’s Crazy, Complicated Landing Isn’t So Crazy After All

By Rebecca Boyle

The Ten Instruments That Mars Rover Curiosity Will Use to Investigate the Red Planet

The Ten Instruments That Mars Rover Curiosity Will Use to Investigate the Red Planet The Ten Instruments That Mars Rover Curiosity Will Use to Investigate the Red Planet

By Colin Lecher

New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone

New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA Adopts Two Spare Spy Telescopes, Each Maybe More Powerful Than Hubble

NASA Adopts Two Spare Spy Telescopes, Each Maybe More Powerful Than Hubble NASA Adopts Two Spare Spy Telescopes, Each Maybe More Powerful Than Hubble

By Rebecca Boyle

Six Ways Investments in Space are Paying Technology Dividends on Earth

Six Ways Investments in Space are Paying Technology Dividends on Earth Six Ways Investments in Space are Paying Technology Dividends on Earth

The Mars Experiment

The Mars Experiment The Mars Experiment

By Jennifer Abbasi

In the Last Year, Hackers Gained ‘Full Functional Control’ of NASA Networks, Stole the Control Codes for the ISS

In the Last Year, Hackers Gained ‘Full Functional Control’ of NASA Networks, Stole the Control Codes for the ISS In the Last Year, Hackers Gained ‘Full Functional Control’ of NASA Networks, Stole the Control Codes for the ISS

A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds

A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds

The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich

The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon

Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon

The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life

The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life

By Rebecca Boyle

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

By Rebecca Boyle

New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon

New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon

Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea

Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea

By Adam Hadhazy

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight

Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight

Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts

Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts

By Dan Nosowitz

Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two

Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two

This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw

This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA Gravity Experiment Finds Space-Time Vortex Around Earth, Like a Vat of Fourth-Dimensional Molasses

NASA Gravity Experiment Finds Space-Time Vortex Around Earth, Like a Vat of Fourth-Dimensional Molasses NASA Gravity Experiment Finds Space-Time Vortex Around Earth, Like a Vat of Fourth-Dimensional Molasses

By Rebecca Boyle

New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X

New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What Does Space Smell Like?

FYI: What Does Space Smell Like? FYI: What Does Space Smell Like?

By Lizzie Schiffman

NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit

NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit

By Rena Marie Pacella

FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station?

FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station? FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station?

NASA’s Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Don’t Love Arsenic After All, Critics Say

NASA’s Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Don’t Love Arsenic After All, Critics Say NASA’s Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Don’t Love Arsenic After All, Critics Say

By Rebecca Boyle

Budget Cuts And Outsourced Training Could Put NASA’s Astronauts At Risk

Budget Cuts And Outsourced Training Could Put NASA’s Astronauts At Risk Budget Cuts And Outsourced Training Could Put NASA’s Astronauts At Risk

NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather

NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Fantastic Space Colonies

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Fantastic Space Colonies Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Fantastic Space Colonies

New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA

New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA

By Rebecca Boyle

Inside Astronaut Boot Camp

Inside Astronaut Boot Camp Inside Astronaut Boot Camp

NASA’s Escape Pod

NASA’s Escape Pod NASA’s Escape Pod

Write Your Name on the Moon

Write Your Name on the Moon Write Your Name on the Moon

By Rebecca Boyle

More NASA Letters

More NASA Letters More NASA Letters

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My Mother, the Scientist My Mother, the Scientist

By Charles Hirshberg