Space
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NASA Invites You to Send a Message to Mars
How would you like to send your name and a haiku straight to the Red Planet? Who’s it for? Who’s…
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Disease From Space?
Chandra Wickramasinghe is no stranger to extraordinary claims: he, along with Fred Hoyle, worked on the original panspermia hypothesis, the…
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Asteroid 2012 DA14: Too Close For Comfort?
On February 15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will glide past Earth, coming within 27,700 km (or 17,200 miles), closer than…
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A Crash Course In Galaxy Collisions
Don’t make any plans for about four billion years from now. That’s when our distant neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, will…
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Photo: A Splendor Seldom Seen
Yesterday, CICLOPS (that’s Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations) released a fascinating new image of Saturn titled “A Splendor Seldom…
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NASA’s GRAIL Probes Prepare For Crash Landing
So, do you remember when I wrote about NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, aka the GRAIL mission? Back in…
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Scientists Puzzled By Mysterious Rock Formation On Mars
Scientists aren’t sure what to make of these peculiar rock formations on the surface of Mars, seen above in an…
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