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IKAROS Solar-Sail Craft Successfully Steers With Strategically Placed LCDs, Using No Propellant
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IKAROS Solar-Sail Craft Successfully Steers With Strategically Placed LCDs, Using No Propellant

By Clay Dillow

Levitating Satellites into Odd Orbits Can Make More Room in Space
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Levitating Satellites into Odd Orbits Can Make More Room in Space

By Rebecca Boyle

Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?
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Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?

By Rebecca Boyle

Hubble Spots Hypervelocity Star Speeding From the Milky Way’s Center at 1.6 Million MPH
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Hubble Spots Hypervelocity Star Speeding From the Milky Way’s Center at 1.6 Million MPH

By Clay Dillow

How Close Could a Person Get to the Sun and Survive?
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How Close Could a Person Get to the Sun and Survive?

By Alessandra Calderin

Loaner NASA Rover Helps Solve Cold Murder Case in California
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Loaner NASA Rover Helps Solve Cold Murder Case in California

By Clay Dillow

After 12,000 Days in Space, Voyager 1 Heads for the Solar System Boundary
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After 12,000 Days in Space, Voyager 1 Heads for the Solar System Boundary

By Laurie J. Schmidt

Juno Probe, Built to Study Jupiter’s Radiation Belt, Gets A Titanium Suit of Interplanetary Armor
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Juno Probe, Built to Study Jupiter’s Radiation Belt, Gets A Titanium Suit of Interplanetary Armor

By Rebecca Boyle

Five Ideas To Fight Space Junk
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Five Ideas To Fight Space Junk

By David Kushner

Satellite Creates First Global Gravity Map of Earth
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Satellite Creates First Global Gravity Map of Earth

By Rebecca Boyle

Scientists Strengthen Their Case That A Martian Meteorite Contains Signs Of Life
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Scientists Strengthen Their Case That A Martian Meteorite Contains Signs Of Life

By Jason Daley

NASA Tests New GPS-Based Tsunami Prediction System
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NASA Tests New GPS-Based Tsunami Prediction System

By Laurie J. Schmidt

Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap
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Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap

By Clay Dillow

Evidence Shows the Moon May Hold 100 Times More Water Than Previously Thought
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Evidence Shows the Moon May Hold 100 Times More Water Than Previously Thought

By Clay Dillow

Why Isn’t the Hubble Space Telescope Just Attached to the International Space Station?
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Why Isn’t the Hubble Space Telescope Just Attached to the International Space Station?

By Alessandra Calderin

Did a Lunar Art Caper Put The First Museum on the Moon in 1969?
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Did a Lunar Art Caper Put The First Museum on the Moon in 1969?

By Clay Dillow

Rover Challenge 2010: University Teams Test Mars Rovers in Utah Desert
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Rover Challenge 2010: University Teams Test Mars Rovers in Utah Desert

By Laurie J. Schmidt

Pentagon: A Space Junk Collision Could Set Off Catastrophic Chain Reaction, Disable Earth Communications
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Pentagon: A Space Junk Collision Could Set Off Catastrophic Chain Reaction, Disable Earth Communications

By Clay Dillow

Archive Gallery: A Century of Aviation, From the Wright Brothers to Stealth
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Archive Gallery: A Century of Aviation, From the Wright Brothers to Stealth

By Denise Ngo

Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots
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Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots

By Clay Dillow

‘Double-Bubble’ Airliners Designed by MIT for NASA Could Trim Fuel Consumption by 70 Percent
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‘Double-Bubble’ Airliners Designed by MIT for NASA Could Trim Fuel Consumption by 70 Percent

By Clay Dillow

While Hiding Behind the Sun, Jupiter Loses One of its Belts
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While Hiding Behind the Sun, Jupiter Loses One of its Belts

By Clay Dillow

Could an Asteroid Impact Knock the Moon into the Earth?
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Could an Asteroid Impact Knock the Moon into the Earth?

By Sandeep Ravindran

Aliens Exist, and We Should Avoid Them At All Costs, Says Stephen Hawking
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Aliens Exist, and We Should Avoid Them At All Costs, Says Stephen Hawking

By Rebecca Boyle

Lucifer Instrument Helps Astronomers See Through Darkness to Most Distant Observable Objects
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Lucifer Instrument Helps Astronomers See Through Darkness to Most Distant Observable Objects

By Rebecca Boyle

Complex Orbital Planning Will Keep Cassini Flying Seven Extra Years on Tiny Remaining Fuel Supply
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Complex Orbital Planning Will Keep Cassini Flying Seven Extra Years on Tiny Remaining Fuel Supply

By Clay Dillow

Why Can’t Planes Fly Through Volcanic Ash? NASA Found Out the Hard Way
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Why Can’t Planes Fly Through Volcanic Ash? NASA Found Out the Hard Way

By Clay Dillow

This Chip Can Sift Martian Soil For Alien DNA
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This Chip Can Sift Martian Soil For Alien DNA

By Lana Birbrair

Mystery Object in Nearby Galaxy Stumps Scientists, Might Be Local Micro-Quasar, Might Not
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Mystery Object in Nearby Galaxy Stumps Scientists, Might Be Local Micro-Quasar, Might Not

By Clay Dillow

Space Hotel Pioneer Bigelow Envisions Inflatable Moon Bases
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Space Hotel Pioneer Bigelow Envisions Inflatable Moon Bases

By Jeremy Hsu

Skydiving From Space
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Skydiving From Space

By Bjorn Carey

To Crack the Mystery of the Hexagon on Saturn, Researchers Model it in Water
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To Crack the Mystery of the Hexagon on Saturn, Researchers Model it in Water

By Jeremy Hsu

New Evidence that Mysterious Dark Force From Outside Tugs at Our Universe
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New Evidence that Mysterious Dark Force From Outside Tugs at Our Universe

By Stuart Fox

The Homemade Lunar Lander
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The Homemade Lunar Lander

By Corey Binns

A Naked Engine For Cleaner Flights
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A Naked Engine For Cleaner Flights

By Eric Adams

Bad News for Terraformers: Periodic Bursts Of Solar Radiation Destroy The Martian Atmosphere
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Bad News for Terraformers: Periodic Bursts Of Solar Radiation Destroy The Martian Atmosphere

By Stuart Fox

Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Likely Collision Course With Our Solar System
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Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Likely Collision Course With Our Solar System

By Jeremy Hsu

NASA Finds Millions of Tons of Water Ice in Lunar Craters, No Moon Bombing Necessary
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NASA Finds Millions of Tons of Water Ice in Lunar Craters, No Moon Bombing Necessary

By Clay Dillow

NASA’s WISE Space Telescope Captures Beauty Shot of Andromeda Galaxy
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NASA’s WISE Space Telescope Captures Beauty Shot of Andromeda Galaxy

By Jeremy Hsu

Stray Hydrogen Atoms Become Deadly for Starships Traveling At Light Speed
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Stray Hydrogen Atoms Become Deadly for Starships Traveling At Light Speed

By Jeremy Hsu

Suitcase Nukes
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The World’s Scariest Science: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Jason Daley

Superinsulating Aerogels Arrive on Home Insulation Market At Last
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Superinsulating Aerogels Arrive on Home Insulation Market At Last

By Stuart Fox

Say Hello to Robonaut2, NASA’s Android Space Explorer of the Future
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Say Hello to Robonaut2, NASA’s Android Space Explorer of the Future

By Stuart Fox

Carbon Crystals Harder Than Diamond Found In Finnish Meteorite
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Carbon Crystals Harder Than Diamond Found In Finnish Meteorite

By Stuart Fox

NASA’s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
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NASA’s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft

By Clay Dillow

Neptune and Uranus May Have Oceans of Liquid Diamond
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Neptune and Uranus May Have Oceans of Liquid Diamond

By Jeremy Hsu

NASA Awards Contract for a Methane-Powered Balloon to Explore Saturn’s Moon
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NASA Awards Contract for a Methane-Powered Balloon to Explore Saturn’s Moon

By Jeremy Hsu

A Cannon for Shooting Supplies into Space
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A Cannon for Shooting Supplies into Space

By Amina Elahi

Class of 2009
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Greetings From Future Camp

By Josh Dean

Inside Sofia, NASA’s Airplane-Mounted Telescope
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Inside Sofia, NASA’s Airplane-Mounted Telescope

By Rebecca Boyle

Temperatures 10,000 Times Hotter Than Sun Remain Imprinted on Ancient Supernova Remnant
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Temperatures 10,000 Times Hotter Than Sun Remain Imprinted on Ancient Supernova Remnant

By Jeremy Hsu

Moon Formation In The Late Hadean Period
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NASA Scientists Classify the Time Before Earth Existed: the Chaotian Era

By Stuart Fox

Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact
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Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact

By Stuart Fox

Nearby T Pyxidis Supernova Could Destroy Life on Earth
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Nearby T Pyxidis Supernova Could Destroy Life on Earth

By Clay Dillow

Video: Simulation Renders Entire Known Universe
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Video: Simulation Renders Entire Known Universe

By Stuart Fox

FYI: Would a Helium-Filled Balloon Float on the Moon?
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FYI: Would a Helium-Filled Balloon Float on the Moon?

By Carina Storrs

Cassini Sends First Full Images of Saturn’s Mysterious Giant Hexagon
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Cassini Sends First Full Images of Saturn’s Mysterious Giant Hexagon

By Jeremy Hsu

Mysterious Light Display Leaves Norwegians and Astronomers Puzzled
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Mysterious Light Display Leaves Norwegians and Astronomers Puzzled

By Jeremy Hsu

Top Cat
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In 2010, The Civilian Space Industry Finally Takes Off

By Sam Howe Verhovek

Astronomers Watch Most Massive Star Ever Go Supernova
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Astronomers Watch Most Massive Star Ever Go Supernova

By Jeremy Hsu

Butterflies Hatch in Space for The First Time
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Butterflies Hatch in Space for The First Time

By Clay Dillow

Superconducting Magnetic Heat Shield Could Protect Spacecraft During Reentry
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Superconducting Magnetic Heat Shield Could Protect Spacecraft During Reentry

By Jeremy Hsu

NASA Robotic Rocket Plane To Survey Martian Surface
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NASA Robotic Rocket Plane To Survey Martian Surface

By Stuart Fox

NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids
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NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids

By Jeremy Hsu

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