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Why Mining an Asteroid for Water and Precious Metals Isn’t as Crazy as it Sounds

By Clay Dillow

Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?
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Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: Where Is The Center of the Universe?
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FYI: Where Is The Center of the Universe?

By Rose Pastore

The Viking Mars Missions May Have Discovered Life in 1976
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The Viking Mars Missions May Have Discovered Life in 1976

By Clay Dillow

Q+A: SpaceX Engineer Garrett Reisman on Building the World’s Safest Spacecraft
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Q+A: SpaceX Engineer Garrett Reisman on Building the World’s Safest Spacecraft

By Clay Dillow

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

How Well Does Scotch Age in Zero Gravity? A Distiller Launches Some to Find Out
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How Well Does Scotch Age in Zero Gravity? A Distiller Launches Some to Find Out

By Paul Adams

How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast
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How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast

By Clay Dillow

The Solar System With the Most Planets Is Now … HD 10180
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The Solar System With the Most Planets Is Now … HD 10180

By Clay Dillow

Why Turning Mercury Into a Dyson Sphere to Harvest Solar Energy Is Not Worth It
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Why Turning Mercury Into a Dyson Sphere to Harvest Solar Energy Is Not Worth It

By Rebecca Boyle

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The New Planetary Habitability Index

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Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built
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Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built

By Rebecca Boyle

“Wonders of the Universe” App Is Your Space Textbook of the Future
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“Wonders of the Universe” App Is Your Space Textbook of the Future

By Dan Nosowitz

Is It Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?
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Is It Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: A Swirling Visualization of the Ocean’s Currents
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Video: A Swirling Visualization of the Ocean’s Currents

By Clay Dillow

Mercury Has a Liquid Core, and Other New Surprises From the Innermost Planet
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Mercury Has a Liquid Core, and Other New Surprises From the Innermost Planet

By Rebecca Boyle

Opportunity Snaps a Self-Portrait As It Preps for the Martian Winter
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Opportunity Snaps a Self-Portrait As It Preps for the Martian Winter

By Clay Dillow

A Train to Space: All Aboard the 20,000-Mile-Per-Hour Low-Earth-Orbit Express
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A Train to Space: All Aboard the 20,000-Mile-Per-Hour Low-Earth-Orbit Express

By Clay Dillow

The Mars Experiment
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The Mars Experiment

By Jennifer Abbasi

Mars Watch Face
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How Do You Tell Time On Mars?

By Rebecca Boyle

Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence
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Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence

By Rebecca Boyle

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

Remote Aliens Could Detect Life On Earth By Looking At the Moon
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Remote Aliens Could Detect Life On Earth By Looking At the Moon

By Rebecca Boyle

PopSci Talks To Neil deGrasse Tyson About Politics, New Frontiers, and Science Evangelism
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PopSci Talks To Neil deGrasse Tyson About Politics, New Frontiers, and Science Evangelism

By Rebecca Boyle

Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040

By Clay Dillow

The Six Places on Earth That Most Resemble Other Planets
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The Six Places on Earth That Most Resemble Other Planets

By Katharine Gammon

Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator By 2050
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Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator By 2050

By Rebecca Boyle

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

How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space
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How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space

By Jacob Ward

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

An Aerial Drone That Could Recon the Skies Over Titan
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An Aerial Drone That Could Recon the Skies Over Titan

By Clay Dillow

On Average, Every Star Has At Least One Planet, New Analysis Shows
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On Average, Every Star Has At Least One Planet, New Analysis Shows

By Rebecca Boyle

Newly Discovered “Fried” Planets Are Smallest Ever
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Newly Discovered “Fried” Planets Are Smallest Ever

By Rebecca Boyle

A Rare Final Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis
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A Rare Final Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis

By Robert Z. Pearlman – CollectSPACE

How to Mine an Asteroid
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How to Mine an Asteroid

By Andrew Rosenblum

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

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle
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Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: A Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Captures Individual Photons Moving Through Space
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Video: A Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Captures Individual Photons Moving Through Space

By Clay Dillow

Is Vesta Actually a Planet Posing as an Asteroid?
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Is Vesta Actually a Planet Posing as an Asteroid?

By Clay Dillow

A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes
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A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes

By Rebecca Boyle

Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns
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Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns

By Rebecca Boyle

Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time
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Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA Commissions a Laundry Machine for the International Space Station
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NASA Commissions a Laundry Machine for the International Space Station

By Clay Dillow

Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets
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Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets

By Rebecca Boyle

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

Fashioning Apollo: What to Wear Into the Hostile Realms of Space
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Fashioning Apollo: What to Wear Into the Hostile Realms of Space

By Ryan Bradley

New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It
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New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It

By Rebecca Boyle

To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets
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To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets

By Clay Dillow

Hopper, What Are You Working on Today?
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Hopper, What Are You Working on Today?

By Clay Dillow

Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly
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Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly

By Rebecca Boyle

Ground-Based Laser Cannon to Turn Space Debris into Self-Powered Flaming De-Orbiting Rockets
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Ground-Based Laser Cannon to Turn Space Debris into Self-Powered Flaming De-Orbiting Rockets

By Clay Dillow

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

Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble
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Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble

By Clay Dillow

Birth of Youngest Planet Ever Seen Is Witnessed With Telescopic Trick
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Birth of Youngest Planet Ever Seen Is Witnessed With Telescopic Trick

By Rebecca Boyle

The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update
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The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update

By Clay Dillow

Searching for Life in All the Right Places
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Searching for Life in All the Right Places

By Jennifer Abbasi

The Search for Alien Life Is On
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The Search for Alien Life Is On

By Jennifer Abbasi

Video: A Homemade Rocket Soars 121,000 Feet in 92 Seconds
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Video: A Homemade Rocket Soars 121,000 Feet in 92 Seconds

By Clay Dillow

New Robot Arm Uses Static Cling to Grab Objects in Zero-G, From Satellites to Space Junk
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New Robot Arm Uses Static Cling to Grab Objects in Zero-G, From Satellites to Space Junk

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA’s Falling UARS Satellite Found in Remote South Pacific
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NASA’s Falling UARS Satellite Found in Remote South Pacific

By Clay Dillow

Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth Gas Giant in Our Solar System
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Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth Gas Giant in Our Solar System

By Sean Kane

Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine
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Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine

By John Mahoney and Katie Peek

All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says
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All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says

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

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