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

By Shaunacy Ferro

Near-Miss Asteroid Highlights Earth’s Risk Of A Nuke-Sized Collision
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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
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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
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Bacteria In Earth’s Atmosphere May Affect Cloud Formation And Climate

By Rebecca Boyle

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

By Rose Pastore

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

By Emily Elert

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

By Clay Dillow

The Scene at NASA’s Mars Rover Landing Watch: Peanuts, Playoff Beards and Other Curiosities
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Six Ways Investments in Space are Paying Technology Dividends on Earth

By Clay Dillow

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

By Clay Dillow

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

By Ben Austen

The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich
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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
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Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon

By Clay Dillow

The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life
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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
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How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

By Rebecca Boyle

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

By Paul Adams

Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
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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
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Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

By Clay Dillow

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

By Denise Ngo

Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts
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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
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Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two

By Clay Dillow

This Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw
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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
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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
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New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X

By Rebecca Boyle

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

By Lizzie Schiffman

NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit
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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?
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FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station?

By Bjorn Carey

NASA’s Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Don’t Love Arsenic After All, Critics Say
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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
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Budget Cuts And Outsourced Training Could Put NASA’s Astronauts At Risk

By Jim Oberg

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

By Clay Dillow

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

By Denise Ngo

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

By Rebecca Boyle

Inside Astronaut Boot Camp
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Inside Astronaut Boot Camp

By Dawn Stover

NASA’s Escape Pod
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NASA’s Escape Pod

By Dawn Stover

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

By Rebecca Boyle

More NASA Letters
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More NASA Letters

Draw of a anime
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My Mother, the Scientist

By Charles Hirshberg