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Pale Blue Dot
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‘Project Blue’ Aims To Take The First Snapshot Of A Twin Earth

By Mary Beth Griggs

Orbital ATK’s Rocket Set To Finally Fly Again After 2014 Explosion [Updated]
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Orbital ATK’s Rocket Set To Finally Fly Again After 2014 Explosion [Updated]

By Sarah Fecht

How The Noise Of Big Rockets Breaks Apart Buildings
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How The Noise Of Big Rockets Breaks Apart Buildings

By Amy Shira Teitel

Researchers Restored A Colony Of Microbes In The Gut
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Researchers Restored A Colony Of Microbes In The Gut

By Ian Graber-Stiehl

Maybe Alien Life Runs On Cosmic Rays Instead Of Sunlight
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Maybe Alien Life Runs On Cosmic Rays Instead Of Sunlight

By Sarah Fecht

Kuaizhou 1 China Expace space Launch
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China’s Private Space Industry Prepares To Compete With Spacex And Blue Origin

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Hurricane Matthew
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Space Station Watches As Hurricane Matthew Closes In On Florida

By Kate Baggaley

Peek At The James Webb Telescope Before It Peers Into Forming Galaxies
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Peek At The James Webb Telescope Before It Peers Into Forming Galaxies

By Samantha Cole

Teens Have An Edge When Learning From Rewards
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Teens Have An Edge When Learning From Rewards

By Kate Baggaley

What It’s Like To Spacewalk For The First Time
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What It’s Like To Spacewalk For The First Time

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China Plans A Space Plane For Tourists
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China Plans A Space Plane For Tourists

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Spaceport America’s Open House Was A Tribute To Empty Space
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Spaceport America’s Open House Was A Tribute To Empty Space

By Kelsey D. Atherton

SpaceX Investigating Possible Sabotage Of Exploded Rocket
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SpaceX Investigating Possible Sabotage Of Exploded Rocket

By Sarah Fecht

We’re About To Get Regional Forecasts For Solar Storms
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We’re About To Get Regional Forecasts For Solar Storms

By Mary Beth Griggs

Two N-1 rockets on launch pads
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This Rocket Failed to Put Soviets on the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

The World’s Largest LEGO Structure Is A Car Ad
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The World’s Largest LEGO Structure Is A Car Ad

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Metals From Bird Feathers May Help Reconstruct Dinosaur Colors
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Metals From Bird Feathers May Help Reconstruct Dinosaur Colors

By Kate Baggaley

Rosetta
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A Look Back At Rosetta’s Best Moments

By Kate Baggaley

How Humans Evolved To Hurt Each Other
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How Humans Evolved To Hurt Each Other

By Samantha Cole

Murray Buttes
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Marsquakes Could Be The Key To Life On Mars

By Samantha Cole

Elon Musk’s Plan To Colonize Mars Gives Us The Sci-Fi Future We Crave
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Elon Musk’s Plan To Colonize Mars Gives Us The Sci-Fi Future We Crave

By Sarah Fecht

How to Watch Elon Musk’s Possibly Crazy Plan to Get Us to Mars
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How to Watch Elon Musk’s Possibly Crazy Plan to Get Us to Mars

By Samantha Cole

Under The Microscope, Food Has A Big Personality
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Under The Microscope, Food Has A Big Personality

By Nadia Berenstein

Surface of Mercury
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Photos Suggest Mercury Is Actively Shrinking

By Mary Beth Griggs

Travel Back In Time With These Amazing Historical GIFs
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Travel Back In Time With These Amazing Historical GIFs

By Samantha Cole

Illustration of SpaceX 'Red Dragon' craft on Mars
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4 Questions About Elon Musk’s Plan To Colonize Mars

By Sarah Fecht

This Shape-Shifting Gel Can Move Itself Over Time
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This Shape-Shifting Gel Can Move Itself Over Time

By Mary Beth Griggs

This Is How Orion Astronauts Might Protect Themselves From Radiation Storms
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This Is How Orion Astronauts Might Protect Themselves From Radiation Storms

By Mary Beth Griggs

stomach fat
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Obesity Might Not Have Evolved To Protect Us From Starvation

By Claire Maldarelli

Coffee
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Used Coffee Grounds Can Clean Contaminated Water

By Knvul Sheikh

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Commits $3 Billion To Cure All Diseases
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Commits $3 Billion To Cure All Diseases

By Sara Chodosh

The Man Who Solves The Mysteries Of Evolution
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The Man Who Solves The Mysteries Of Evolution

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

For Vikings, Murder Was A Family Affair
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For Vikings, Murder Was A Family Affair

By Michael Koziol

Booster Fire
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See NASA’s SLS Booster Test Fire In Slow Motion

By Mary Beth Griggs

china space race
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China’s Race To Space Domination

By Clay Dillow, Jeffrey Lin, and P.W. Singer

Watch Grace Potter’s New Music Video About The Women Of NASA
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Watch Grace Potter’s New Music Video About The Women Of NASA

By Samantha Cole

Where Elon Musk’s Interplanetary Transporter Should Go Next
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Where Elon Musk’s Interplanetary Transporter Should Go Next

By Sarah Fecht

How NASA Goes to Space Without Leaving the Earth
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How NASA Goes to Space Without Leaving the Earth

By Amy Shira Teitel

SpaceX Explosion
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Could SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Really Launch Again By November?

By Sarah Fecht

Cards Against Humanity scholarship seeks to send women in STEM to college
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Cards Against Humanity scholarship seeks to send women in STEM to college

By Maki Naro

Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-Making Skills
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Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-Making Skills

By Sara Chodosh

3D Model of *Psittacosaurus*
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Dog-Sized Dinosaur Had Ideal Camouflage For Forests

By Mary Beth Griggs

Many Of The Eye’s Color-Sensing Cells Code For…Whiteness
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Many Of The Eye’s Color-Sensing Cells Code For…Whiteness

By Kate Baggaley

How To Make A Baby Without An Egg
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How To Make A Baby Without An Egg

By Sara Chodosh

Science Press Site ‘EurekAlert!’ Offline After Being Hacked
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Science Press Site ‘EurekAlert!’ Offline After Being Hacked

By Mary Beth Griggs

Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago
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Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers
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The Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Astronomers Are Watching A Star Evolve In Real Time
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Astronomers Are Watching A Star Evolve In Real Time

By Kate Baggaley

The Woman Who Reimagines How The Brain Works
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The Woman Who Reimagines How The Brain Works

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

New Evidence Shows The Moon Formed From Melted Bits Of Earth
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New Evidence Shows The Moon Formed From Melted Bits Of Earth

By Rebecca Boyle

New Glenn rocket compared to others
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Jeff Bezos’s New Rocket Will Be Bigger Than Elon Musk’s

By Sarah Fecht

The motor driven articulated dummy
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Meet the Creepiest Android NASA Ever Built

By Amy Shira Teitel

Proteins In Your Hair Could Uniquely Identify You At A Crime Scene
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Proteins In Your Hair Could Uniquely Identify You At A Crime Scene

By Knvul Sheikh

You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s
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You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s

By Sarah Fecht

Hundreds Of Black Holes May Nestle Together In Our Galaxy
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Hundreds Of Black Holes May Nestle Together In Our Galaxy

By Charles Q. Choi

OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid
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OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid

By Samantha Cole

This Battery-Free Generator Is Made From Fish Scales
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This Battery-Free Generator Is Made From Fish Scales

By Kate Baggaley

Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket
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Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket

By Sarah Fecht

The Woman Who Predicts Septic Shock And Other Health Outcomes
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The Woman Who Predicts Septic Shock And Other Health Outcomes

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willard

The Man Whose Models Revealed A Possible Ninth Planet In Our Solar System
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The Man Whose Models Revealed A Possible Ninth Planet In Our Solar System

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Digitizing The Oceans In Real Time
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Digitizing The Oceans In Real Time

By Ian Graber-Stiehl

The Brilliant 10 Of 2016
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The Brilliant 10 Of 2016

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

The Science Of Grilling: How Heat Transforms Steak
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The Science Of Grilling: How Heat Transforms Steak

By Jamie Leventhal

The Science Of Grilling: What Makes Steaks Juicy?
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The Science Of Grilling: What Makes Steaks Juicy?

By Jamie Leventhal

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